change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!welcome to the 7th carnival of eating disorders! this round, i’m trying something new. i’ll discuss the articles in a little more detail and break them up over two days. let me know how you like […]

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surinder: “hey, wanna come to the beach tonight?”
petra: “oh, i don’t know if i can make it to the beach. the weather probably won’t hold.”
steve: “sure, i’ll come!”
brian: “yeah, i’ll show up. if it rains, we can always leave early.”
dorothy: “no, i’m sorry i can’t make it. i’m busy working on my […]

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my friend aaron zacharias – not aaron the walker but aaron the painter – shares this beautiful story:
thursday, one of my clients, on a whim wanted us to go downtown and visit the library. then he asked if we could look around in a couple of antiquarian bookstores on pender.
in one of these stores […]

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“may i ask what age group you fall into? ok, thanks. do you work for a marketing company? no? good. and your household income? thank you. last question, what postal code do you live in? oh, V5W? i’m sorry, we already have the quota for people with […]

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according to medicine.net, there is more and more agreement that alcohol abuse occurs on a continuum. it needs to be treated accordingly; traditional methods of helping alcoholics work for less than half of them. project MATCH, a project involving over 80 therapists, is now looking at ways to match patient preferences with different kinds […]

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hot coffee girl, a blogger i met through damien riley, introduced me to the idea of “blogging bullet points” – short little tidbits to blog about. so here are some random things that have been rattling around here these last few days:

reading the marlowe chronicles righ now. an aging actor (ham?) is facing […]

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“don’t chew your moustache (or anyone else’s)”
that’s part of what robert c. carson call’s the “pleasant person’s act”. in my last post i mentioned his book, taming your gremlin and you may remember how he talked about the discomfort, even pain, that can come from following your self-concept rather than just being yourself.
in the […]

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gentle rain links this soft night
with soil, still steaming from the day -
ride upwards to those stars in wafts of early summer.
and already the seed of fall is getting ready,
yawning, stretching, scratching the green of a blade here and there.
solstice tonight, and everything here contains everything.
those clouds that cover the dark, dark blue that is […]

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over a week ago, i got tagged by one of my new blogger friends, damien at riley central, to talk about “the face behind the hands” (the blogging hands, one presumes).
well, you guys get to see my face with every blog post, so i’m not going to add yet another one. but you’ve probably […]

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one of my twitter friends, ben, has been alerting me to all kinds of interesting links lately. through him i found this here, the 12 steps of liberation, a recovery program from a buddhist view. it’s brought to us by the universal compassion centre.
the 12 steps of liberation
1. the truth of suffering. we […]

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in my internet travels, i have occasionally come across white bison, a recovery initiative particularly geared towards native americans, or first nations people, our term here in canada.
today i chanced upon one of white bison’s premises:
“a spiritual person is one who screws up everyday and keeps coming back to the creator”
what a great definition! […]

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in continuation of a post the other day on the need to respect individuality in therapy, i came across toronto nutritional sciences researcher ahmed el-sohemy’s work on the difference between men and women in reacting to caffeine.

nutrigenomics - matching nutrition to your DNA
his research is connected to the field of nutrigenomics, a new field of […]

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remember the inspiration post? you never know what’s going to inspire you. i just found a new blog that i’m going to try and follow, written by a venture capitalist in new york, and his blog entry for today was very short:
i just called my dad. got voice mail. wished him a happy […]

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one of my favourite magazines is visions, BC’s mental health and addictions journal. it always has a great cross-section of mental health “consumers” (isn’t that a strange term?) and professionals writing about issues that directly impact people with mental health concerns: from those who are living with schizophrenia, to parents of youth battling with […]

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from darfur to duesseldorf, from iceland to isla negra, from barcelona to benares, happy international weblogger’s day!
rio akasaka brought this event into being a few years ago, and even though it doesn’t have such a large fellowship yet, i still like to participate in it. maybe it’s because i’ve lived in a number of […]

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