A Balanced Life: Hope
Hope For as long as I can remember I have been sharing with the parents I have worked with, the importance of validating young people’s...
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donshunter
- May 5
- 1 min
A Balanced Life: "Noticing"
During the height of the pandemic, I believe we were all pulled a little closer to our own mortality, as-well-as to those we love dearly....
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donshunter
- Apr 21
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Strengthening One's "Observing Self"
Within our mind's abode, our observing self has been present and available, since our beginning. Defined as that conscious part of our...
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donshunter
- Mar 27
- 1 min
A Balanced Life: Resolution-Focused Practice
There is a ritual I have come to practice, when I have issues (problems) that require attention and/or a solution – and there are many of...
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donshunter
- Mar 18
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Neutralizing That Inner Critic
When you have promised yourself that you will have a balanced and happy life, there are constant hurdles that one has to negotiate. This...
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donshunter
- Jan 24
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Out of Control
I can only 'balance' that which is within my control - what transpires outside of my immediate world, is not something I can change,...
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donshunter
- Jan 12
- 1 min
A Balanced Life: Relationship Adjustments
All close relationships require adjustments from time to time - sometimes more often than other times. When we get busy with work and...
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donshunter
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Achieving Balance
For many of us when we think about balance, we want to see things as equal. However, when considering balance in our lives, it is...
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donshunter
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: The Slippery Slope into Negativity
I often speak about the understanding that most of the conversation we each have, are with ourselves. I bring this up because when we...
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donshunter
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Sifting Through the "News"
We used to have the radio on most of the time when the kids were younger, which meant that news updates were frequent. Each morning we...
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donshunter
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Living with Chronic Daily Pain
How can one achieve balance in the midst of pain? Is that even possible? I believe there are times when such a sense of balance is...
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donshunter
- Oct 29, 2022
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: Regulating Emotions
One of the core beliefs in Emotion Focused Therapy is that it is our emotions that drive us – its emotions that start our internal engine...
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donshunter
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
A Balanced Life: Co-Parenting
Negotiating significant relationships in one’s life is always an ongoing task, a work in progress, that impacts one’s self-esteem. When...
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donshunter
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
A Balanced Life: Balance in Parent/Child Relationships
There are not many parents who don't struggle with how technology is impacting the lives of the growing children. Over the past 10 years...
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donshunter
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
A Balanced Life: Attachments
In this ever increasing digital age, parents are in danger of losing parental power and control. Social Media continually pushes kids to...
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donshunter
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
A Balanced Life: "Clinging & Suffering"
We often want to hold onto happy and joyful times, as long as we possibly can, and when they pass, we hold onto the memory. We want to...
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donshunter
- Aug 15, 2022
- 3 min
A Balanced Life
A Balanced Life: "On Balance" (Weekly Blog by Don S. Hunter, 2022) Reducing the Impact of Stress and Anxiety When I think about a...
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