change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!we read a lot about women with body image problems. but what about men? well, in this, the second carnival of eating disorders, you’ll read someone’s reflections on that. and while we’re at it, why don’t […]

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i’ve been interested in the 12 steps for almost as long as i’ve been a counsellor – 15 years now. what first attracted me to them was their fierce commitment to honesty and being real, to be humble, and to follow an ethical and spiritual way of life.
the 12 steps came originally from alcoholics […]

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here’s another article written by my husband, glenn, reflecting on his thoughts, feelings and motivations around playing online poker.
Poker is something that I’ve long had a mild interest in but it was pretty rare that my

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“isn’t even negative thinking a mental illness? so we all have some form of mental illness.” that was michelle’s comment on the vote for mental health posting.
mental illness. what is that? let’s say illness is a deviation from normal functioning and well-being.
so then the question is – what is normal?
“normal” is […]

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i haven’t posted a poem for quite a while. so here we have, today, a serving of five haikus!
immense yellow ball
rolling up the horizon:
sweet buttery light.

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when is something worth doing? and how often do you do things that are worth your while? how often do you squander away your day? this is something david seah, a freelance IT professional, asked himself, and he came up with this great system.
there’s really little i can add, other than kudos […]

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a few days ago, we talked here about the rejection of jay’s six-word story because it was supposedly not g-rated. jay’s and jennifer’s comments on it were so thought-provoking that i decided to post my replies to them here.
this is not just about one incidence. it’s about how to best deal with the […]

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my friend aaron – all-round artist, geek, environmentalist, treeplanter, and last not least full-time human being – is at it again.
he’s walking for the cure from cars.
talk about walking the talk. and since this time he’s documenting his journeys so beautifully, we could say he’s also talking his walk.
so. the cure from cars. […]

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a few days ago, i posted about the six word story contest at middlezonemusings. the only stipulation was that the submissions were to be g-rated. i thought it was a great meme/game and tagged a few blogger friends, among others jay sennett. jay, a transgendered person, crafted this insightful phrase:
no breasts. complete hysterectomy. […]

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vote for mental health!
what mental health issue needs to go on the government’s agenda? if you have opinions about that – and i hope you do – and if you’re canadian, you can now participate in an e-consultation put up by health canada.
the questions are

do we need a mental health commission?
what should this commission […]

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fifteen really short stories that have crossed my path in fifteen years of counselling:

depressed, manic. manic, depressed. depressed, manic.
marry you? you gotta be kidding.
have anxiety, will not travel. help!
too thin. better eat. that’s hard.
“can’t think straight.” “relax.” “oh, wow!”
booze, cocaine and

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well, almost free. if you submit a comment in the next week or so, you may win a free lunch. you see, i love statistics. i love to see numbers grow and change and make a potpourri of interesting patterns. and if you contribute to this obsession, you may get a […]

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how do you heal the emotional aftermath of cancer treatment? how do we deal with the ups and downs of our personal journeys? what does external clutter tell us about the chaos in our minds?
these are just a few of the questions posed in this week’s edition of the carnival of healing, a […]

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thanks to changeeverything, i feel inspired to bring my environmental consciousness a little more up to date. i dug around in the environmental column i used to write for the the review, a small vancouver newspaper, from about 1988-1991 and found an article that seems just as fresh today as in april of 1990. […]

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should ashley, who may never develop mentally beyond a 3-month-old, grow up physically to be a woman, fully capable of bearing children?
you know what, i really don’t know.
i can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like to be ashley or her parents. for the parents - is it like living

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