The challenge and possibility of deep listening As a counselling therapist, I listen to people everyday. It’s a demanding skill that requires constant practice. Listening is the crux of my profession, but it also feeds my soul and nourishes my mind. I hold a space for others to the best of my ability. Often this
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Finding meaning in mortality Shakespeare described the human form as a “mortal coil” that we shuffle off in death. For Hamlet, life is a dreary work that holds neither mirth nor meaning. To slip the mortal coil is to find release from the sorrows that batter us. Yet, there may be another view of mortality
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Habits for mental health take shape in the ordinary choices of each day. These reflections explore movement, stillness and connection with nature as parts of a flourishing life. Habits for mental health in everyday life People come to counselling because they are hurting. Something has gone awry. A relationship ends, a career stalls, health declines.
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To begin again is to meet the day with fresh awareness. These birthday reflections explore aging, mortality and the quiet possibility in ordinary moments. The invitation to begin again There was a time when birthdays were about cakes, balloons, grainy photographs of toothless children. A while later, birthdays were about friends, campfires, beer-soaked nights at
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Faith without belief asks whether trust can remain when certainty falls away. These reflections consider aging, vulnerability and the challenge of facing our mortality. Faith without belief in the face of uncertainty One of the challenges of growing older is dealing with the panic that comes with time’s passing. The days might be long, but
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The middle passage of life can unsettle familiar sources of comfort and identity. This reflection explores possessions, mortality and the invitation to grow into maturity. Meeting the middle passage beyond possessions A man reaches middle age. Half his life is behind him. The slip of vanishing days catch him in panic. Not long ago a
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Perfect Days invites us to notice the quiet dignity of an ordinary life. Hirayama’s routines offer a reflection on contentment, care and the wonder within each day. What Perfect Days reveals about everyday life Hirayama is not a hero. He is not an allegorical figure who represents the plight of everyman. He is a plain
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Coffee as a ritual of attention and gratitude Thomas Merton once wrote: “I love beer, and, by that very fact, the world.” This statement is at once whimsical and puzzling. How does a fondness for pale ale stray into a confession of love for the world? Perhaps Merton suggests a fundamental relationship between the mundane and the
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Simplicity, sufficiency and the limits of more 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; others are worn thin caring for aging parents. Responsibilities multiply, but the hours remain few. Despite a profusion of duties,
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Nature and mental health meet in the simple experience of noticing the world around us. This harbour-side reflection explores belonging, stillness and the relief of a wider perspective. Nature and mental health in an ordinary city moment I am standing by the harbour, peering past the sailboats and skycrapers into the mountains in the distance.
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DAVID CHANG COUNSELLING
David Chang Counselling is gratefully located on the territories of the the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. David supports and celebrates diversity in race, gender, sexual orientation, language, culture, and neurological composition.
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