Why Aren’t Most Men, Men?
Throughout most of history being a man appears to have been reasonably straightforward. As you grew up you were surrounded by men doing their…
Eating By Colour: a New Approach to Food
As a psychologist working with children and adults with eating problems I hear two frequently asked questions: “what am I supposed to…
Being Seduced to Induce: What Women Should Know About Their OBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12BG_bWVW4c
Marsden Wagner, MD, talking in the documentary, The Business of Being Born
Women will only agree to…
Is It Good For The Kids?
The real bottom line on the balance sheet. How much is a child worth? How much is our time with them worth? How much is a family worth? In our modern culture,…
Redefining Authority
The other day I was speaking to a friend of mine while we were picking up our children from school. We were chatting while the children played together.…
A Society At Odds With Family
One thing this job has forced me to do is read, inquire and ultimately open my eyes. Each day I am reading articles and excerpts about the state of our social…
Origins
Every one of us felt some pain as a child — whether it was from carelessness or abuse, the death of a parent, divorce or the loss of a sibling, or just simply…
Are You a Good Witch?
‘Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?'
(Glinda, the Good Witch of the North)
‘I'm not a witch at all.
I'm…
The Power of 2
When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you…
Deep Downshifting – living a life of no regrets
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to…