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Have you ever rediscovered a part of yourself that you didn’t know was missing? Well, I have. It was 7 years ago. December 2009. After going to bed late on a Saturday night, I woke up Sunday evening in an emergency room with a neurologist by my side. I had a grand mal seizure during…

When I was a little kid, I would always ask questions. I got really good at it too! So good in fact, that whenever I asked a question like “How does a TV work?” my father would have me read a book about and then write a short summary about what I had learned. Fast…

One of my favourite books is one called The Flinch by Canadian entrepreneur Julien Smith. In the book, Smith talks about how boxers are trained to avoid flinching when their opponents strike them, and instead proactively move toward the thing they most fear, in order to improve. The book comes with several practical exercises for…

I read once that 1% of what we are is visible and touchable and the remaining 99% of us is a lot of something else. That’s a lot of us that has nothing to do with what we look like. And if we think about all the changes our physical body goes through, it’s ridiculous…

There were residents who lived on the sunny side of the nursing home, and others who lived on the dark side. I worked as an aide at the nursing home, for only half a year, a job in the hiatus of my career; but it was over the brief span of this experience, that the…

Forget everything you think you know about ministers and church. Okay, how do I do that? Church as my Dad referred to it was a place hypocrites met to act all sweet and nice in church and then in the parking lot after service they would gossip about other church members. So, imagine my discomfort…

In my blogs, I often highlight the importance of the language we use when communicating about mental illness – whether at work, around family and friends, or in school. Today, I would like to take the concept a step further and share the 5 common traps to avoid when discussing mental illness: 1) Referring to…

I have a question for you. Are you living the life you truly desire or are you living life by default? That’s a big question, right? One that most people rarely consider. It’s a serious issue. So often we are presented with situations and circumstances that make it seem as if we have little if…