Dealing with Anxiety
Are you experiencing heightened anxiety due to COVID-19? I want to share some tips with you. First of all, it is normal to feel worry...
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Jason McCarty
- Feb 13, 2014
- 3 min
Stop Coping and Start Thriving
I’ve been thinking about the idea of coping strategies lately. Sometimes in my work with substance abusers, or anyone struggling to deal...
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Jason McCarty
- Jan 10, 2014
- 3 min
Finding Substance
The word substance has my attention lately. There is something both conceptually satisfying about it as well as experientially...
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Jason McCarty
- Nov 26, 2013
- 2 min
New Adventures are Never Final
After being lost for periods of time, we sometimes find our way. Or maybe I should say we find “a” way. A path, a route, that at least...
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Jason McCarty
- Nov 21, 2013
- 2 min
The Annoying thing About Change
I’ve written elsewhere that you have to change to change. Pretty simple, right? But yet we all struggle with this. Even the smallest and...
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Jason McCarty
- Oct 31, 2013
- 3 min
Living Honestly
Why do we live in a world where honesty is a scarce value? What does honesty mean to people? What are we even talking about when we...
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Jason McCarty
- Oct 24, 2013
- 2 min
Lost
You are standing on a street corner and wondering how you got there. Nothing looks familiar and anxious energy starts to rise. You aren’t...
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Jason McCarty
- Oct 17, 2013
- 4 min
Welcome to Your Life: how life changes us
I’ve been learning a lot in the past several years. I have delved more deeply than ever into the areas of philosophy, psychology and...
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Jason McCarty
- Oct 3, 2013
- 2 min
Seasons of Our Lives
We are now into the autumn season. It’s cooler, it gets dark earlier and things are beginning to die. The fall is a transition period....
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Jason McCarty
- Sep 19, 2013
- 9 min
Why is Parenting So Hard These Days?
Narrowing Worlds and Great Expectations: on why parenting is so hard these days Where to begin. I have so many thoughts on parenting...
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Jason McCarty
- Sep 5, 2013
- 4 min
The Blank Page (of life)
As I sit here and stare at the blank page, anxiety builds. There many things to say, too much really, and carving that down into an essay...
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Jason McCarty
- Aug 29, 2013
- 2 min
On Why You Want to Stay Stuck
Why are you not getting better? Why does it seem like nothing changes for you? Why do you continue to have the same ailments haunting...
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Jason McCarty
- Aug 21, 2013
- 3 min
When Counselling is Part of the Problem
Sometimes I believe that people come to me for the wrong reasons. Not that there is even anything wrong with that, because who am I to...
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Jason McCarty
- Aug 1, 2013
- 3 min
Can You Accept the World as it Is?
Can we accept that some people won’t get better? Can we accept that issues like addiction and homelessness aren’t going away? Can we...
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Jason McCarty
- Jul 25, 2013
- 3 min
The Power of Walking
I like simple things that have a lot of meaning. I also like utilizing experiences that do not require a whole lot of preparation,...
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Jason McCarty
- Jul 18, 2013
- 2 min
The Legacy of Aging | James Hillman
In the following video, archetypal psychologist James Hillman takes on the important but neglected topic of aging. We have lost a sense...
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Jason McCarty
- Jul 10, 2013
- 2 min
Why Are You Dying?
There is something exciting and rewarding when embracing the fear that comes with “falling forward” (see my article Getting Into Your...
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Jason McCarty
- Jul 4, 2013
- 3 min
The Shades of Our Experience
Curiosity is a word that has been on my mind for months. I try and let it guide both my life and my work with clients. I try and...
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Jason McCarty
- Jun 20, 2013
- 3 min
Why Are You Angry?
We have over vilified anger in our society. Religions see it as a major problem. Psychology treats it like a toddler to be managed....
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Jason McCarty
- Jun 6, 2013
- 3 min
Accepting That Which We Fear
I want to write about the experience of embracing fear, or the very experience which one fears happening. Whether it is the actual...
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