Wishing For Acceptance In Your Life: The First Step To Change
I bought a pair of shoes a little while ago. They’re red. They’re great. They were the last pair in the shop, my size and on sale. Perfect. Well, not quite, actually, because they pinched a bit when...
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You Are Not Your Thoughts: A Personal Philosophy Of Mind
I have a love-hate relationship with one of the major therapies endorsed by psychology today: cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Both as a therapist, and as a client, I know it can work. It can...
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Feel Like You Don’t Fit In? Learning To Celebrate Your Secret Self
Sometimes it’s hard not to feel like an outsider. Like you don’t quite fit in. Maybe you’re carrying a certain sadness that sets you apart from the places that other people seem to inhabit right now....
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The Season Of Giving (Yourself A Break)
Yep, it’s that time of year already – again. Welcome to the season that packs so much into itself: The “silly season” The season of goodwill Of giving and receiving Of remembering or maybe even trying...
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Making Time For The Things That Matter In Life
I took a different route to work yesterday. And I saw different things. Suddenly, in a gap between buildings, I spied this view in the photo, above: stairs and a distant clock face above them. A...
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Feed Your Mind – Mindfulness And Your Thoughts
It was on this same trip to work the other day, walking a different way, seeing different things, that I spotted this sign: “FEED YOUR MIND.” And it led me to wondering… What are you feeding your...
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If “Eternity Is Now” Then What Will You Do With It?
I came across a little piece of eternity the other day (there it is in the photo, above). Or, more precisely, it came across me. Tumbling towards me on the footpath. Blowin’ in the wind*. Ok, so it...
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Lost And Found Love On Valentine’s Day
I happened to spy this leaf on the path the other day. I was on my way to somewhere else and had my mind on other things, and could easily have walked right past it. Yet there it was. Torn. Battered....
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Feel Like A Lost Soul? Taking Steps To Find Yourself Again
I was winding my way through the early morning rush hour at the station, past crowds of people blurring by, when this strange little moment of stillness opened up. And then I saw it: a lost sole. (In...
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Surviving Post-Mother’s-Day Blues
Are you over Mother’s Day yet? And by that I mean, have you recovered from it? Healed again? Found your balance after the stormy emotions it might have rained down on you? Because for many people this...
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The Valentine’s Vine: Growing Love in Empty Hearts
My grandmother is a sly sage (as so many of our grandmothers seem to be). On our most recent wander through her backyard, when I casually commented on her magnolia tree, she paused and replied, “Yes,...
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