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Holiday Tips During Your Fertility Journey
For a couple that has been struggling with infertility, the holidays can be a particularly painful...
The Pursuit of Happiness: A Lifelong Quest?
Since recently being asked my thoughts on happiness, I have been reflecting on this perpetually...
Mindful Relationships Part 3: The Slippery Slope of Integrity
We all know that living with integrity means matching our behaviors to our values. It means doing...
Altruism: Helping Others to Help Yourself
Have you noticed yourself in a seasonal slump lately as the days grow shorter and colder, and the...
Mindful Relationships Part 2: Valuing Authenticity
So we hear a lot about the importance of leading an authentic life. What does this really mean?...
Mindful Relationships Part 1: The Honeymoon Trap
Experiential avoidance is a term, used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), that refers to...
Hypnosis: How Does It Really Work?
For many, hypnosis conjures images of a man with a vest, swinging a pocket watch, speaking slowly...
Authenticity: Well-being and Living A Values-Driven Life
There are many views of happiness but messages from our society seem to promote the idea that we...
More than Medications: Integrated Treatment for Chronic Pain
There are many people who suffer from what doctor’s describe as chronic pain. The management of...
Lions, Tigers and Bears……Oh My Stomach Hurts! The relationship between stress and digestion
Many people speak of the “fight or flight” response that occurs in the body when something...
Feelings Part 3: Expressing and Communicating Feelings
In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we explored what feelings really are and the negative...
Feelings Part 2: Identifying Feelings
As mentioned in my previous post on feeling, many people go through much of their lives ignoring...
Feelings Part 1: Defining Feelings
Many people who come into therapy report that they are disconnected from their feelings. A notable...
Thyroid Function, Mood Disturbance & Cognitive Impairments
It has been evidenced that changes in thyroid hormone is associated with mood, neuropsychiatric...
Techniques to Improve Memory for People with Multiple Sclerosis
Generation Effect: Information that is self-generated, or generated from your own mind, is...
Self-Compassion
Many of the people we see in therapy are inundated with derisive, attacking, and at times,...
Life-threatening Pediatric Medical Diagnoses and Treatment: Overcoming the Adversity
Pediatric patients diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition and their families are...
Alopecia: Chemotherapy and Hair Loss
Alopecia is the loss of some or all of one’s hair. For cancer patients, alopecia happens because...
The Power of Forgiveness
Ancient wisdom and recent research from the field of positive psychology suggests that learning to...