How many of us have said to our friends, our partners, our coworkers, or our therapists, “I just want to be happy.” This seems to be the absolute attainment if we can get there. If we can just get to happy, then everything will resolve itself and everything will be…
I have been doing a bit of reflecting on why I do what I do. It has been a couple of years since I started Vivid Psychology and I have been thinking about what I had wanted for it and now what it has become. I picked the name vivid…
Living the good life. What does it look like and what does it feel like? Thomas Jefferson said that, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are our fundamental rights. As a counsellor, I know that many people are not experiencing a personal sense of well-being and are living lives…
Albertans have been waiting for the price of oil to go up; a signal that the economic and employment crisis will be over and we can all go back to normal, to the way things were. And while the price of oil is up and we are hopefully seeing the…
I would like to challenge the common belief and mass marketing sell that is insisting that our jobs become careers full of passion, meaning, and fulfillment. Is it fair to put such grand expectations on our jobs? Why do our jobs need to be intricately connected to our calling and…
Nico mentioned to me awhile ago when I was setting up Vivid that he thought that the word VIVID “calls up an image of being alive and vigorous, which I think we all should be, and that is what I hope for our clients to have vivid lives.” This has…
Welcome to Vivid Psychology. Vivid was created with a simple purpose in mind; to help people heal from past experiences, experience positive personal growth, and to help them to realize their strengths to live their best possible lives. We believe that each of us has the ability to make positive…
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