by MAI Team | Emotional Intelligence, Gratitude, Strengths, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, The Brain Diaries, The Mind, Values
If there is a human trait that rubs me raw it’s officiousness, and its close cousins, piousness and righteousness. A most unholy alliance. Due to my Scottish ancestry, I’m naturally a dark brunette, or at least I was for the first chunk of my life. Now I owe my...
by MAI Team | Disorders, Flourish, Flourishing, Gratitude, Happiness, Optimism, Physical Health, Positivity, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, Values
In Where is its mind? What the battle over the ‘bible’ says about psychiatry, Ian Brown, feature editor of the Globe and Mail, takes the view that the upcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM V) has inflated the definition of mental illness...
by MAI Team | Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
A couple of nights ago my husband, Glenn and I had an excellent meal with a bottle of wine at one of our favourite local restaurants. We were full of bonhomie as the evening drew to a close, and I excused myself to use the facilities before heading off on our walk...
by MAI Team | Physical Health, The Brain Diaries
I’ve acquired a constant companion, and not because it’s an attractive fashion accessory. Au contraire. The thing is a dratted nuisance and its lumpy protrusion from pocket or belt spoils the line of any outfit. No, my pedometer goes with me everywhere because I’ve...
by Helen Kain | Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Pessimism, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
My aunt Pat was something of a dish. Lively and humorous, with a caustic wit that rarely failed to entertain, she augmented the very restrictive rations available to Britons during WWII with “two shilling teas” to which she was escorted by a bevy of besotted...
by Helen Kain | Changing our Minds, Conflict, Learning, Stress, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
My husband Glenn is a car guy, and one of the apples of his eye is his 2003 Morgan, which lives at our place in Cape Cod. Our daughter Kirsten and her fiancé Michael, shown in said car, are tying the knot next month here in Canada and we thought it would be fun to...
