“Be careful with your thoughts,  for they become your words.
Be careful with your words,  for they become your actions.
Be careful with your actions,  for they become your habits.
Be careful with your habits,  for they become your character.
Be careful with your character,  for it becomes your destiny.”
Anonymous

Here at psychologicalhealingandyoga.com we look forward to offering information and support that will be meaningful to those who visit.   Consider filling out a few questions at the site’s very first online survey!  Perhaps doing so will have the result of making a difference in your life down the line.  Or perhaps it will make a difference in the [...]

During the day I work as a therapist and Yoga teacher in a community mental health office located 40 minutes North of Vancouver, Canada.   I love my work as it offers me the opportunity to be with people struggling to overcome personal challenges that may be in the way of their living more fulfilling [...]

You live on earth only for a few short years
which you call an incarnation,
and then you leave your body as an outworn dress
and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.”
~ White Eagle ~

As a beloved family member prepares to make her journey to her true home in the spirit, I’m [...]

The best way out is always through.  Robert Frost
Ever wondered if there is anything you can do to grow out of the psychological conditions labelled ‘addict’ and ‘trauma survivor’?  Well, there are.  Eventhough each carry the burden of feeling trapped in a world of unending pain and suffering, each also hold the potential for relief [...]

We are designed to separate things into dualities:  this and that, black and white, up and down, good and bad, pain and pleasure, etc.  This is the dualistic mind’s way of seeing.  It sees in opposites as it gazes within to the interior relm, and as it gazes outward to the physical world around us.  This is the perceptual place [...]

What is recovery all about anyway?  What does it mean to recover?  What was lost in the first place that needs recovering?  Webster’s online dictionary defines the word recover as to regain, as in, ‘to bring back to a normal position or condition’.   This implies a movement back to a place of origin.  What would this place [...]

What is trauma?  We hear the word bandied about in the mental health community or at 12 step meetings, but what is trauma anyway?  Simply put, it’s someone’s subjective experience of a disturbing life event.  It overwhelms a person’s ability to cope and leaves them feeling as if they’ll be harmed by someone, or that they’ll loose their mind.  You [...]

Have you ever experienced resistance to what it is you really want?  What you know will be good for you and the forward movement of your life?  I have, and hope I’m coming out of it now . . . that is the resistance to the development of this site.  For months I’ve been able to do nothing more than [...]

While I love my blog, its progress has been slow. It’s been slow for a variety of reasons including having sufficient time outside of my full-time day job to make quality posts. Its been slow too because I’ve been learning the hard way through trial and error that my technical knowledge of how to make a blog [...]