Conversations with Gottman Therapist Winnipeg
Here you will find conversations on topics that matter: nutrition, stress, sleep, relationships, movement, and, my favourite topic, habits...Scared to be Alone but Not Wanting to Leave the Home
The baby boomer generation (born between the years of 1946 and 1964) has caused a considerable rise in 55+ and assisted living residences to accommodate the elderly moving out of their primary homes. But how about the baby boomers who don’t want to leave their primary...
How to Help Your Kids Emotionally, Mentally, and Spiritually
Want to ensure your kids will grow up to be happy, successful adults? Do you also want to ensure they become confident individuals? Do you remind them that kindness to themselves is just as important to those they meet? Perhaps you dream of them being the athlete you...
Work Life Balance
I don’t know about you…but I have always felt to be a failure at this. It has caused me to be in a cycle of shame. It also made me question my values. In one sense, my values are founded in everything related to family, such as emotional connection and nurturing....
Dealing with Shame in Therapy
Many clients come to me feeling down. They are in a rut of sorts. Some feel angry because they are in a funk and they do not know how to deal with it. They often feel the world and all its ugliness (failure with online dating, dealing with an unhappy marriage,...
Is Menopause the Only Reason My Wife Seems Absent?
The short answer is no. Perhaps she is using menopause as the reason why she seems distant from you and has no interest in cuddling or having sex. Menopause is a huge health transition for women to go through; physically, mentally and emotionally. Estrogen plays a...
Buyers, Sellers, and Relationships
When you are in the business of relationships, always remain the buyer. It doesn’t matter what type of relationship you are in; owner-employee relationships, intimate relationships, parent-child, etc. if you have the mindset of the buyer, you will do well. Let me...
Why Women Especially Need to Use Caution Before Signing up For Coaching
You probably have a friend who either signed up for coaching or perhaps decided to become a life coach. Coaching is not new, but since Covid, it especially became popular because of many women needing to stay home to homeschool or possibly losing their jobs and...
I Think, I Can
Life is great until it isn’t. Your life can change on a dime. Whether it is the end of a relationship, caring for a sick parent or child, your own diagnosis, a pandemic, job loss, body image, or constant bouts of anxiety…none of us are immune to this. So why are we...
It’s Interesting How We Dislike Pain…
And yet, it is what promotes us to make a change. A change that often appears to be for the good. I have rarely seen anything bad come from change. It just sucks that we have to go through ‘the journey of self-inquiry’ to get there. Why do we need to go through the...