Millions of years ago, our humanoid ancestry would travel in packs, tools in hand, searching the lands for food and sustenance. At this point in our history, a threat would stimulate a few simple responses from our body that helped us outlive other species and grow into the people we are today. No response was …
Most of us have heard of positive psychology and about its benefits (if not go tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology and get reading!) made popular largely by Martin Seligman. The basics of positive of psychology are about teaching ourselves to be happier and thus helping our brains ‘think happy’. My question is; does positive psychology insinuate that to be happy …
IS POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ACTUALLY MAKING YOU FEEL SAD? Read More »
How many times have you seen a group of people ‘together’ yet somehow all glued to their phones, only interacting to show one another something funny on their phone?Everywhere I look I see screens – computers, TVs, tablets, and phones – soon they will probably be affixed somehow to our bodies, with the wearable technology craze. The …
I should start this off by saying I am no authority on this subject. After reading for what feels like years, and training on the subject, I have more questions than answers. Below are some of my thoughts.Recently, while reading “Invitations To Responsibility” by Alan Jenkins, and having various discussions with my clinical team, and …
VIOLENCE – ARE WE WORKING WITH THE SYMPTOM INSTEAD OF THE PROBLEM? Read More »
Are people actually as messed up as their families suggest, are family members privy to more of our dark side and need explanations for what they see? Maybe people really are all mentally ill… or maybe is there something else going on here? As a family therapist, I hear stories of so many family members …
SAVE YOUR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS! DIAGNOSE A FAMILY MEMBER TODAY! Read More »
I am a firm believer in all of us being responsible for our reactions, behaviours and ourselves. However, I also believe that prevention is better than the cure (and much easier). This is a message to all of you that you have power in the future of our society – the power to positively influence …
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Socrates 470 – 399 B.C The youth are living in a world with less violence, better economic stability, better education and an increasingly equal society, yet things aren’t all peachy for …
Imagine the blue grey volcanic mountains holding their position, while the wind blows down to a Mayan tribe watching from below. A boy walking head down catches an elders’ eyes and she decides to ask the child why he looks so glum. “My parents are arguing again, there is no food or money and this …
The Safest Ways To Have One of The Hardest Conversations of Your Kids’ lives I have heard this question more times than I remember. Many parents are aware of the impact that this conversation, and the moments (and years) which follow, will have on their kids. In fact, many parents who I speak with can …
I have been reading a lot of very misleading pop-psychology articles on the web about introversion and extroversion, which I think people are taking way too seriously. Some authors have even taken it into their own hands and created new subgroups which are neither introverted nor extroverted, but rather somewhere in between. I think it …
ARE YOU AN INTROVERT OR EXTROVERT? THE SURPRISING TRUTH… Read More »
