Being Kind to Perfection
Usually I am a superb driver, but with my sister and my nieces in the car, my level of distraction a...
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The Purple House: Learning to Forgive Yourself
My favourite colour has always been purple. When I was in elementary school, living in a boring, g...
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The Importance of the Question
I love commercials that make an interesting philosophical point. One that aired recently in the Unit...
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Working Toward Psychological Health: Prioritizing treatment goals based on a definition of psychological health
When working with individuals who have treatment resistant depression and have an over controlled pe...
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Yikes, you want me to do what? I’d rather wait until later
Are you the kind of person who gets really excited when a person hands you a gift, you open it immed...
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Overcontrolled is a term that I’ve come to discover describes me well
I was born with a temperament that generally makes me leery of risk taking, I tend to inhibit emotio...
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Learning About Friendship: Lessons from Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Recently, my 14-year-old niece was visiting and overheard me talking about Radically Open-Dialectic...
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Heat on/Heat off
Most people can recall a childhood memory that stands out as significant in terms of pleasure or pai...
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Why Too Much Self-Control Can Be a Bad Thing
Self-control refers to our ability to restrain acting on momentary urges, impulses, and wants in fav...
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No One Saw It Coming: Out-of-character acts of violence
Have you ever read those newspaper stories about the shy, quiet, caring individual who has killed, ...
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