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by EK Wills This week was one to test anyone’s patience. And so I was glad to learn about a specific type of therapy that includes skills training on aspects such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation. These are part of a type of therapy called dialectical behavioural therapy or DBT. It was initially developed by Marsha Linehan for people suffering what is labeled borderline personality disorder and, interestingly, she was a sufferer herself. But DBT has now been advoc

By EK Wills “I can only find myself in and between me and my fellows in a human conversation” Robert Hobson This week I discovered The Long Conversation. That is to say, I learned about it(1) and it seemed to fit like a glove. I have always been a talker and the idea that conversation can be so useful and necessary resonated well with me. We as humans live in a world of language and symbols as much as we do in a world of immediate physical surroundings. As such, all human int

By EK Wills I recently discovered that a good friend of mine is suffering circumstances that you only expect to hear about in the news or in families in less fortunate situations. But she and her husband have respectable jobs, own their own home and have 3 children at good schools. She has not experienced physical pain but endures psychological abuse indiscriminately and is fearful in her own home. It began insidiously with her husband working long hours in a stressful job so