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The Rest Of My Life
I am getting shockingly old. I’m not quite sure how it happened but one day I was mildly cool (back when cool was a thing) and seemingly the next day I was old. How did this happen? I was always the...
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In Defence Of Whining
Women: We don’t snore, we don’t perspire, and we don’t pass wind. If we didn’t bitch, we’d explode! —Kathleen Madigan If it wasn’t for whining I probably wouldn’t have a job. No one likes a whiner, so...
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Desperate For Approval
Anyone who works in the mental health industry can tell you that almost everyone struggles with crippling self-esteem for some of their life. It is an epidemic. We are a generation that cannot love...
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Sorry
Sorry. As a Canadian I am intimately familiar with that word. We are considered a polite people but it is possible that we are just more passive-aggressive than some of our neighbours. It is true that...
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Moments
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt I have been working on a personal...
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Gratitude
She came in for needle exchange, “for a friend”. It was her first time here so I took the basic information. It was her 50th birthday today. The only gift I could offer was coffee. Here’s the thing –...
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Be Brave
I ran across this drug commercial a few days ago and it reminded me that each one of us, in spite of our challenges and insecurities, can make a difference. No one knows your failures and shortcomings...
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My Inner Monster
The voice within me. I have a second voice, deep inside, that I listen to. I’m not dissociative, not paranoid or delusional, but he’s still there. He tells me things are going to be alright. He invites...
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You Make Me So Angry
You Make Me So Angry. As a counselor I often face the daunting task of helping people see that no one else can make them angry. No one else can make them sad. No one else, short of a disaster, can...
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The Island of Misfit Toys
It’s Christmas time. If you don’t believe me just turn on the television. There were years, many years, when as a single parent who wasn’t interested in dating I felt the sting of all the Christmas...
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Why Some Relationship Counseling Doesn’t Work
Listen to people talk about their problems long enough and you begin to realize that there isn’t very much we can do about some situations. Take for example the person who comes to talk to me,...
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Beginnings And Endings
It’s that time of the year again. Time to look ahead in anticipation of what is not yet. We are in a state of becoming. Everything has been made new. It’s also a time to say goodbye. Gone are those...
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500
Five hundred. … 500 fights, that’s the number I figured when I was a kid. 500 street fights and you could consider yourself a legitimate tough guy. You need them for experience. To develop leather...
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Men and Toilet Seats
We have a joke around here, though it’s not a good one. It goes something like, “Women make sure you put the toilet seat back up!” Like I said, not really funny, though the men tend to laugh. Don’t get...
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The Great Perhaps
I’m tired of pessimism. It is the world I live in. It is the state of things around my chunk of the party. I have often said that by the time people get to be about 40 they have seen enough pain, been...
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Quote Of The Day
Counseling is about trying to change the way we think – so that we are happy in spite of our situation, not because of it.
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Bore Me To Life
I have spoken with a lot of people about trauma. It’s kind of my job. Rarely a day goes by without hearing about someone’s life taking a tragic detour, of heartache and ruined families and ruined...
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Experimenting With Deductive Reasoning
I watch a lot of Sherlock Holmes. No one is as good as Basil Rathbone, no matter what you might think. I can see him clearly in my mind’s eye, which is amazing when you consider I cannot imagine the...
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How Long Can This Take?
It’s very sad. I have watched it happen for years but it continues to haunt me, just a little bit. She quit. She had been coming for just over two months and she was frustrated. The change that she was...
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