change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!this is another post about chain letters (you may remember one a few weeks ago about a petition type chain letter). i’d like to explain what i find disturbing about another type - the prayer chain letter.
chain letters […]

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(this is another, edited, reprint from my old blog)
i have an uneasy relationship with affirmations. on the one hand i know they can work (under certain circumstances) on the other, my logical mind mistrusts them and finds them plain silly.
maybe one day i’ll be wanting to step in front of a mirror and say, “i […]

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and now for a bizarre little factlet, from our friends at medicalnews:
“America is becoming known as a nation of gluttony and obesity, and churches are a feeding

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my favourite buddhist blogger right now is genkaku. here are a few thoughts he has on the phenomenon of self help, and my comment on it.
basically, the question i pose is, who is

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today is the 161st birthday of king ludwig II, the crazy and wonderful king of bavaria.  born in munich (my hometown), he was the “fairy tale king”, the man who funded the building of castles like neuschwanstein - the prototypical palaces many north americans think of when they hear the word “castle”. king ludwig […]

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this is a first here: we have a guest contributor - my husband, glenn mori:
Recently we had the opportunity to spend some time with my sister’s four month old twin boys. Not everyone likes babies. Some people who like children don’t care so much for babies. They like older children, ones that they feel they […]

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today i cruised the blogs of some alcoholics in recovery. i picked out some tasty morsels for you. these are real stories from real people who have gone through the black pain of alcoholism and are now accepting the sweet pain of recovery, of moving forward, one step at a time, day by […]

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as you all know, i love to read. today i looked around on the web to see what’s on offer by queer psychologists because what i’ve found at the vancouver public library so far hasn’t quite done it for me (i can’t even remember the names of the books). here are some i’d […]

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so … the weekend to end breast cancer is over. it was quite an experience! no, i didn’t walk the whole 60k - i managed 25. being good to my body was more important to me than pushing myself. i still felt a little stiff today, though - although not nearly […]

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well, it’s happening - we’re going to the weekend to end breast cancer walk tomorrow!
i’ve never done the walk myself, only visited and gone to the closing ceremonies. the feeling alone of being to those events gives me shivers down the spine just thinking about it.
the walk is about a collective of people making something […]

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scientific american has interesting things to say about the expert mind. this is my condensed version:
Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well.
Much of the chess master’s advantage over the novice derives from the first few seconds of thought. This rapid, […]

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to continue with the theme we’ve been talking about, i just stumbled across a whole big web site devoted to changing people’s minds. it includes a page that analyzes martin luther king’s famous i have a dream speech.
isabella mori
counselling in vancouver

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a few days ago, i asked what it is that i can do to help stop the kind of violence that so harshly burst into my friend’s life the other day. here is a comment i received:
i think this goes along with trying to change someone or can you actually “make” someone do something. […]

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in my last blog entry, i spoke about violence in my microcosm, just 10 minutes down the street from where i live. i’m looking forward to replying to the comments i received on that – again, interesting thoughts that deserve more than a short acknowledgment. before i do that, however, let’s look at […]

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two nights ago, a friend of ours got savagely beaten. they live right across a school with a big, open playground, which is often used for wild late-night partying. he went out and asked them to keep it down. six people swarmed him and beat him so badly that a piece of […]

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