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I have a very special friend, who is a fantastic counsellor/art therapist, but yesterday, she was telling me about a friend of hers who is a hypnotherapist and how she believes in power of the mind and that every day if we just believe in our ability to believe we have new cells every day, or words ...

If you were bullied as a child, one of your core beliefs might be, “I am weak.” Counsellors can uncover their clients’ core beliefs and then encourage their clients to try new behaviours and entertain new thoughts. Our core beliefs follow us into adulthood. If you are bullied as an adult, your couns...

Lifestyle assessment is a tool designed to identify an individual's core beliefs (about self, others and the world), his/her rules about life, and the goals that have been set. I find it particularly useful when an individual appears to be stuck in the therapeutic process. Freud’s contemporary, Alf...

My family relationship couldn’t be worse than this I’m going to lose the only fortune I have! I believe they are the reason I got MS! Because I grew up in a chaotic environment with totally different personalities which was extremely stressful and difficult… I can’t forgive them for who I’m or what...

Counsellors like myself who use Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) believe that people’s thoughts and feelings are not determined by a situation (usually a stressful situation), but by their interpretation and construction of the situation. If you feel that your neighbour is being a jerk or that your...

In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl notes that in the concentration camps, when men had lost all hope, they turned to religion. People who are dying do the same thing. It is as though they rely on their religion to see them through the difficult times. In spite of the physical and me...

Do you consider yourself to be a religious or spiritual person? Both? Neither? Does your belief impact how you handle living with MS? As for me, I am a deeply spiritual person, who is not overtly religious. My spiritual beliefs have been a great comfort to me on my journey with MS.

Sigmund Freud developed dream analysis as a way to explore his patients’ unconscious. He started with analyzing himself and used his own dreams to construct his dream analysis theory. Freud believed that everything we dream is pre-programmed by the unconscious life and death instincts we each carry ...

Almost 5% of Americans have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Melchert. Foundations of Professional Psychology). I assume this is also true for Canadians and furthermore, I assume that 100% of people who live with MS have anxiety. The study of the causes and treatments for anxiety have been around as lo...

Ni sa bula vinaka (A warm hello in Fijiian - but I reckon you lot already knew that), - Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I feel markedly better today. And than you for the many felicitations I have received. I appreciate them. - I watched the MS Society webcast with Prof Evangelou...