Even though anxiety is a very unpleasant thing to experience, not all anxiety is a obstacle when it comes to coping with every day life. We have some choice in whether we suffer, especially when we know how to take care of ourselves. How much anxiety is tolerable is a complex interaction of deep…
Have you ever been gas-lighted ? *to gaslight someone is a term that came from the movie Gaslight. People can lose their mind when other people deny their reality. After that experience, you may never have trusted sharing your real feelings. You may have learned to mask, repress, and hide how you really feel because…
I’ve always used Tarot cards as a counselling tool, because they uncover what we consciously repress because it is too hard to deal with. When trauma or stress is at the heart of the issue, our brains can round and round thinking the same thoughts. Thoughts such as “I am alone”, “Nobody loves me”, “I…
The mind tends to create opposite states and see its own experience as separate from others. This is a natural tendency to create judgements and it can help us to organize, sort, classify and arrange. However, this natural tendency can be a great hindrance to us, when it comes to understanding our self and others.…
Love without respect is like eating white sugar. It is a toxic trip – an addiction that depletes all love.
Our birth is an act of faith. To be born we have to have great faith. Every cry of an infant is an act of faith that her cry matters. Every step that we walk is an act of faith. Our entire life is an act of faith. Yet, faith is not automatic. It is…