Sleep is so incredibly important to one’s health and well-being. There are numerous studies that show how sleep deprivation will adversely affect the quality of one’s life and one’s health. Yet often people will make sleep the one thing that they will deprive themselves of in order to accomplish something that really has no effect […]
Trust
I find that trust is a big thing in life. Many think that it is something that is automatic until such time as it is broken. But trust is something that, like forgiveness, needs to be earned, otherwise the one we are putting our trust in can easily disregard it as unimportant. At the same […]
Becoming a Better Gardener
The other day at the greenhouse I was shopping at, I was in line behind a young woman (these days almost everyone is younger, so that is how I describe them…it has nothing to do with anything other than my own age) when she saw the sign on the counter by the till that said, […]
Solitude
Things are very quiet around the city of Saskatoon. Traffic is at an all time low, businesses are winding down for the mass hysteria of isolationism due to the corona virus. Soon restaurants will be shut down. The Juno awards were also cancelled. Sports events have also been cancelled and leisure centres are now closed. […]
Face the Fear
In the counseling part of my practice I am often finding that folks know that they need help with a particular subject matter, but often want to skirt around the issue so as to avoid it for as long as possible. They try to insert other issues into their time with me so that we […]