What “The Replacements” Taught Me about Accepting and Loving Myself

I don’t know how many of you know about this movie called The Replacements. It came out in the year 2000, starring a young Keanu Reaves, playing the role of a football quarterback who came in to play as the original team was on strike. Maybe it was the fact that I was young and […]

New Tank Syndrome

There’s this term I read about, called “New Tank Syndrome.” This term is used by dolphin trainers to describe what happens when a dolphin is put into a new tank. What happens is that the dolphin is distracted by its new surroundings, and suddenly doesn’t respond the same way to training and trained cues. It’s […]

The Foundation of Every Healthy Relationship

Boundaries have been coming up for many of my clients lately. There are so many considerations around what to do and how to respond. There’s the desire to be polite, be nice, make everyone happy. Then there’s the desire to honor what you want and don’t want to do.

On Letting Go

In the realms of personal development or religion, “Letting Go” and “Surrender” have similar meanings. Both involve releasing your expectations, releasing your desires, and taking things as they are. Accept what is and what is not. 

The Value of Rest & Recuperation

There is such a push by modern society to do more, sleep less, accomplish great things! Even the phrase “live life to the fullest” carries with it certain implications: