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When people use the word respect, what they are often actually referring to is power and not respect at all, in the true sense of the word. Bear with me as I elaborate on this notion. The distinction between the language of power and respect is something I became aware of a few years agoContinue reading “The Distinction Between Power and Respect”

When I tell people what I do for a living, I often get responses along the lines of: “I don’t know how you do the work you do”, “wow, that must be so hard”, and “good for you, I would never be able to do that kind of work”. Like anyone, I sometimes get lostContinue reading “Mountains, Gratitude, and Stories of Resiliency.”

The beauty is the pure, amazing vulnerability that defines our very humanity. That vulnerability only has harming effects when one tries to escape it and run away from the sense of being open and exposed to the world. The harming effects come from the self-sabotaging attempts of desperately proving that one is not the beautifulContinue reading “The Beauty that Hides Behind Self-Harming Behaviours”

Last night, I had a very interesting and intellectually stimulating conversation with someone that involved a lot of debates about concepts in theology, religion, politics, psychology, philosophy, and more. It was the kind of conversation that left me thinking a lot about the truth-seeking nature of human behaviour. What is the truth about life? IsContinue reading “The Mighty Pythons and The Meaning of Life”

1. Scrunch up your face by drawing your eyebrows together and tightening your lips (imitate image on the left). 2. Any time you interact with someone, be skeptical and maintain a certain level of emotional distance. 3. When someone addresses you, pause before answering so that you can process your judgments and let it showContinue reading “Top ten ways to take yourself really seriously”

http://www.nfb.ca/film/people_of_kattawapiskak_river/ It seems like a surreal experience. It was the Winter of 2008. I was living in Vancouver, completing my Masters in Counselling Psychology, wondering if it was really the right career choice for me as I was working in the education system with “at-risk” youth. I put at-risk in quotation marks because it’s terminologyContinue reading “Life On The Reserve and The Reason I Tattooed The Word Inspire On My Arm”

Start 2013 with one simple commitment of bringing change to a pattern that doesn’t contribute to a sense of wholeness and thriving for you. Be you. Rather than focusing on something that you want to do, accomplish, achieve, or succeed at, pay attention to a way of being you wish to practice so it eventuallyContinue reading ““It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them” ~ Alfred Adler”

I’m not joking you, I have literally had this ridiculous thought before. Maybe I don’t use the word spandex. Not only has this idea crossed my mind, but I’ve gone to the extent of spending an hour in lululemon trying on a variety of yoga apparel at $80+ a piece, only to ditch everything inContinue reading “Hmmm… Maybe some new spandex will make me a better yoga teacher!”

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system”. The WHO attributes persisting health inequities – the unfair and avoidable differences in health status – to social conditions which are shaped by the distribution of money, powerContinue reading “Yoga and the Social Determinants of Health”