Grieve, Honour and Remember
Two weeks ago I received the phone call we all dread - get home as fast as you can....and so I began my cross-country journey to get home in time to say a final good-bye to my mother. When I walked off the plane at midnight in Saskatoon, and saw my father waiting for...
What Would You Do Differently?
If you had your life to live over - what would you do differently? It's a provocative question to think about. Dr. Tim Lau gets to ask that question everyday - and the answers he gets may surprise you. Watch the third interview with Dr. Lau and let me know what advice...
Having Control – Is It a Key to Happiness?
A lesson learned from Dr. Lau's patients is that happiness does not depend on whether or not you have control of your life. It is not so much control over events but our attitude towards those events that have an impact on our level of happiness. In this interview,...
Why I Do What I Do
On Friday I had the delightful opportunity to work with a number of individuals who were finishing up our Fit Minds Cognitive Coach Certification course. We spent the afternoon reviewing the materials and the Interact program. They all had different reasons for taking...
What is Happiness and Can You Buy It?
Dr. Tim Lau, geriatric psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health unit has been speaking all around the country on the topic of happiness...so much so that he now has the moniker 'The Happiness Doctor'. He has looked in-depth at the whole idea of happiness and...
I’m a Professional Caregiver – and You’re Not!
It's really important to be professional and aim for excellence in your chosen field or occupation. But each profession has its Achilles heel...where professionalism become 'professionalitis'. We've all experienced it - where the treatment we receive makes us feel...