Insights
Reflections, essays, and resources from the practice — on mindfulness, couples, men’s mental health, parenting, and the patterns that shape our lives.
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
The end of summer always sneaks up on us too quickly. It seems that one minute we are enjoying quality times with our family and friends and the next minute we are getting ready to jump back into one of the busiest times of the year. While “end of summer” might sound depressing, I have
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
“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
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
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
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;
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
Spot and address the warning signs of a relationship that’s in trouble With the summer months approaching, it might not seem like the time to bring up unromantic statistics. But the fact remains that at least half of all couples will ultimately go their separate ways. What drives couples to break up may surprise you.
What would happen if you let yourself simply be human? Or what if, when you notice you are less than perfect, you are as kind to yourself as you are to others? The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, written by Christopher K. Germer is one of the best Mindfulness books I’ve come across in a while.