For me, happiness arises and subsides to the degree that I practice "the cultivation of healthy habits". These healthy habits exist in three domains of activity/being: Getting-Growing-Giving. With getting, I enjoy the pleasures of things; with growing, I live in the zone of flow-based engagement; with giving, I identify with "something larger" than myself while… Read more ...
Have you ever asked yourself, "How am I ever going to get through this"? In our existentially saturated lived lives most of us have and will again. "How" is a statement about process. "Why" is a statement about purpose. Paraphrasing Nietzsche, "give a person a why and they will endure any how". So if you're… Read more ...
Ever wondered what your first visit to a psychologist's office might look like? It's really no mystery. The art and practice of psychology is about creating a safe space for two human beings to make meaning through meeting and talking. Your engagement with a psychologist for therapy or counselling (counseling) will begin with a discussion… Read more ...
Common sense says that each of us is or has a self. But having a self isn't about possessing something that is static. It is about intentionally and lucidly participating in the emergence of something that is dynamic. The human act of "selfing" is our most precious renewable resource. Yet, how does one go about… Read more ...
All of the great traditions, teachers and texts tell us, in one way or another, that the joyful, meaningful and happy life can be realized by each of us. The difficulty in achieving this goal is that by habitually thinking about life I remove myself from the act of life. Life is more of an… Read more ...
