On June 26 and 27, the leaders of the G20 nations and numerous other nations met in downtown Toronto. For many living in this area, what happened in the course of those two days has something of the character of a nightmare in the collective psyche of…
A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life. Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the horns of a major dilemma, with a decision to be made between…
It’s very striking how the figure of Marilyn Monroe sometimes comes up in individual therapy. Few people have gripped the imagination of popular culture as she has. An iconic and fateful figure for both women and men. A figure combining elements of both the erotic…
The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year: I doubt that questions get much more real than those in this song. And the question that Peggy Lee sings about here is of…
In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of “taboo” about it. For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater and greater demands on our personal…
Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration
Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham “Up in the Air”, directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel (“322 days…