Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Phil Lane Jr.
A wise elder once told me, "Grandson, the longest road you will ever have to walk is the sacred journey from your head to your heart." Another elder said, "We will never solve the many critical and life-threatening issues before us solely through the intellect; for every problem the intellect solves it creates ten more."
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- Written by: Marelin the Magician
Radiating the resonance of unconditional love is the intention of all those who have attracted this message. You have come forth to teach one another to stay with the love, no matter what the conditions hold.
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- Written by: Diana Coholic
With art, you have all the colours in the world to share your thoughts,” wrote one youth in the Holistic Arts-based Program at Laurentian University.
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- Written by: Sue Patton Thoele
|I know from my own life, and as a former therapist, that family foibles and failures can be excruciatingly painful. For many of us, it takes great strength to heal from childhood wounds.
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- Written by: Martin Lenz
Philosophical discussions, whether in a professional setting or at the bar, frequently consist of calling out mistakes in whatever has been proposed: ‘This is all very well, but …
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- Written by: Matteo Farina
While most of us intuitively understand what others find interesting, there’s a growing body of research on online engagement and the characteristics of viral content.
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- Written by: Edward Lemay and Michele Gelfand
Imagine that you’ve had a heated argument with a co-worker, and you call up your husband or wife to talk about it. Your partner can react in one of two ways.
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- Written by: Sonia Choquette
A common childhood fear is fear of the dark. Many children become terrified of the dark and can't go to sleep in a darkened room alone, convinced the "bogeyman" or some other night creature is waiting in the shadows to get them. I had a client whose son was terrified...
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- Written by: Alan Fiske
Some emotions you seem to recognise the moment you feel them – you know when you’re angry, surprised, embarrassed or jealous.
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- Written by: John Robbins and Ann Mortifee
Despite the degree to which sexuality permeates the culture, the collective guilt of history can still be felt. We have been socialized to be suspicious of pleasure, to live removed from our bodies, and to maintain a tight rein over our feelings. In a culture riddled with guilt...
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- Written by: Dan Mamlok and Sandra Chang-Kredl
Disturbing events related to cyberbullying in recent months and years have raised great concern among parents, youths and educators regarding the everyday lives of children in online spaces
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- Written by: Nikki Martyn and Elena Merenda
Disappointment is a natural human emotion that occurs after a perceived failure.
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- Written by: Jamie Gruman
During the holiday season, we are faced with social commitments that sometimes means spending time with people who grate on our nerves.
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- Written by: Elena Merenda and Nikki Martyn
Imagination and play encourage children to think through hypothetical situations and create new worlds
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- Written by: Mark S. Tremblay and Mariana Brussoni
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decline in Canadian children’s fitness seen over the past 35 years
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- Written by: Jo Aldridge
Most children look forward to the Christmas holidays as a time for fun and families. But for some young carers – children who provide care for someone in their family who is ill or disabled – the Christmas holidays are a mixed blessing.
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- Written by: Mary Catherine Lundquist
Family caregivers and people with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease are at risk for increased stress during the holidays
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- Written by: The School of Life
Beneath most fights is an attempt to get the other to respond to your emotional reality and sense of justice.
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- Written by: by Kelly E. Johnson, M.D.
I have asked people to list all of their important possessions, from top to bottom, and they all invariably come up with similar lists. Houses, cars, furniture, stocks... and other material goods usually rank highly. Then I tell them that they have overlooked the number one valuable commodity in their life...
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- Written by: Alan Seale
“Relationship” can be defined as “a state of connectedness between two or more energies through a physical or a non-physical space.” Everything exists or happens in relationship to something else. Nothing exists or happens in isolation.
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- Written by: Luke Zaphir
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems experience as the best way to acquire knowledge.
