Simple on Purpose

03/24/2025

Hard and Awesome is many things for me . .
- It is a dinner conversation with the kids
- A personal reminder for my day
- An existential conversation about the bigger picture
- A tool I share with my therapy clients

Hard and Awesome. This is one of my favourite sayings and concepts that I like to teach my clients. It is the concept that EVERYTHING is hard AND awesome. Hard means you're doing it wrong.... or so I thought It was a notion I learned the long and messy way, the martyr way. I couldn’t

03/21/2025

What are your thoughts on this?
Is it an act of rebellion to ENJOY your ACTUAL life?

One concept I love to bring into ‘life on purpose’ is the idea of simple pleasures I’ve shared on this over the years and would also share my current simple pleasures on the podcast episodes. And, I don’t mean the things we turn to for self-comfort and coping. I mean the simple pleasures - t...

03/13/2025

Hello Simple on Purpose friends!
I am doing some personal research on how clients feel about therapy.
If you have done any therapy before, your feedback is valuable to me!

Anonymous public survey on the client experience of therapy/counselling. Collected by Shawna Scafe for professional research on the topic of Feedback Informed Therapy.

02/18/2025

Our thoughts and beliefs come from our upbringing, our experiences, our culture and our caregivers.

12/22/2024

Getting mentally pepped up to pull out the sewing machine and add another ring of Christmas PJs on the kids' stockings

The Christmas PJ stockings are our own tradition that my kids love. But I didn't always love them. Because I constantly forget how I sewed them the year before, and spend hours fighting with bobbins and stitch rippers to get each year's PJs added. But here we are, with a tradition of putting a strip

12/20/2024

Managing difficult times and difficult relationships during the holidays.

This is part 2 of the situations that can feel tough around the holidays. We explore how we deal with grief, family dynamics and clashes and ways we can take care of ourselves and look for ways to enjoy what is available to us. Tips from a counsellor to consider for the holiday season.

12/18/2024

The holidays don't always feel easy.
Here is some support if you are in a season where the holidays feel hard.

I asked listeners to share the tough scenarios they expect to encounter during the holidays and Christmas. I will start with Part 1, going through the themes of scenarios and sharing an idea on a shift you can try to make this season, from a counsellor's perspective. The goal is to give you some too...

05/10/2024

New episode on the podcast - improving our relationships by understanding how we make judgements and assumptions of others

We all make assumptions and judgments of others - but did you know there is a bias we have in our judgements? This bias shows up in all of our relationships and it can create an opposition and divide in places we actually want empathy and compassion. In this episode we explore the Fundamental Attrib...

04/12/2024

New episode! FINDING BALANCE THROUGH ENOUGH

Our relationship to ‘enough’ can show up in all the areas of our life. Whether we struggle with discomfort, self-worth, setting limits, or offering ourselves more – we all can consider how the concept of ‘enough’ and ‘sufficient’ can play out in our minds, hearts and lives.

https://simpleonpurpose.ca/balance-of-enough/

03/23/2024

03/19/2024

The latest episode is up!

There are seasons in life where we feel like we have lost ourselves, especially in motherhood. We might feel stuck and like we aren't enjoying our lives. I want to talk to how we can move 'away from pain' or 'towards pleasure', and some simple ways we can bring delight and passion into our daily