FOR A MORE PROFESSIONAL LOOK...

check me out on my grown up site: www.therapytoronto.ca lots of cool other therapists on there too, oh and try not to judge the photo, it's very, very fishbowl lens.

WHY YOU NO CALL ME?

I know it must seem odd that a phone therapist has no phone number listed on her blog or flyer. However this is just my little way of screening people and keeping my phone time efficient, otherwise as mom used to say, why would anyone by the cow if they can get the milk for free (my mom actually never said that, but it seems to be an urban myth that mothers do). In any case please feel free to email me at ASKAGNES@YAHOO.COM tell me a little about why you are seeking therapy and i promise to respond uber promptly!

NEW MISSION: DOING NOTHING

There's a good section of the population who are already very good at this, if this is you, go do something productive. For the rest of you, i'd like to invite you to the promised land, it's called Nada-landia. The place of doing nothing. Monks do it and how wrong can they really be? They live to be 300 years old. Make no mistake, it is an art. It requires just enough energy not to fall asleep but not so much energy that you end up thinking. Taking my lead from Eckhart Tolle (http://www.eckharttolle.com/), it starts with not labeling or naming anything but just experiencing it. Try not saying in your mind, now i'm going to go lay on the couch, just experience laying on the couch-you will see how very different the two are. I've gotten pretty good at it, but sometimes i do get jacked up about this or that and need to be reminded that there's only ever this moment. And being present in the nothingness IS being present in all of it! Now go lay on the couch and do nothing, that's an order!