An International Experience Just Next Door
Many students want to use their university studies as a time to gain international experience by studying abroad. These students want to learn to be more independent and to adapt to a new culture. Studying abroad is a wonderful learning opportunity, however, not all students are ready to move so far away from their family and friends or find it expensive to live in a foreign country. Canada can be a great solution for those who are looking for an international experience.

Best Reasons to Study in Canada
An Education System that Ranks Amongst the World’s Best
Canadians place great importance on learning and have developed a first rate education system with high standards. A Canadian degree, diploma or certificate is well-regarded in business, government and academic circles around the globe.
Outstanding Post-Secondary Education Opportunities
Canadian post-secondary institutions offer a vast array of high quality programs, to help you acquire the skills and knowledge you need for your career. Universities and colleges offer academic degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels, and in a …

We endlessly discuss and gossip about questions of: What am I? Who am I? What is my self?
Layers of Fear hide answers to these questions. They must be lifted off to live in the essence of an effective life.
First Layer: As this first thin layer is lifted there is a growing awareness that ideas about your self are made-up. They only exist as ideas in the minds that hold them.
It doesn’t follow that ideas are useless, or at all meant to be ineffective. It means that at their core, effective …

Preparing to Come to Canada
For international students, Canada offers an education system of outstanding quality and academic degrees that are internationally recognized. With some careful planning and research on issues like academic programs, eligibility and funding, earning a Canadian degree can become a reality.
Canada welcomes more than 130,000 international students every year. Foreign-student enrollment was up more than 15 percent across the country in 2003, with many provinces showing jumps of 20 percent or greater. Achieving diversity within the student population turns Canadian lecture halls into places for sharing a …

I’ve discovered a powerful remedy for self-destructive habits that is so simple I wondered how I missed it over the years. My self-destructive habit involved eating junk food late at night, yet my discovery will work for any chronic, self-defeating behavior.
Do you do things every day that you wish you didn’t?
Most people wish they had control over certain behaviors, from addictions like smoking, drinking, gambling and junk food to emotional behaviors such as anger outbursts and yelling. Other seemingly stress related habits plague millions, such as biting fingernails, fidgeting or …

Each of us begins in total dependence: the womb. From the moment of ‘delivery’ into the awesome beauty and terror of the world we struggle to come to grips with separateness and the emotions that go with it.
In this piece I raise questions and discuss what is not a frivolous question. I do this to help you assess where you are in your own emotional life journey.
Those of you who have read my book The Three Word Truth about Love and Being Well might recognize that I have addressed parts …