Moved to Vancouver and feeling alone? Explore practical ways to build connection through routines, shared activities and low-pressure conversations.
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A Necessary Change Steven is a forty-year-old man who has worked in IT for the last 17 years. Having grown up in a family with little money, he started to work part-time as a teenager. He worked his way through college and moved straight into a tech position with a local company. Industrious by nature,
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Our minds are over-taxed, our energy dissipated across too many activities. But there is hope. . .
Brain-Fry: How Multi-Tasking Leads to Burnout Read More »
2026 will be known as the year when Big Tech met its reckoning. In March, a jury in California found Meta and Google liable for negatively affecting a young people’s mental health by designing addictive platforms that keep users scrolling. In August, Meta settled a lawsuit brought together by a coalition of states who accuse
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I often see clients who are struggling with the cumulative demands of life. It seems that modern life is inimical to human wellness. Work, parenting, academics, quickly eat up the hours of the day, leaving us fatigued and spent. For responsible, functioning people, busyness happens by default. Our sense of responsibility seems to open the
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Mindfulness practice has been around for over 3000 years. Sometimes people use “mindfulness” and “meditation” interchangeably. We can think of “meditation” as a more formal practice, as in practice that requires a form – such as sitting in a cross-legged position – and mindfulness as a more relaxed way of practice, something we can do
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We live in a society ruled by technocratic elites. Their latest preoccupation: immortality. For Silicon Valley tycoons, the prospect of life ever-lasting is no more than a question of advanced engineering, scientific knowledge, and technological mastery. In their innovation-driven subculture, immortality is merely another point in a long line of technical challenges bested by human
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Shakespeare knew well the fundaments of human vitality. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the inevitable devastation when one is deprived of sleep, a most basic physical necessity. After murdering King Duncan, Macbeth realizes that his guilty conscience will give him no rest until he is reduced to dust. He bemoans sleep’s departure: Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no
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Facebook was founded in 2004, Twitter (now “X”) in 2006. The Apple iPhone was launched in 2007. Since those seminal years, wireless devices and social media have dramatically changed the world. Glowing screens dazzle our eyes. Our devices have become extensions of our bodies, reshaped every facet of our lives, from classrooms to newsrooms, from dating to cooking. More
The Verdict Is In: Social Media Is Detrimental to Your Mental Health Read More »
The past year has been tumultuous for the world. In a span of weeks, things seemed to have further fallen into disaster. Carnage, destruction, chaos spread like vicious ripples across the globe. Conflict in the Middle East has seen widespread bloodshed, environmental devastation, disruption to commerce, political upheaval, and a stupendous shock to oil prices.
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