by Karina Stell | Nov 15, 2017 | Karina's Blogs
As you all know, I’ve only recently returned to work after a year on sick leave. I’ve decided to write this piece, as painful as it is for me, because I know there are others, like me, who have faced the unimaginable, and wondered how to begin living their lives...
by Karina Stell | Feb 1, 2016 | Karina's Blogs
Non-judgmental & authentic – Friends or Enemies? Part of the work we do is sitting without judgment with our clients. It is one of the fundamentals of our work. That clients can be authentic and not fear they will be judged is what allows them to open up and share...
by Karina Stell | Oct 30, 2015 | Karina's Blogs, Uncategorized
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for me! I’ve been wrestling with something that riles me. It’s an issue that always riles me and its substance is really not the issue. What is though is what happens for me when it comes up. I’ve had many years of learning about...
by Karina Stell | Sep 1, 2015 | Karina's Blogs, Uncategorized
I often sit and think about what it is I do. Stare into space thinking about the clients I have, the amazing things they say and know, the way my heart feels when I sit with them, ‘shooting the breeze’. How irreverent! There comes up the judgment on what I just wrote....
by Karina Stell | May 19, 2015 | Karina's Blogs
I grew up with my full complement of ‘shoulds’ as most of us did. Mine had their own theme, etiology and of course purpose for those who taught them to me. As a child they became my indisputable rule book and those whose ‘shoulds’ differed...
by Karina Stell | Mar 3, 2015 | Karina's Blogs, Uncategorized
Where do we go when we are confronted with a different way of being? When we hear a viewpoint that clashes with our own moral compass or our own understanding of what is okay? Do we jump to judgments of ‘rightness’ and ‘wrongness’, feel the need to label others, when...
