Posts Categorized: sport

Physical Injury and Its Effects

I recently came across an essay in the Globe & Mail, by varsity rugby player (and med student) Yingtong Gao. It’s an excellent illustration of what happens when physical injury disrupts our relationship with our body. You can read it for free here. As someone who has worked with and written about athletes and injury,… Read more »

When Compulsion Doesn’t Work

As well as being a therapist, I’m also a published author. I mostly work on novels, but have also published short fiction and personal essays. Speaking with an artist/friend a while back we agreed that, for those of us with a professional artistic practice, its not really a decision per se to create. It’s more… Read more »