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Shared as part of a memorial service at Niagara-On-The-Lake, June 17, 2023 Today we gather as a community of mourners, each of us drawn here by a common thread as we seek to remember and honor [...]

We often spend much of our time thinking about the future, or the past.  As a result, we miss the experience of being here now, or being present.  Richard Rohr describes the importance of [...]

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 [...]

Grief is a normal, natural response to loss but we often don’t want to know about it.  The reality is that we will all experience major and minor losses in our lifetime.  Not acknowledging [...]

There has been much focus over the past several years on the practice of gratitude and how it can positively influence our emotional and mental health.  A recent study (Brown and Wong, 2017) [...]

Parker Palmer, the author of “The Courage to Teach” writes about the importance of listening for the voice of inner vocation.  Sometimes referred to as a “calling” this [...]