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Walking Through Walls
There is a delightful, fanciful prose-poem by Louis Jenkins; it’s called, appropriately enough, Walking Through A Wall. Jenkins draws the reader’s attention to the wall texture, how to approach the wall, his experiences with walking through walls, and the feeling of exhilaration when the Wall-Walker emerges from the wall: “The best approach to a wall… Read more
Where the Magic Happens
Sometimes our clients’ resistance is about staying in that place in which they are most familiar, the way it’s always been, the status quo, the ‘beast they know.’ That place is also called the Comfort Zone. There appears to be a safety component to staying where we know we can’t get hurt, where risk seems… Read more
Motivational Reinforcement ~ The Beauty Patch
One of the more intriguing advertizing initiatives launched by Dove was its Beauty Patch enterprise. For the past decade, Dove’s Real Beauty campaign has used female empowerment as an advertising tactic, an apparently altruistic strategy to entice customers with the concept that women are more beautiful than they think they are. The Beauty Patch crusade… Read more
Sparking Behaviour Change from Self-Relationship Realizations
From our experience, it seems like many of the health issues that our clients present to us – dietary habits, struggles with body weight, smoking behaviours, oral health behaviours etc – are less about those particular manifestations than they are about deeper issues. We would offer that these are more symptomatic behaviours that stem from… Read more
Being with, or Busting Stuck-ness
Sometimes, our clients can have an overwhelming feeling of being stuck or overwhelmed or helpless. And sometimes that feeling is a result of past experiences or stories that they have made up about their situation. Consider this humorous example of how devastating such perceptions can be…