The problem with all the diet plans available today is that they simply don’t work. Yes, some of them will enable you to lose weight temporarily, but if you’ve ever gone on a diet you know that sooner or later – and usually sooner- you’ll gain all the weight back, plus a few extra pounds. […]
I’ve been talking to some of my patients lately about their adventures in on-line dating, and they’ve been complaining about two different but related phenomena: men who come across as insufficiently interested right at the beginning and men who seem far too interested from the get go. One of my patients, Shelly, told me a […]
I was talking to my patient, Natalie, the other day about her struggles with overcoming compulsive eating. She told me that after years of becoming increasingly heavy, she was afraid that she’d “never be able to stop eating.” We spoke about how powerfully she felt the pull of food, and that it was almost as […]
I had a conversation with a high school teacher the other day that disturbed me. She described a practice on the part of her school administration in which final-year students could go and get their marks raised by several percentage points if they were trying to get into a good university or a professional program. […]
Many people today are, at best, ambivalent about intimate relationships. These individuals have been hurt in their childhood, by parents they counted on for love and support, or they were rejected in their adult lives by people they loved. As a result, they approach intimate relationships with trepidation, often inadvertently sabotaging their chances at love […]
I’ve been talking to some of my patients lately about how to maintain a good relationship, once they’ve found the person they want to be with. We’ve discussed some attitudes and behaviors that they’ve carried with them from their early lives and how some of these aren’t necessarily conducive to success in intimacy. For many […]
In my creativity and empowerment group for women the other day, we were having a very interesting discussion about the fear of criticism. It turns out that many of the participants were afraid to put their artwork out into the public space, because they didn’t feel they’d be able to tolerate the nasty criticism they […]
Too many of us have a hard time trusting other people when it comes to our intimate relationships. Maybe it’s because we weren’t treated well as children, or perhaps, we’ve been hurt in love. The good news is that even if one or both of these is true for us, we can still learn how […]
According to recent estimates, there are between 500,000 and a million feral cats in Toronto. This is the result of people failing to spay and neuter their pet cats and then abandoning the kittens on the streets. Cats are resilient and resourceful, to a point, and these ferals live long enough to have several litters. […]
Lately, Canada has been in the news a lot, and not for any good reasons. First, last week, human remains were being sent to members of our political parties by a crazed young man who had murdered his lover in Montreal.He also had a penchant for torturing kittens and posting videos of these depraved acts […]
