CNN Turning Points
I’m excited to share with you a segment that CNN did on me for their “Turning Points” series! If you like it, I’d love it if you could share it with your friends 🙂 You can watch my segment here: CNN Turning Points
The Flat Tire
When I was eleven years old, I had an old road bike that I found in the back of the garage. There happened to be a fabulous rectangular configuration or roads in our neighbourhood that made for the perfect circuit, complete with hills, curves, and straightaways. All summer long I rode this circuit, over and…
One in a Million
When I was twenty-six years old we had a family crisis on the west coast of British Columbia, so I moved there to take full-time care of my niece until the situation sorted itself out. Two months into my stint, my truck insurance was about to expire, and I mentioned to my sister that I…
The Connection
By the time I was in my late twenties, I had already been going to psychologists for a decade, had consulted numerous New Age healers, and read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I was still young, but desperate to figure out the root of my unhappiness before it threatened to extinguish…
The Universe Far Away
A long time ago, in a universe far away, I was born into intergenerational trauma. I lived in the dysfunction of this for almost two decades, and then it took me two more to bring myself out of what I like to refer to as “the aftermath.” If you’re wondering what this aftermath looked like,…
The Anatomy of Addiction
A child is born, and in the whirlwind of his parent’s lives he feels isolated and alone. The only time he feels connected to his mother is when he makes her laugh, so he develops his sense of humour and comes to rely on her laughter as his strongest bonding experience. His body grows along…
Blue Jasmine
They say that every character in a Woody Allen film is a reflection of his neurotic self, and Blue Jasmine is no exception. Kate Blanchett gives a superb performance playing a woman who goes from “super-wealthy socialite” to “broke middle-aged divorcee” after she calls the FBI on her real-estate mogul husband when she finds out…
Nature vs Nurture
It’s one of the greatest philosophical debates in the world, and THE fundamental question in the mental health field: Is mental illness a hardware problem (faulty wiring), or a software problem (running faulty programming?) In the first instance, there is no cure except drugs, which is not really a cure because when you take the…
Death Grip
Benzodiazepines are some of the most efficacious, and addictive, pharmacological meds on the market. They are just one of a plethora of “legal drugs” that get prescribed to millions of people, all over the world, every year. The most famous drug in this category is Valium, and housewives took it in droves when it first…
The Cult of Self
Every reality is valid. Free choice is sacrosanct. There are many levels to our being, and these all have a purpose. It is only when one of these levels gets out of balance that we need to take a second look. Right now, Western societies subscribe to what I refer to as the Cult of…