Autobiography in Five Chapters
There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk: Autobiography In Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson Chapter I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost … I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. Chapter II I…Read more
Finding A Therapist For Your Teenager
Parenting can almost feel like a balancing act at times, juggling between the dangers of being overly authoritarian or too relaxed. One of the biggest challenges that you may ever come up against as a parents is deciding on whether or not your teenager or “twenty something” needs therapy. “Forcing” your child to go for…Read more
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
“Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine…” You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your…Read more
Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
Damon Winter/The New York Times “So many people have begged me to come forward, and I just thought — well, I have to do this. I owe it to them. I cannot die a coward,” said Marsha M. Linehan, a psychologist at the University of Washington. HARTFORD — Are you one of us? The patient…Read more
Multi-Generational Trauma and Tobique First Nation
If you ever thought that getting access to a psychiatrist is difficult in Toronto, you should try spending a couple days on the Tobique First Nation reserve in New Brunswick. The addiction counselors and children, family and youth workers I met there were full of heart and spirit and were fearless when it came to…Read more
