Irreverent, off the cuff notes to self, written by a slightly eccentric therapist.
Relationships are a lot like cars – they require maintenance and care. Imagine what would happen if you never changed the oil in your car, never replaced the brake pads, or replenished the transmission fluid. Your vehicle would stall out or freeze up. The worst case scenario? Your engine would…
Many people think men are less romantic than women. Yet Men fall in love faster because they are so visual! Men tend to be more dependent on their g/f’s and wives for intimacy. Men are over 2X more likely to kill themselves when a relationship ends. Men show just as…
A man came for counselling today. For the purposes of this writing, I will call him Jake. I do so to protect his privacy and as well as a Therapist I have pledged an oath of confidentiality. Jake said he came to counselling because his wife is always mad at…
What does it mean when someone says, “I am in a rut?” It is when your life is the same all the time and nothing much is changing or happening. Someone else said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing or ways over and over again and expecting…
Life is a string of stories. My father was a story teller. Not by trade, mind you, but in general conversation he would most often have a story behind his point. In the last 16 months of my father’s 92 years on Earth, I spent many an hour listening to…
I’m often stunned by the lack of questions that adults are prepared to ask. When you see kids go on a field trip, the questions pour out of them. Never ending, interesting, deep… even risky. And then the resistance to do so kicks in and we apparently lose…
The holidays are a perfect time to reflect on the many gifts that we receive all year; the gift of life, health, friends, family, love and hope. When our focus is off we tend to get the “After Christmas Blues”. It normally stems from selfishness and disappointments. We get…
I don’t use the stairs I ride the elevator one floor down to the underground garage where I park my car. It’s not a long ride to the garage floor—not enough time to reading all the new graffiti; and, as luck would have it this day, I was the only…
Anger is a problem that can cause some real hiccups in your social life. Not only social but your professional and personal life suffers from it big time if your wrath is getting out of control. In these times you need some serious help and that help can be…
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