Claiming Social Work Fees As A Tax Deduction
As of September 26, 2012, counselling services provided by Registered Social Workers (RSWs) can be claimed as a medical expense tax deduction when you file your income tax return. In other words, Registered Social Workers are now authorized “medical practitioners” for the purpose of claiming medical expenses. To access the CRA Chart list of professions…Read more
Mindful Parents: Resilient Children: Parenting in a Rapidly Changing World
Families today live in a society that is rapidly changing, increasingly demanding, faster moving, overly stimulating, increasingly unpredictable, and financially insecure. In the midst of this, stress-related symptoms and conditions in adults and children alike have become common, and cross all socioeconomic lines. There is an increasing need for both children and parents to develop…Read more
Jokes: Medical Bloopers
MEDICAL BLOOPERS ON MEDICAL CHARTS! We’ve all seen sports bloopers and TV bloopers — well, how about Medical bloopers? Doctors Lounge is a large online network of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. They started a Medical Bloopers page on their website and have collected all of the unintentionally funny things that doctors have written in medical…Read more
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses
Renowned mindfulness meditation teacher and best-selling author Jon Kabat-Zinn speaks at UCSD Medical Center on the topic of “Coming to Our Senses”, which is also the name of his new book, subtitled “Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”. A pioneer in the application of ancient Buddhist practices to healing in modern medical settings, Kabat-Zinn…Read more
Responsibility
Responsibility begins with the willingness to be the cause in the matter of one’s own life. Ultimately, it is a context from which one chooses to live. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simple what’s…Read more
