My wife Crystal put me on to the book The Code of the Extraordinary Mind 10 unconventional laws to redefine your life and succeed on your own terms by Vishen Lakhiani. I was not aware of Lakhiani’s work, but he is one of the most influential personalities in personal growth today. A computer engineer and […]

One of my clients encouraged me to read Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. I had the read the book years ago in university but this time, two points struck me particularly. Aside from the obvious account of man’s inhumanity to man. The first is his assertion that you can take everything away from a […]

The Midlife Unraveling Brene Brown is a professor at the University of Houston as well as a five times New York Times bestselling author. She calls it midlife unraveling rather than a midlife crisis – crisis implying an intense, short-lived, defining event. Midlife unraveling is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, […]

We have been brainwashed about relationships. They are hard work. Real love is romantic love and relationships don’t really work anyway, etc. In fact, statistics seem to support these conclusions. In Canada, something like 40% of marriages end in divorce. Many of the remaining 60% are in hot relationships (a lot of fighting) or in […]

Getting the Love You Want – Imago Relationship Therapy In 1988, Harville and Helen published the first edition of Getting the Love You Want, which has sold over 4 million copies. In 2018, they republished the 30th-anniversary edition of their book. Within that time frame, they have trained over 2500 Imago Relationship Therapists in 53 […]