Slave Lake: Resilient Community

by Patricia Morgan on May 21, 2012

T-shirt slogan: I LOVE Slave Lake, One Year Stronger

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Basic Listening Skills

by Patricia Morgan on May 19, 2012

The Basic Listening Skills described below only require a commitment and a wee bit of practice.

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Listening

May 19, 2012

How do we begin to listen with empathy, not with apathetic uncaring demeanor nor with smothering, “poor you, pity you” messages? First, we can begin with Stephen Covey’s most quoted phrase of “seek first to understand the other.” It is the seeking that is key to offering our attention and presence.

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Body Awareness

May 8, 2012

Your body doesn’t lie.  Listen to it. 

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Youth Resiliency: Out of the Darkness, into the Light album

May 3, 2012

Inspirational Speaker and International Best Selling Author Troy Payne teams up with high school students in creating rock music with a message of healing. Aside from Sorrow is releasing their debut album; Out of the Darkness, into the Light.

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To Lighten Up

April 24, 2012

Humor can help you sustain a more positive, upbeat attitude while dealing with daily hassles. Every now and then, reflect on different situations and ask if you just might have taken yourself a little too seriously. It might be time to lighten up!

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Celebration of Life

April 17, 2012

. I often leave memorial services inspired to live my days to their fullest . . . and often more consciously.

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Every Little Nobody Is Somebody

April 6, 2012

If ever you feel like a nobody–down and out, discouraged or unacknowledged–consider watching this 1935,  just over six minute, cartoon video of Betty Boop .   Every Little Nobody is a Somebody:

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Counselling Does Not Work to Strengthen Resilience

April 5, 2012

Counselling does not do the work. The counsellor provides some information of what appears to NOT be working and offers alternatives. Improvements happen when the client trusts the good will of their partner and themselves, commits to do The Work of improved problem solving, mutual-support and communication, and then does The Work.

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Feelings: Move Out of Painful Ones

April 3, 2012

I can learn to contain and appreciate how I feel.

Authentic feelings inform us of what we want, what is important to us, what we value, what is working for us and what is not. At the same time, feelings tell little, if nothing, about other people or the external world. We need our fine brains and observation skills to figure out our external life. Feelings are experienced through the body’s systems of muscles, nerves and organs.

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