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
The 12 Worst Relationship Mindsets: Which Are YOU Guilty Of?
By Robert Leahy, Ph.D., Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City In cognitive therapy we focus on the way that you think about things. When we are distressed, we have automatic thoughts — that is, thoughts that come to us spontaneously, seem true and generally go unexamined. Sometimes your thoughts are accurate;…Read more
Is addiction a disease?
Margaret Wente Globe and Mail, Tuesday May 17, 2011 I’ve known a lot of addicts in my life – some of them all too well. Some were hooked on booze, some on cigarettes, a few on pot and one or two on harder stuff. Sometimes, their destructive behaviour wrecked marriages and careers, and occasionally it…Read more
