This is about how ordinary daily experiences can be life lessons. Years ago, I accidentally found a brand of hiking shoe that seemed perfect in every way. Comfort. Fit. Waterproof, and a safe tread for icy weather as well as mud, especially in Toronto. I wore these shoes daily tomore …
Poems from my recovery process helped me heal Sometimes writing in a journal just doesn’t cut it. And when complicated thoughts seem too difficult to capture, simple phrases can meet the moment. During a major clear-out (thanks to the pandemic), I found a book of poems I’d written during amore …
we still need to remember What a crappy thing to commemorate. Today, December 6, 2020 marks thirty-one years since the Montreal Massacre. A major turning point when violence against women because random and focused. When a very sick soul gunned down 14 women attending university. Their crime? They were attendingmore …
These little items brought back some important memories I couldn’t throw them away. Not when my sister and I were sifting through the household items after our mother died (over 25 years ago). They must have been included in several boxes of things I brought home for eventual appraisal andmore …
Keeping your sanity during the pandemic Well, here we are in this new territory. All of us, across the globe. How fascinating (and dreadful) to watch things change on a daily basis. Like dominos, one by one what we (probably) took for granted has stopped working. I don’t even remembermore …
30 Stars Shine Despite Mental Illness It takes courage and grace to tear down the stigma In 2013 one of my first blogs focused on the courage of David Letterman, who came out about his depression. Surprisingly, this has been one of the most googled pages on my site. Peoplemore …
Lost and found Recently I wore my special beads. I don’t know what they are made of exactly, but they look like tiny brown peach pits or miniature unshelled walnuts whose sharp edges have been eroded by time. I was about to write, “just like me,” which would be wishfulmore …
When I look at my practice over the last 12 years or so, and think of all the clients who have come to me with disordered eating of some type, I am struck by the commonalities linking those who succeed and those who stop coming. I find the same inmore …
Can you find a moment in your day to contemplate something awesome? The universe often gives us moments to pause and reflect on who we are and what we are doing at any particular time. Yesterday I had one of those moments while driving home through one of the ritzymore …