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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently, I revisited reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, realizing that this time, I received some gems which I missed during my first reading 10+ years ago. The chapter on "The Inner Body" [...]

In this day and age, these activities may sound familiar to you... Examples include incessant thinking, thinking, thinking;"following" social media mindlessly; binge watching on Netflix (I've been there); saying "Yes" to everybody's requests of you; [...]