Why Apologies Fail
I spent a long stretch of my own life apologizing badly. Not insincerely – badly. I meant every word of it and I still wanted the conversation to end, and those two things were doing battle in the same sentence. It took me years to notice the second one was winning. So when a parent […]
Why Your Kids Don’t Want to Spend Time With You: Five Core Reasons
This subject has hit close to home for me lately. Not in my own house. In the sessions I work in, sitting with parents who are disconnected with their children. Most of the low contact and estranged parents I sit with arrive with the same sentence, and it usually comes out quietly, near the end: […]
The Power of Your Language
I want to show you how powerful your language is. “I’m afraid of dogs,” was what a woman said, as she walked into my new Chiropractic clinic in downtown of Vancouver and saw Lucy (my dog, who is with me 24/7.) You see, Lucy is absolutely harmless and cute as hell. But this woman has taken […]