Think Queerly

For many people, meeting your beloved's family for the first time can be nerve-racking. This is a rite of passage that most people experience for the first time in their teens or early 20s. This is a…

As a gay man, when I tune into beauty I connect with the source that creates life. From that source comes my inspiration, that quality which allows me to create and bring value into the world.

Followi…

Viewing the 1964 cartoon, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer through a queer lens.

As a little boy I loved the classic Christmas cartoon, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. I must’ve watched it every Christm…

Our earliest influences that form who we become as adults start with our parents. While I am certainly not saying that my parents made me gay; how I was raised absolutely influenced my identity as a …

Gay men can lead other people in a new model of forgiveness through their own self exploration of gay shame. We can evolve as men who understand and embrace the dichotomy of the masculine and feminin…

How do you break out of the box you’ve built up around your life that limits your potential?

You start with your thoughts.

It’s not about being mind-full, it’s about improving your mind-set. If your mi…

Populism is on the rise in North America and elsewhere, but for the first time it seems like we’re beginning to see it’s negative effects in Canada, and specifically in Ontario where the Ontario PC P…

“I’m stressed out!”

On a Saturday morning two years ago I was sitting in the bath reading, “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. Oh, right… that's relaxing!

I needed to relax, which is why I was taking…

Why purge?

Purging will help you to let go of what’s holding you back in life, so that you can focus on what’s most important to you, and spend more of your time and energy working on what you want to…

Faith is passive – Trust is action oriented.

Faith is an expectation that what you can't prove is true, what will come to pass, or what you believe to be true without reason or logic. When you trust i…

In the Western world we are constantly striving.

We are building things.

We are creating things.

We are solving the problems that we have created for ourselves.

We are trying to outperform others.

We are …

What is overwhelm?

It’s a state of being in which you feel total overpowered by one or more emotions, situations, or everything all at once.

In truth it’s an emotional state in which you are overly ide…

In this episode I speak about the challenge for gay men to forgive homophobia in their lives, be it from individuals, family, and society at large.

The topic for the episode was inspired by a discussi…

If you want to accomplish something that’s important to you, do you believe that setting a goal with a deadline, or making a New Year’s resolution will do the trick?

Do you create lists of goals with …

Do you think the following statement is true:

People who are afraid of the future cling to the present.

When I first read that sentence it hit me hard, because of my recent awareness that I have ‘appar…

Have you hard the expression, “You need to fall in love with the process, not the goal”.

That’s only partially correct.

While it’s highly motivating to fall in love with the process, you never want to …

Pretend that you recently accomplished a really big goal.

I’m talking the big-kahuna, significant life goal: a major promotion at work; a $30,000 sales target reached; you’ve moved into your dream hom…

Have you ever said (or heard others say) something like,

“Is that for me? Oh, you shouldn’t have!” Or, “I don’t deserve this.”

Too often I hear this from those of us who serve others in capacities like…

If you're excited by every new idea, jumping from one project to the next, you'll never get what you want.

Instead, the outcome will be many small projects, some completed, and others abandoned; or ju…

One of the core steps to Live OUT the best of who you are is to keep a journal.

We journal for self-awareness to work through our problems and struggles, to get clear on how to solve those problems, a…