Sheila Gabel, Master of Arts in Counselling, Canadian Certified Counsellor, Registered Clinical Counsellor

I’m currently reading Love is a Verb: How to Stop Analyzing your Relationship and Start Making it Great by Bill O’Hanlon and Pat Hudson. The title of the first chapter made me chuckle: The Codependent Cinderella Who Loves A Man Who Hates Women Too Much. There is nothing wrong with thinking about our relationships, discussing [...]

Many people have told me over the years that they don’t like to journal. One reason that comes up is that they find it depressing and they sometimes feel worse after writing. Through discussions of their journalling practices it often emerges that the only kind of writing that they do is of the so-called venting [...]