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Schools have reopened in many countries, posing new and familiar challenges for parents. Let’s focus on one: Getting kids ready in the morning. It doesn’t matter if your child’s been going to school for years or has just started, the struggle is real. Many children...

Now that it’s back to-school time, I invite you to think about JEDI warriors. Not the Star Wars heroes we grew up loving. I mean the folk who stand up for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Why is this so important? Because we are far from an inclusive...

There has long been a stigma surrounding mental illness. When we think of this stigma, it is natural to consider the worst version of it – the kind that leads to outright discrimination. However, that’s not what impacts the majority of people facing poor mental health...

“Theater clowning is not a technique but a personal journey to our unique way of experiencing and expressing the clown's "jester freedom." The red nose is the smallest mask in the world. Through our inner clown we experience qualities such as spontaneity and the joy...

Gratitude. A simple word that holds the gift of forgiveness and connection to the present moment. Hard as I try, I don’t remember when I made the decision to live forward. What I recall is a conversation I had with my now departed dad in the summer of 1995. It was...

January 2017, North London. I could hear a group of sixteen year-olds climb four floors of the school’s science building to reach my classroom, chanting: “U gang, U gang, U gang!” My class was composed of twenty-one boys. Boys only – a decision made by senior...

  This blog post talks about self-compassion and mindfulness in the context of mental health and well-being. Much of the research and writing on compassion and mindfulness in Western psychology has been informed by Buddhist teachings and traditions. As part of...

Do you ever wonder why there is so little empathy in the world? You are an empath and wish others were the same, but what comes naturally to you seems foreign to others. This is the same question I asked myself when I studied Counselling Skills in Vancouver fifteen...