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Posted: January 19, 2022
Our culture prefers the rational and logical, the ‘unbiased’ view that is ‘untainted’ by emotion. While emotions can taint our perspective, they are vitally important pieces of information that can inform and shape our decision making. And it is not a matter of a binary…
Posted: January 3, 2022
The window of tolerance is the range in which we as humans are able to function most effectively. When the brain perceives a threat that it can fight or flee from it is likely to go into a state of hyper-arousal, in which you may…
Posted: December 13, 2021
We live an a society and culture that is individualistic and has this mythology of ‘self-made’ me, pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, etc. I even hear it sometimes in mental health or recovery communities, this idea that we should not need or desire others’…
Posted: December 6, 2021
December 3, 2021 was International Day of People with Disabilities. I think many would be surprised by some of the following statistics: 2 in 5 adults aged 65+ have a disability 1 in 4 adult women have a disability 2 in 5 transgender adults have…
Posted: November 30, 2021
I have been posting a lot about finding a the right therapist because I know that having a therapist you can feel comfortable with is the single most important factor in your healing. It matters more than type of therapy or therapeutic orientation of the…
Posted: November 29, 2021
In 1975 Edward Tronick conducted the ‘Still Face Experiment.’ In this experiment the mothers were coached to have a ‘still face’ with their child, in other words they were expressionless and unresponsive (facially or emotionally) to their infant. It found that the infants would make…