Happy New Year! Welcome to 2006! So, where did 2005 go? I hope it was everything you wanted it to be. But, maybe like my life yours had some rough spots. And, maybe that’s too kind a word for the crappy, sucky, bloody awful things that happened. Sometimes shit happens. There I said it! Let’s…
I’m just back from four days in beautiful Lake Louise . Four days of eating, resting, walking, eating — and, did I say resting? I knew before I left that I was tired. But, I didn’t realize how tired I was until I slowed down. How often has that happened to you? Worse yet, how…
John Sarno says , pain is created by the subconcious to distract us from emotions that need/want to be released. If that’s the case how do we deal with pain that has that orgin? Why care? Why not just ‘put up with it’? Or, "tough it out’? You can. You can keep going in spite…
Here’s the link to John Ratey’s Shadow Syndromes. Remember: prices are in Canadian dollars.
I have a rather large collection of non-fiction books. Well over a thousand. Many fall in the self-help, psychology, personal growth categories. Every once in a while, as I’m sitting on the chair that’s parked in front of the bookshelf containing the self-help collection, I glance through the books. That’s how I rediscovered John Ratey’s…
Check out The Mindbody Prescription if you want to understand how repressed emotions create pain.
Everytime I go to the library I wander past my favourite sections: Mysteries, Careers, and Self Help, to see what calls me. The other day I happened to spy a new, well new to me, book by Julia Cameron. It’s called, "Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity." While floating in a hot…
The title of this post may seem strange to non-Artistic types. So be it. In my work, over the last 20+ years, I’ve noticed that creative professionals often struggle with a question of identity. Why does this happen? Here are my reasons (feel free to supply your own): You have many talents/gifts — at least…
Should I undergo Career Testing? This is a common thought during the Plan phase of the career process — especially for multi-talented, creative professionals. It’s one thing if you know that you have a talent, say for golf, and if someone like dad recognizes you do and then nurtures it, as happened with Tiger Woods….
When reading When The Body Says No I was struck by Gabor Mate’s description of many pain sufferers as "strongly independent" and able to endure a great amount of pain. One who might be called stoic. His words so fit my experience. The phrases, "suffer in silence", "tough guys don’t cry", and "suck it up….
