Our bodies carry a deep intelligence. They remember, very deeply, the turns that our lives take. We can dream of people with such vividness, it is as if we can reach out and touch their faces that are stuck in time, and yet, we may have not seen them for decades. How? What is…
Today we go all the way to Australia to find and speak to this incredibly dynamic therapist, Isiah McKimmie, who is a sexologist, couples therapist, sex therapist, and coach. If you want to find out what a sexologist is, you’re going to have to wait for the interview. It is a huge pleasure to have…
I had the pleasure this week of speaking to the brilliant Dustin Atlas on the podcast. At some point during our conversation, I remarked to Dustin that I think most of the time my job is helping people be disappointed. The reason this came up is because Dustin and I were talking about the work…
I was once attending a conference in downtown Toronto and the theme of the conference was the entry problem: how do we enter into psychological material? There’s a whole philosophical tradition, most notably at present taken up by a German psychologist and philosopher named Wolfgang Geegref who relies on a way of looking at psychology…
Great Sex Does Not Lead To Great Intimacy, Great Intimacy Leads to Great Sex – Dr. Sue Johson Sex is often a place where couples connect and can be one of the first places where couples start to feel distant which in turn can cause a lack of intimacy. It can be…
As my guest today, Dr Mitchell Smolkin says, “Placebo gets a bad rap”. Yes, that’s right, I interviewed Mitchell Smolkin, another Mitchell Smolkin, who has also had a lifelong interest in how human beings suffer and wrote a book about it over 30 years ago entitled “Understanding Pain: Interpretation and Philosophy”. What was…
When I was doing my research for this podcast, I came across a book online that had been written by Mitchell Smolkin. But this book was not a book that I had written. The name of this book was called Understanding Pain: Interpretation and Philosophy and had been written over 30 years ago when I…
I recently had the opportunity to do an interview with my son Gabriel, who is 10 years old. The discussion with him was very moving for me. He opened up about parts of our relationship that I never knew and also shared with me some hurt that I caused him that I was aware of…
I recently took some vacation and decided for a part of it, a week to be exact, that I would unplug from work completely. For some of you, this may seem like a no-brainer, but to others, there may be some fear that is evoked at the thought of completely shutting things down. I fall…
I spent the last little while focusing on parenting but at the same time, considering the theories in psychology that support our understanding of human development and how that can inform us as parents to either make decisions that shift our behaviour or to reflect on them with our children. In that light, It was…