Why isn’t everyone talking about this? That’s the loudest thought in my mind as I reflect on my experience doing a full-day Holotropic breathing group workshop in Toronto this...

In the first part of this blog about inherited trauma, I explored ideas and family stories about the ways that our genetic past echoes in the background of our...

I’ve been thinking a lot about family trauma lately – the patterns that we inherit from our parents, and what we can do about it.  On one hand, it...

  “In everyone there is observed supreme love of oneself”  – Ramana Maharshi   Narcissism is a fascinating and increasingly popular idea. It is a prevalent condition that most...

I recently saw an article about how millennials are diagnosing themselves with mental health disorders via information on social media, largely naming TikTok as the source.  Seems hardly surprising,...

As I write this, it is getting to the end of January – firmly in the midst of what is, so far, a fairly bleak and dreary winter here...

Anyone working with me in the last year or so has likely noticed the shift in my language as I talk to them about their ‘parts of self’.  I’ve...

I feel like the word ‘obsessed’ is really overused these days.  Like, just because you really enjoy cross-stitching or caramel lattes doesn’t mean that you are obsessed with them. ...

Trauma is like this:  imagine that when you are young, you experience a shockingly bright light, and you don’t know how to deal with it.  But others around you...

Imagine you are living a thousand years ago, in a part of the world that completely believes that the world is flat.  And imagine that you are a sailor,...