Wise Mind Psychology

Simple yet powerful.

In this time of global suffering, we are each challenged to find tools and means to cope personally and collectively. The practices of mindfulness and compassion can be a rich refuge. Check out this recent talk by Dr. Tara Brach on how to cope mindfully with this immense challenge we are all facing with Covid-19. Stay physically distant, emotionally connected, and in all ways safe !

Wise Mind Psychology is hiring! We are currently looking for a registered clinical psychologist (autonomous or supervised), psychological associate, or graduate students in clinical psychology interested in joining our growing practice in Vaughan. Candidates should have a strong foundation in evidence-based interventions (CBT, DBT, EFT, etc). Supervision is available. Please pass along to anyone in your network who might be interested and thank you in advance!

As we prepare to bid farewell to 2019 and welcome 2020, here is a short and lovely story for you to reflect on. In the coming year, may we each strike a balance between striving for positive change and growth, and recognizing and being thankful for the wonderful things (and people) already in each of our lives. Happy New Year! An Orange ************************* By Joel Ben Izzy... When, as a young man, he boarded a bus in Los Angeles, in a sullen mood he took a seat reserved for the handicapped and elderly. After a while, a very elderly man boarded the bus, asked him to move over, then looked him over carefully and reflectively. Pulling an orange out of a shopping bag, the man asked Joel, "what do you think? " Joel curtly said, "it's an orange." Again : " But what do you think?,""It's an orange." "You don't understand," Said the elderly man, going on to explain that he had been a prisoner in Auschwitz during WWII. Every thing there - the landscape, people's clothes and the gruel they're fed - was grey. It was winter and very cold, so he used to look for any bits of paper to stuff inside his thin clothes to keep warmer. One night, finding a piece of paper, he lifted it to find an orange underneath. Hardly Believing it, he hid it in a hole in the wall. Taking it out each night, he would hold it, scrap the skin with his finger nail, releasing a fragrance that reminded him of freedom. One day when he and others had barely escaped death, he brought out the orange and showed it to a few friends. What they all noticed most of all, with a sense of astonishment, was that orange colour. He peeled the orange, gave each section to a friend, and ate his own share. Nothing before or since, he told Ben Izzy, had tasted as good. For him, one orange had become an astonishing message from a world of colour, of hope and freedom, one that enabled him to do what he could to repair a piece of the world, if only for a moment.