Healthy and Inspired Living
It usually happens in the first session with a new client. At some point in exploring why they’re coming to therapy, ‘coping skills’ will come up, typically as something the client lacks, or has a desire to possess more of, or wants to effect a trade-up in – “I need better coping skills.” “Coping skills?… [Read Full Story]
Have you met your saboteurs? I’m not talking about the spouse who brings home your favourite dessert to celebrate your sticking to a meal plan, or the friend who compliments your weight training achievements with “you’re really getting cut – does it bother you that people will start to think you look like a man?”… [Read Full Story]
Although you might enjoy therapy – who wouldn’t like having someone’s undivided attention and invitation to talk about themselves without need for reciprocation – do you need therapy? While deciding the answer to that question is an inside job each of us has to do for ourselves, if someone were asking me to answer it… [Read Full Story]
Although the question of whether we are becoming a more depressed society or are simply getting better at identifying and acknowledging depression is open for debate, what’s clear is that the rate of prescription of anti-depressant medications has dramatically increased since their introduction into the market place 50 years ago. Today, there are over 30… [Read Full Story]
Since we’re living in worrisome times – if you don’t believe me, tune in to CNN – it seems that learning how to worry well would be a useful skill to master. How do you worry? Are you someone who replays past conversations or events over and over again, going through in detail what you… [Read Full Story]
How can you tell if the low mood you’re experiencing is a sign of clinical depression, or if you are simply unhappy with your current lot in life? Although it can be hard to differentiate between these two mood states, one telling difference is that someone who is unhappy can generally identify a few attainable… [Read Full Story]
A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a client I’d been seeing for a while, listening as she described feeling frustrated that she wasn’t following through with her intentions as well as she wanted to. “It sounds like you’re quite a perfectionist in the standards you set for yourself,” I offered. “Oh… [Read Full Story]
Dr. John Gottman, a marriage researcher based in Seattle, WA, has studied what he calls the “masters and disasters” of marriage since 1973. With an ever-growing database of research subjects – now numbering over 2500 couples – Dr. Gottman believes he has decoded the factors that make a marriage fail or succeed. In their “marriage… [Read Full Story]
Anxiety is one of the most commonly experienced mental health concerns, and can take many forms such as the following: Panic Attacks Generalized Anxiety (persistent unfounded feelings of dread and worry) Phobia of certain objects or situations Social Anxiety (intense fear and discomfort in social contexts) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (having persistent anxiety following the… [Read Full Story]
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