Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in…
The Toronto Globe and Mail in an article this morning cited research by Dr. Patricia A. Boyle and her colleagues at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and published in Psychosomatic Medicine, tending to empirically confirm something that case studiess and counsellors have…
He woke up one day, and realized that he didn’t recognize his marriage, his partner or himself. He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through…
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning to add some posts to this blog that are built around quotations from Carl Jung, in addition to the posts that are my own reflections. This is because I think that Jung’s own thoughts and language…
Maybe you know this person, or maybe it’s you. When it comes right down to it … who DIDN’t lose a lot of money in the Fall of 2008? However, the person we’re describing thought that everything was going great financially, and that they were in investments that were…
One of the larger age groups that come to me for therapy are people who are at or right around the age of 45. © Aleksandar Nikolov Dreamstime.com This is not entirely surprising to me. For many people at this age, there is a…
Recently, I saw an excellent production of Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya, presented by Toronto’s dynamic Soulpepper Theatre, which opens up powerfully issues at midlife and in the second half of life. Soulpepper opened up this play in a particularly insightful, poignant and empathic way. Their interpretation reveals…
I’m enjoying the process of writing this blog on a regular basis, and having the chance to communicate with all of you about different aspects of what it is to be a therapist and a Jungian in Halton and Peel Regions in this continually surprising…