“Hey, you! Yea, you! Why you trying to be so perfect? Who do you think you are anyway? Do you really think you are going to work so hard...

Psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994) wrote quite a bit on the issues of our existence as human beings, especially subjects such as...

Anger is an interesting emotion. I would say it is widely experienced and seldom understood. Anger is often vilified by our society,...

There is not much else that gets in the way of what we want other than FEAR. Fear can be debilitating, exhausting, and down right...

People come to counseling for all sorts of reasons. Everyone brings with them different goals, expectations, hopes, and desired...

I believe a major problem in how the general public, as well as some professionals, sees addiction is that it is too narrowly defined....

When we think of love and relationships what do we think of mostly? Experiencing love. Finding love. Being loved. At our deepest levels...

What if you are already living the life you’ve dreamed of? What if you are already the person you most admire? What if you were able to...

Along the lines of the title of my column, Antidotes to Emptiness, I wanted to write about one way to bring fullness to our lives....

I’ve written a lot about having compassion toward those struggling with addiction and that we need to remove a lot of the moral...

Harm Reduction is a philosophy that is surrounded with a lot of controversy, confusion, and intrigue. What is it? What does it really...

I recently read some articles for therapists addressing the needs of men in counselling. This is an area I have been thinking about for...

When someone struggling with addiction has a relapse it can feel like the end of the world – for both themselves and their loved ones....

Who is in your way? What is in your way? Are you looking for more freedom in your life? What might that look like if you could wave a...

Peace is found, not through repressing experience, but through acceptance of whatever comes up. (Thomas Bien in his book Mindful...

One use for addiction in a person’s life is to fill up the emptiness. We all do many things to fill the “hole” in our lives. I have...

What is counselling? What goes on in a counselling session? It is just for those with real messed up lives, right? No, not true. It is...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but much to do about addiction is very dramatic. Addicted people themselves can often be dramatic, those...

What is addiction exactly? Is it using drugs? Is it being drunk too many times in a week? Is it eating more than one should, or surfing...