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| Creating more Happiness |
| Building the Relationship you Want |
| Discovering a Career that Fulfills You |
| Becoming fully alive |
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| Creativity |
| New perspectives & understanding |
| Long lasting, concrete results |
Researchers at North Dakota State University found people who wrote about upsetting periods in their life became healthier. Julia Cameron uses daily journal writing as a foundation of her popular program, "The Artists Way" to stimulate creativity. Many counselor training programs use a program of daily journal writing and monthly summaries to help trainees work through their own issues before helping others with their challenges.
Perhaps the expression "talk is cheap" reflects how easy it is to say something without thinking or really believing. Talk leaves no trace of what has been said, and is easily forgotten. When we write, we have a concrete map of where we have been and where we want to go.
Sending notes back and forth with a coach, is like mapping unknown dense territory that you want to explore. As you try different paths or ideas, you note what paths are efficient and which ones are dead ends or too difficult. From different vantage points, your perspective can shift. As you fill in the blank parts of your map, the best route to take becomes clearer. Similarly, in reading over your notes, patterns emerge that clarify your best direction .
For more information on the benefits of writing, see my co-authored article in the "Journal of Counseling & Development" - Letter Therapy: A Model for Enhancing Counseling Intervention
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Focusing on your present situation, rather than copious delving into your past |
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Brainstorming with you to find your solutions |
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Providing new skills and a sounding board for your ideas |
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Helping you clarify your values and priorities |
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Encouraging you to move from thinking to action |
"Jan, you are often in my thoughts. I want you to know that I have always appreciated how helpful and encouraging you were during the years that I was just starting up my business. I don't think I would ever have got as far as I did without your help." Cindy , Freedom Adventure Tours
"It's amazing. I told you that I loved playing with my son, reading to him and teaching him French, and you saw that I would make a successful and happy business woman running my own French Preschool." Thank you, Madeline
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Professional membership with the BC Workers Compensation Board |
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Author of "Becoming Your Own Counselor" |
| Co-author Letter Therapy: A Model for Enhancing Counseling Intervention |
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Twelve years experience in counseling practice & leading Success Teams |
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British Columbia professional teaching certificate |
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Volunteer reassuring phone calls and visits with seniors |
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Extensive experience with those in mid-life change |
After teaching for eleven years, I completed a Masters in Counseling Psychology in Victoria, Canada. Here I studied Jungian therapy and gained experience in a supervised setting at Divorce Lifeline, leading support groups, at a holistic health center, and at Citizen's Counseling Center. I counseled in schools, trained peer support teams and then co-directed the counseling for 900 staff of Camosun College. Since 1993, I have focused on private practice.
My happiest moments occur when I help people create
a new beginning in happiness, health, relationships or career.
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New! Fun Fitness: Better Health through Activity & Food Awareness: Tips to energize and slim with enjoyment rather than deprivation that's doomed to fail! |
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Traveling with Teens to Australia: A humorous look at teenagers wanting to leave the nest and how to support them! |
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Superwoman and the Beach Bum a light hearted personal look at stress and what we can learn from our interactions with this common problem |
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See
a recent article on Winter Blues by Jan Cadieux.
Are you feeling depressed and lacking energy? If you are living in the
northern hemisphere you may be suffering from Winter Blues... find out more. |
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