By Dr. Sally Torkos (Clinical and Research Psychology PhD with 30 year clinical practice) Since February is the month of Valentine’s day, the day many of us celebrate romantic love; I thought it fitting to write an essay on love.  We all have love stories to tell, even if we’ve never been ‘in love,’ because love […]

By Dr. Sally Torkos (Clinical and Research Psychology PhD with 30 year clinical practice) Since it is now the beginning of 2020, I thought the best way to begin the New Year would be to examine the topic of Purpose. When I’m writing these essays for you, I’m also writing for me and am affected (as […]

Written by Blaze The “aha!” moments are a time – for me – when suddenly boom! you are stopped in your tracks, your mind stopping in its regular train of thought, so something new can enter your fold. They come with a realisation of a new or different truth. It is the entering of air. […]

By Dr. Sally Torkos (Clinical and Research Psychology PhD with 30 year clinical practice) In her book Grateful, Diana Butler Bass discusses how often we do not really know what it means to be truly grateful for something.  She makes it clear that she is not referring to obligatory gratitude (which she calls cheap gratitude); but […]

ANGELA THIESZ just sayin’… I live in a garden on a hill… I love it. All my five children were born into this house. When I was expecting my first child, I felt that this is where paradise should be. The house was built in the valley, a good, cool house. One side is covered […]