I've been seeing a trend... whenever I post anything around children being mistreated or adult chronic illness that sets in due to this mistreatment, people perk up and share those posts. Posts like: Anger as Medicine: How to Cure Self-Sabotaging Behaviours An Epidemic of Chronic Illness: How [...]
Anger. What is it? Pure and simple anger is an emotion. It’s an essential, high-energy emotion that’s been getting a bad rap for way too long. When I speak and teach around this topic, the first thought people have is: “Well, we can’t go around being savages and slay [...]
“People diagnosed with cancer or autoimmune disease, with chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, or with potentially debilitating neurological conditions, are often enjoined to relax, to think positively, to lower their stress levels. All that is good advice, but impossible to carry out if one of the major sources is [...]
(I wrote this in the Fall of 2015 shortly after the attacks in Paris, France. But this of course applies to all acts of violence no matter how big or small.) In light of all worldly events that occur out of humans ‘doing’, I wanted to write [...]
There has only been one time that I have ever purchased something other than a beverage or pastry while sitting in a Starbucks. It was late winter of 2011 and I was hanging out in a Starbucks (in Bellevue, Washington of all places!) and on an impulse, I [...]
. I was just listening to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those non-canucks… ), and heard an RCMP officer saying that it’s not ‘natural’ for a human being to kill. This is so, so, NOT accurate. Let me explain. Example: 1) If a mother was to witness her [...]
Could Frustration Be The New Fear? Is fear something that you can sit with, and be with, and ponder? Do you say to yourself, "I have so much fear around 'xyz' and I have to figure out how to move forward"? I'd love to suggest that maybe semantics are [...]
Success stories come in many shapes and sizes. I could write an entire book about this specific story, but I’ll start with this... At this time in my career, it was 2008 and I was just beginning to learn Somatic Experiencing, a body-based method of helping resolve traumatic [...]
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