I meet clients who come to therapy when they are hanging by a thread.  Their careers are unforgiving, academic pressures unrelenting. Parents are walloped by the rigours of child-rearing;...

I am standing by the harbour, peering past the sailboats and skycrapers into the mountains in the distance. A bar of sunlight lifts the hillside, cold and deep. Clouds curl into flakes and break over...

In my clinical practice, I often meet clients who are at odds with themselves, caught between one commitment and another. They wrestle between aspiration and duty, self-care and care for others. There...

Festive lights during the holiday season brighten up the long cold nights, but the shorter days can dampen our moods and spoil our outlook. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is the common name for a...

Every meditator experiences ebbs and flows in practice. There are times when awareness arrests us, engulfing us in crystalline stillness. Other times we brace against squalls of the anxiety. Sometimes...

The bamboo forest appeared surreal and fantastical. The vertical, segmented columns rose into feathered tops that swayed in the wind, the path covered by long, papery leaves. I hiked the forest in...

The Talking Cure   There is little to do here But speak Tremulous at first Uncertain whether there is enough light under the sun To counter the darkness of your secret, Whether your dreaded...

For many living in western societies, modernity brings with it the blight of busyness.  Stress weighs us down; the onerous demands of studies, career and family can leave our bodies neglected and...

Imagine the following: A mother laments her relationship with her adult son.  “I am constantly thinking of my son.  I cook and bring over food.  I gave him the down payment for his first mortgage. I...