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By EK Wills Being a talker, my ears always prick up when I learn of ways we connect that help us in life. I read that a… ‘study of people living in Alameda County, California, for example, showed that people who had close friendships and marriages lived longer than those who didn’t. This was true independent of such factors as diet, smoking, and exercise.’ (The Relationship Cure) And this week I learned, that for many years, a hospital in Finland has almost radically treated

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