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Defenses: Walls can turn into barriers for couples
Clients in couples therapy who progress well are those who are able to get out of the "I'm right. You're wrong" mindset, and who take accountability for their respective part in the dynamic. One of [...]
To Relax in Your Body, Let’s Start with Grounding
My Tai Chi practice has taught me a thing or two about grounding. Our feet have to be rooted, and if the force is coming from outside of us, we are ready to change positions [...]
Expanding our Understanding of Fear
One of the common themes in the therapy room is our reaction to fear and our preconceptions of what it means. We feel the discomfort and we want to run from it, or we project, [...]
Rest is to be practiced daily
In Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey, she notes that "rest must be practiced daily until it becomes our foundation." She adds that many of us have been programmed to be "productive," to be part [...]
Which is the right path?
Recently, I came upon a reading from a small book I purchased years ago, entitled The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self by Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD. One of my favourite chapters in the [...]
Focusing and Jazz Music
I just read this beautiful article featured in the June 2023 newsletter by the International Focusing Institute, where the author Karen Carmeli shares the correlation of jazz music and focusing-oriented therapy (the journey of exploring [...]