When I was a Physiotherapist, my clients would come see me when they were enough pain that they couldn’t tolerate it anymore and sought help. After a course of treatment with me, the pain would decrease back down to a manageable or tolerable...

Have you ever gone through a challenging time and just needed to tell someone about it? Maybe you had a rough day at work, or maybe you just had one of those days that everything goes wrong - the milk was sour, the car wouldn’t start, your...

We live in a culture where some emotions are believed to be “acceptable” and “allowed” and some are not, typically for certain groups of people. For example, farmers are supposed to be strong and not depressed, women are...

I have some very sad news. My sister passed away a few days ago after a short, intense journey with cancer. She was only 42 years old. She leaves behind a loving husband of 14 years and 2 young children - 12 and 8 years old.

Shortly after her...

About a month ago, my youngest sister had her first baby, a girl. I am so happy for her and her husband.

But about one week after she was born, I started to notice that something inside me was off. I was still happy but there was a mix of...

I recently purchased an app called Commune - a course platform for personal and societal well-being. On this app, I learned something from Jeff Krasno that I am sharing with you, here. It is a form of stoic mediation that helps to change your...

Stress is physiological disharmony that takes place inside of you. This disharmony is noticeable; if you are paying attention to your inside world, you can feel when you are stressed and then do something to remedy that. But sometimes, or maybe...

It is incredibly difficult to witness someone suffering. You want to take the suffering away, you may even wish to take it on yourself. You may try to fix the problem for them, but usually you can’t. You feel so helpless.

What is there to do...

“Think positive” sounds like a nice piece of advice to give to someone going through a difficult time. We mean well when we give it but actually it can sometimes be more harmful than helpful.

Imagine going through a really difficult...

Things are different now, but several years ago, I was really trying to lose weight. Diets. Exercise. The whole shebang.

I would stand on the scale daily so that I could track my progress.

I remember there were several days I’d get up in the...