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Are your health habits supporting your inner resilience or hindering it?  Resilience can be thought of as our ability to thrive and cope with life’s challenges.  Some of our coping may be [...]

As my father approached the end-of-life at the long term care home where he had spent the last few months of his life, I received a telephone call in the early hours of the morning from the head [...]

Potatoes Photo by graibeard We cannot eat raw potatoes, but we don’t throw them away just because they are raw. The following comes from one of my favourite teachers of mindfulness, the Buddhist [...]

Part one – meditation promotes relaxation The counterpart to the fight flight or freeze response, the relaxation response, occurs when the body is no longer in perceived danger, and the autonomic [...]

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.  The artist never entirely knows.  We guess. We may be wrong, but we [...]

A recent study* looked at why psychotherapy works – or more specifically, the conditions that promote positive growth and change. One trait stood out among all of the others such as social [...]

“The capacity to be alone thus becomes linked with self discovery and self realization; with becoming aware of one’s deepest needs, feelings, and impulses.” Anthony Storr Time in solitude [...]