Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been the talk intervention of choice for treating mental illness for decades. The basis of this treatment is to get the client to take an honest look at the thoughts, feelings and attitudes underlying their belief system so they can decide if the stories they believe about themselves and the…
Have you ever felt like you were navigating life without a compass, as though there were no absolute bearings any more, only vague signposts? Well I spent most of my teens and twenties in that state, without really knowing what the problem was. Then one night in my early thirties I was sitting in my…
There is a lot of finger pointing going on right now over the state of the economy. Governments blame the financial industry, banks blame the defaulted citizenry, and the citizens blame both. But the actual truth is that we all participated in this mess that we are now finding ourselves in. While it is true…
I recently watched the Millennium Series, that trilogy of films out of Sweden based on the novels by Stieg Larsson. I am always interested in why certain films or series are so popular with people, and these films gave me much food for thought. You could quite accurately describe these films as being a case…
Many women think that they don’t understand money and finances, when in fact they have never been encouraged to do so. Understanding the ecomony is easier than most people think, but it is not easy if you intend to learn about it from mainstream media. Here, there is adisconnect between the dots, unspoken truths that…