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When it’s Time to Shift Priorities

By Suzanne On August 15, 2017 · Add Comment · In Self-Growth
I’m a perfectionist. Always have been. And sometimes it drives me crazy. Like most ‘Type-A’ people, there isn’t enough time in the day to be a perfectionist about everything, so we often prioritize areas of our lives where our standards need to reach their highest, and those where we can allow the ‘good enough’ standard [...]
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The Importance of Maintaining a Healthy Distance in Relationships that Matter the Most

The Importance of Maintaining a Healthy Distance in Relationships that Matter the Most

By Suzanne On February 8, 2017 · Add Comment · In Relationships, Self-Growth
As a psychotherapist, I often meet individuals, couples and families who at first describe the relationships that matter the most in their lives as ‘very close’, ‘tight’, and supportive. But later, after understanding the issues that brought them to my office, I view them more as insular systems that nurture – or even demand – [...]
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No more ‘Thinking About It’- Make a Decision to Take Action Today!

No more ‘Thinking About It’- Make a Decision to Take Action Today!

By Suzanne On December 7, 2016 · Add Comment · In Conflict Resolution, psychotherapy, Self-Growth
Never making the decision you know you need to make has been called ‘analysis paralysis’; ‘sitting on the fence’; ‘considering your options’; ‘waiting for the right time’ (when there is no right time); ‘not wanting to rush into anything’; and, in new age lingo ‘being kind to myself by NOT making a decision’. OMG, really? [...]
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Adults Teaching Children: The Legitimatization of Bullying

Adults Teaching Children: The Legitimization of Bullying

By Suzanne On November 3, 2016 · Add Comment · In All Posts, Bullying, Conflict Resolution, psychotherapy
When I was in Grade 4, I struggled with an ability to read, especially when asked to read in front of the class. I wasn’t dyslexic but I was quite shy, and not at all confident about my intellectual abilities relative to my peers. Unfortunately, I had a teacher who, I discovered many years later, [...]
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