Barbara's Blog

Let go, terminated, laid off, downsized, declared redundant, canned, axed, transitioned out, sent packing, fired… the list is endless....

Debbie Ward was 7 years old when she survived a kitchen fire that left scars on 70% of her body. At the age of 9, she asked her mother if...

Clients often complain about feeling stuck - in a job, in their studies, in relationships or in their lives. And yet, no matter how...

While we may not want to admit it, we all do it. When we meet new people, we tend to size them up within a matter of minutes, even seconds.

It's happened again. Despite our best-laid plans, and the greatest of intentions, we find ourselves scrambling to complete a task at the...

Lately, it feels harder to drown out the voices of the bullies and the haters. Intolerance for anyone who doesn’t believe, look, love,...

Our need for safety is core to our survival. In order to keep ourselves safe, our nervous system alerts us to possible dangers. When we...

Johann Hari was 18 when he was first prescribed antidepressants for depression and anxiety. Initially, he felt better, but then he...

At first, we got creative, baked bread, banged pots on balconies and believed that life would soon return to ‘normal.’ But then, it didn’t.

According to Statistics Canada’s latest tally, there are 731,900 unfilled jobs across the country. While some have speculated that this...

In 1980, Dr. Vincent Felitti, head of Kaiser-Permanente’s Department of Preventative Medicine in San Diego started an obesity clinic.

As we emerge from this long, protracted, global pandemic, many of us are expressing a strong desire to get back to ‘normal.’

Predictions of a Baby Boom following a year of frequent lockdowns have not borne fruit. In fact, the rate of separation and divorce has...

There is an old saying that seems particularly apropos these days. Man Plans, God Laughs. Despite our best efforts to follow through on...

To say that 2020 has been a stressful year would be an understatement. A global pandemic, struggling economies, political and social...

Three factors that contribute to chronic insomnia.

When I first wrote about it six years ago, Toronto's youth unemployment rate was at 18.1%.

We have all failed in our lives and will continue to have failures in the future, because we are not perfect.

It's never easy to be turned down. We build up hopes that someone that we like will like us too, but it turns out that...

While we may complain about people's sense of entitlement, in many ways, it is a healthy way of asserting ourselves.