if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!in a comment yesterday on my article on some research on adult children of alcoholics, CP stressed the importance of genetics in alcoholism.
i would like to contrast that with another point of view. gabor mate offers this theory […]
Entries Tagged as 'interesting books'
addiction, genetics and early brain development
August 4th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Tags: addictions · interesting books · psychological research and other things academic
blogathon: compassionate curiosity, knowledge and objectification
July 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments
posed in a tone of compassionate curiosity, “why?” is transformed from rigid accusation to an open-minded, even scientific question. instead of hurling an accusatory brick at your own head (e.g., “i’m so stupid, when will i ever learn,” etc.), the question “why did i do this again, knowing full well the consequences?” can become […]
Tags: addictions · interesting books · philosophy and education · therapy
blogathon: vancouver magic
July 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
okay, here’s another book: city magick, by christopher penczak. it contains some wonderful ideas and exercises about how to experience city environment in a new, reverent and magical way.
i feel very ambivalent about some aspects of city environment. for example, a few years ago, when a huge forest fire raged in kelowna, i was struck […]
Tags: interesting books · spirituality
blogathon: mental health support in churches
July 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
in my announcement of this blogathon last week, i mentioned marja bergen, the founder of the living room, a church-based support group for people with mood disorders. let me give you a few excerpts from her new book, a firm place to stand, where she describes the birth of the living room. marja’s experience […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · interesting books · spirituality
blogathon: the temple of my familiar by alice walker (a book review)
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
copyrighted in 1989, alice walker’s the temple of my familiar is anything but new, at least to our way of thinking. to miss lissie, one of the book’s main protagonists, the 19 years that have intervened since then would be but a barely noticeable blip, seeing that she can remember lives back to the times […]
Tags: interesting books · spirituality
blogathon: leaving a cult
July 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments
this is an entry for my participation in the 2008 blogathon, a 24-hour marathon of blogging. please support the cause and donate – however much, however little – to the canadian mental health association (vancouver/burnaby branch). to donate, email me or use this URL: www.canadahelps.org/CharityProfilePage.aspx?CharityID=d2252. you should be able to get there by […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · interesting books · spirituality
blogathon: the no complaining rule
July 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
the cost of negativity is one of the things jon gordon points out in his book the no complaining rule
negativity costs the US economy between $250 to $300 billion every year in lost productivity (gallup)
90% of doctor visits are stress related (centers for disease control), and the #1 cause of office stress is […]
Tags: emotional health · interesting books
blogathon 2008: helping people with mood disorders
July 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
countdown to change therapy’s participation in the 2008 blogathon on july 26, 2008, where we blog non-stop for charities. i will be blogging for the canadian mental health association. an example of the kind of content you will find during the blogathon: marja bergen’s new book about finding meaning in a life with bipolar disorder.
Tags: depression and mental illness · interesting books · spirituality
josh waitzkin, an inspiring performer
July 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
the everyday becomes exquisitely beautiful. the notion of boredom becomes alien and absurd as we naturally soak in the lovely subtleties of the “banal.” josh waitzkin
this quote is from waitzkin’s the art of learning, a book i’ll comfortably put on my all-time top 10 books on personal development. it’s not just a “good” […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · emotional health · interesting books · philosophy and education
frozen pea friday: “cancer is my kryptonite”
June 20th, 2008 · 17 Comments
it’s friday and we have a frozen pea friday post to celebrate cancer survivors. today, a guest post by hayley:
hi! i’m hayley and i’m an alcoholic. oh wait, wrong posting day. this is the cancer posting day. let’s try that again!
hi! i’m hayley townley. i’m thrilled to have been asked to be a guest […]
Tags: blogs of note · cancer · interesting books
albert schweitzer: reverence for life
June 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments
the other day i found a little post on resonant enigma’s about reverence. these words here are inspired by this; in fact, it’s a slightly rewritten excerpt of a paper i wrote quite a few years ago in a course on environmental philosophy. here it is:
my great-aunt mathilde had lots of books, but […]
Tags: blogs of note · interesting books · peace, environment, social justice et al · philosophy and education
learning to listen
June 1st, 2008 · 6 Comments
today i’m guest blogging over at alex’s blog, our evolution, about a profound experience i had some years ago that allowed me to transcend my little judgments and and truly listen to the essence of what is said. you’d think that as a counsellor, that should be second nature to me – and i […]
Tags: blogs of note · communication · interesting books · spirituality
carrnival of eating disorders #17
May 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments
welcome to the 17th carnival of eating disorders, where we look at blog posts that deal with anorexia, bulimia, exercise bulimia, overeating, orthorexia, EDNOS, body image and other related topics.
i have to confess that after all this time, the name “carnival” of eating disorders still rings funny in my ears. thesaurus.com suggests these alternative […]
Tags: blogs of note · depression and mental illness · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · interesting books
the definition of addiction
May 26th, 2008 · 10 Comments
in the last few weeks, a radio interview and two articles have encouraged me to again look at the nature of addiction. one of them is a discussion we are having on this blog here about alcohol use and art, with contributions by danish composer skovgaard danielsen and zen practitioner and painter eden […]
Tags: addictions · depression and mental illness · interesting books
carnival of eating disorders #15
April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
ladies and gentlemen, i present to you: the 15th carnival of eating disorders!
anorexia
an x-ray technician talks about three generations of women with eating disorders. she describes anorexia as an addiction:
unlike other addictions, anorexia is something you don’t do. to be an alcoholic you have to find alcohol to drink. drug addicts have to buy […]
Tags: addictions · blogs of note · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · interesting books


