the CMHA (vancouver-burnaby branch) will be holding a depression and anxiety screening the evening of monday, january 18th 2010, which they call ‘blue monday.’ blue monday is traditionally the third monday in january, a date chosen because it occurs after the holidays but when the days are still dark and dreary, new year’s resolutions may [...]
Entries Tagged as 'therapy'
depression screening on blue monday, january 18
January 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Tags: depression and mental illness · therapy
journaling – what works for you?
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments
today, please visit marie at coming out of the trees. about her blog she says
i’m passing along a collection of excerpts from my personal and therapy journals to whomever needs to read them. i’m sharing my story so that those of you who are on a similar journey can know that you aren’t the only [...]
Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · spirituality · therapy
finding your way through grief
October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
grief is not something that i have a lot experience with as a counsellor, so it was interesting to read through psychologist roberta temes’ solace – finding your way through grief and learning to live again. the book’s no-nonsense, empowering tone is set right in the first paragraph of the introduction:
you are experiencing this [...]
Tags: emotional health · interesting books · therapy
acceptance, is, ought, and baby food
October 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments
a few weeks ago we had a conversation about acceptance. one of the things we discussed there was this:
acceptance is about the past not the future …
a common trap that we fall into in our thinking is when we jump without reflection between what is and what should (ought) be. in philosophy, that has [...]
Tags: emotional health · therapy
understanding acceptance
October 3rd, 2009 · 14 Comments
last month we had a conversation about acceptance, and i’d like to continue it.
evan said, “i think changing the world can be valuable, too.”
maybe there is no either/or between acceptance and making changes.
to accept comes from the latin, meaning to receive (as in “UPS delivered a parcel for you, and i accepted it”.) [...]
Tags: emotional health · philosophy and education · the "understanding" series · therapy
10 happy questions
September 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments
as you know, questions have a special place in my heart (see this post on encouraging questions, for example.)
as i was preparing for a little workshop i facilitated today on solution focused coaching and counselling, i realized that my first discovery of the power of questions was not back in 1999, when i first really [...]
Tags: emotional health · therapy
soul music from a piano’s underbelly
September 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
soft, these sounds
steal again into my heart.
how’d he do it?
he played on the piano
like he knew all about our souls.
this is a little tanka – a short japanese poem – i wrote after listening to the CD of the wonderful sounds craig addy created when my friend and soulmate haedy were lying under the piano.
yes, [...]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · emotional health · therapy
suicide prevention
September 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments
today is the last day of suicide prevention week. to honour those who have attempted suicide and survived, those who have lost loved ones, and the lives of people who have chosen this sad way out, i’ve collected a few worthwhile links on the topic. if we put them all together, here are [...]
Tags: blogs of note · depression and mental illness · news and events · psychological research and other things academic · therapy
blog post #1000: possible dreams
August 21st, 2009 · 11 Comments
this is my entry for joanna young’s newest mission impossible group writing project where she challenged writers to push their blogging boundaries. i had asked you, my dear readers, to suggest what i should do. all kinds of interesting ideas came up and i’ll definitely try to incorporate as many as possible in my blog [...]
Tags: blogs of note · the net · therapy
of schizophrenic mice and men
August 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
here is some exciting new research on schizophrenia, which i found through changeseeker. the full text is at psycport; i’ve added a few links and comments.
new research from the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine has revealed how schizophrenia works in the brain and provided a fresh opportunity for treatment. in a new, genetically engineered [...]
Tags: depression and mental illness · psychological research and other things academic · therapy
morita therapy, the psychology of action
May 29th, 2009 · 8 Comments
once in a while i tell people that the name of my company is moritherapy and they say, “oh yes, i know moritherapy!” what they usually mean is morita therapy.
it’s about time i explore what that is. the information here comes from the ToDo institute.
morita therapy is sometimes referred to as the psychology of [...]
Tags: therapy
blogging yourself home – the books
May 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments
for the blogging yourself home workshop at MentalHealthCamp, i had referred to a number of books in addition to leon tan’s fabulous article on MySpace and blogging as a form of self therapy.
here they are:
writing from the heart – tapping the power of your inner voice, by nancy slonim aronie
love the friendly, welcoming, comfortable tone [...]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · emotional health · interesting books · the net · therapy
the depressing (side) effects of antidepressants
April 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
the following is a guest post by kat sanders, who regularly blogs at MRI technician schools. she welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: katsanders2 at gmail.com.
the opinions expressed in this post are kat sanders’ – i personally don’t take as strong a stance as kat, mainly because, as i say time and [...]
Tags: depression and mental illness · therapy
eating disorders: mothers and daughters
March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
this is a continuation of my conversation with joanna poppink about adults recovering from eating disorders, with an emphasis on how that impacts relationships. joannna poppink is a psychotherapist with a private practice in los angeles specializing in eating disorder recovery (you can see her blog at stop eating disorders.) yesterday i said i [...]
Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics · therapy
chaotic thoughts on employment counselling
March 4th, 2009 · 7 Comments
another live blog from the career management conference!
glenn olien works in employment/career counselling in the construction industry
warning: aptly, since this is about chaos theory in counselling, these notes will be somewhat chaotic, more than the two live blogs before. kind of like twitter on a blog
questions to be discussed: why do people [...]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · news and events · psychological research and other things academic · therapy



