I’ve been reading, listening to, and working on a few things lately seemed to be interconnected in some way. They all are related to being vulnerable or supporting others to be vulnerable in order to help them, and in some cases those around them. Often, too often in fact, organizations, families, and other groups of READ MORE
Category: Compassion
Telling Our Stories So Others Don’t Define Us
Abut a month ago I wrote a blog post about the importance or telling our own stories. I talked about how we should be free to tell our own stories about ourselves and about how others don’t have the right to tell our stories without our permission. Since then I’ve given this some more thought. READ MORE
Mental Illness is Just That, An Illness
I’ve been really open on this site, in talks I’ve given, and even as a guest on a couple of podcasts about the struggles that I’ve had with depression, particularly the bout I had last year. I’m grateful for all the support that I had, the help that I received, and that I’m healthy again. READ MORE
Our Stories Are Ours To Tell
I’ve been co-facilitating a short course for instructors on how to navigate difficult conversations in their classes and one-on-one with students. This week’s session revolved around the importance of stories, including that everyone has stories to tell about their own lives, stories they tell themselves about them self, and stories they tell themselves about others. READ MORE
Cheer For Your Team, Not Against Others
We’re big fans of our university’s women’s basketball team, which is currently ranked number one in Canada. Over the weekend my daughter and I went to two of their home games, for which the visiting team had several fans in attendance. Some of those fans appeared to be in that tween realm that my daughter READ MORE
Resumé Virtues and Eulogy Virtues
I want to start with a caveat – this post is neither about religion or politics. I am however going to mention both to get to the point of the post. My daughter will soon be starting to prepare for her Bat Mitzvah. I am not a particularly religious person and I only go to READ MORE
‘Life Should Be About More Than Just Surviving’
Well I did it. I stayed off of Twitter and Facebook, and away from my work email for two weeks, and I enjoyed it. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I’m not adding any of that back on to my phone. They’re all on my iPad, but I don’t carry that around with READ MORE
Someone Else’s Shoes
One part of my job is advising instructors on creating their course outlines, or syllabi for those of you who are used to academic parlance. Those are those things that students get at the beginning of the term telling them what they’re suppose to do in that class, how they’ll be graded, and other such READ MORE
Hmmm … Not Bad
I’ve written several times about weekly reviews that I do to reflect on how my previous week went, including what went well and what I could do better in the future. I also set some goals for myself for the week based on that. I do this every month too. I get short-term views out READ MORE
Respecting My Boundaries
It’s Victoria Day here in most of Canada so it’s been a lovely long weekend with my family. This afternoon my daughter has a baseball game, which I always enjoy going to and helping coach at. She’s the only girl on the team and has certainly earned the respect of the boys by being both READ MORE
