Recently, while arranging a local government ‘meet the candidate’ event, someone questioned whether an independent emcee might have an unconscious bias towards one or more of the participants. Now, I thought the whole ‘unconscious bias’ train had finally arrived at its final station. It appears that I am sadly mistaken. It has been bandied around […]
A long time ago I heard a psychiatrist define anxiety as the “fear of something that has never happened, but you fear it might”. Hence we get anxious. So, anxiety has some form of future focus.I have been using this definition to help client delineate between stress (which he defined as “the fear of something
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Recently I have been chatting with some clients and discussed with them how they should be like a shark. By that, I mean, they should just keep moving; even if it is slowly. You see that if most species of sharks stop moving, the drown. They need water to move through their gills to provide
I am not a young man, I am closer to 60 than 16, closer to the end than to the beginning; and it is for this reason that I was reluctant to take on teenage clients. I often wondered what wisdom I would have to share and help them. How wrong I was. Over the
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On New Year’s Day, I played Tommy (the rock opera) by The Who on my community radio show. Listening to the show, gave me the idea for this blog post. If you are unfamiliar with Tommy, it is the story of a boy who witnesses his father commit a horrible act, and his mother convinces
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G‘day folks Over the past few weeks I have been discussing what I call the 60-30-10 approach to life. I would like to say that this is an original idea…but it’s not. My problem is that I not recall where I heard this. It might be Jordan Petersen, Jay Sherry, or Chris Williamson. If you
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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche During World War II, Viennese psychiatrist Victor Frankl was held captive in several Nazi death camps. During this time he was able to view other prisoners and determine if someone was able to survive their experience or not based
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I have been following Triggernometry for a while now. They have interviews with great people. This is another one. Well worth a watch.
This is a great video to look at what alcohol does to your body.
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Any substance that we put into our bodies, be it food, drink, or drugs (prescription or otherwise) has an effect on our body, brain and our behaviour. Some have positive effects, others negative. In this post we will discuss how illicit (illegal) drugs have on our brains. Illicit drugs are categorised as stimulants, depressants, or
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