Recently I was in a ‘fitness funk’. My old relationship with fitness, aesthetic desire, pushing weights, sprints, etc.. just wasn’t doing it for me anymore. In my mind I was saying, “what am I doing this for?” Have you ever been there, where the old needs and the old...
Who doesn’t love being supported? Well, from my clinical experience, everyone consciously wants to be supported. Except when I start asking them questions to reveal unconsciously why they don’t want it: It limits your flexibility and independence It takes up...
I remember a number of years ago, my teenage daughter came up the stairs in quite the mood. Steamrolling her way through, I immediately froze and was like whoa! My mind captured that behaviour, that image, and perceived it as a challenge. My inner dialogue became...
Healing trauma is no doubt a reality and a buzz word. It’s so important, yet most people circle and dance around it, like it’s an illusive, intangible idea. And in this idea that people see, comes this never ending cycle that people will use to avoid taking...
I’m going to start with the end in mind; “Anger is a strategy” I start with that, because we need to de-emotionalize anger for a moment so we can see things more clearly. When a fish wants food, it swims. Swimming is the strategy. We have emotions and traits about us,...
It is said that if our environment changes more than 10%, our nervous system begins to get overwhelmed. That doesn’t lend itself too much breathing room when it comes to changing environments, challenging relationships, or even our own toxic behaviour. I’m going to...
