ALANIS MORISSETTE up close and personal

I attended The Evolution of Psychotherapy conference in December of 2013 and was overwhelmed with the quality of the speakers and of the workshops that I attended. First rate all round. Many different presenters, both from within and outside of my field, and…

I Touched Hillary!!

Last night The Vancouver Board of Trade hosted a great woman of our time: Hillary Rodham Clinton. I had the privilege of attending this event and hearing her speak (and I shook her hand!).

The title of this blog may imply that I am one of “those” . . . those people…

Exercise Can Heal You!!

“Exercise”, I tell my clients, “will really help you with your recovery”. As I say these words, I am keenly watching their attention and reaction. Mostly I feel like the teacher in Charlie Brown; “waaa, waaa, waaa, waaa” I am sure they hear me saying (immediately after they hear the…

Working Parents . . . Evolving Roles

This post follows a book I read entitled The Hole In The Middle, by Kate Hilton (see my book review on my doctorjen.co website)

The book was a reminder that the modern day dilemmas of working moms and the changing of traditional roles were…

Beyond Mental Illness

I am in shock. Maybe that’s a bit too strong — but close. On a casual Sunday morning my husband tells me to watch a You Tube video. “It’s about my friend, Ken” he says.

I know who Ken is. A guy my husband went to school with. “Poor Ken” he was more fondly known…

SEX

Sex… got your attention, didn’t I?

Why is it that sex is such a basic part of life, yet most people shy away from the topic?

Well thank goodness there are therapists like myself who enjoy the subject, and therapists like the one in the interview below.

Therapy for the Therapist

In therapy school we were taught “every good therapist should have a good therapist or you have no business being a therapist”!

Think about it. Would you want to go to a dentist who had rotting teeth and didn’t believe in dentists? Or who didn’t think they…

Life Offline — The Personal Touch

One of my secrets is the art of the handwritten note. I am intentional about sending a handwritten note when someone refers a new client to me . I am intentional about sending a handwritten note after a client ends with me. I am intentional about sending a handwritten…

Retire Retirement?

In the Wiktionary, retirement is defined as “to designate as no longer qualified for active service”. Really?

I think we need to find a new word for this stage of life, because the people I work with who are in it are certainly still qualified for active service. I…

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

Wow, what a great read! I could not put it down.

Having said that, for some reason I did have a hard time getting into it. But once I did, boy what a great read. So rich in so many ways. A book about love, a book about our family of origin and…