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24- stouffville suntribune thursday july 7 2005 by chris traber staff writer n an era when people seek emotional healing via mass media dispensation of tvs dr phil and bestseller lists perenniauy include self books it doesnt take a genius to figure society is reaching out few however are actually grasping meaningful solutions so confirms the recent global business and economic roundtable on addiction and mental health where researchers say depression is almost pandemic and canada ranks high in adoles- cent suicide the forum revealed studies indicating large numbers of north american children so- called silent sufferers are never proper ly diagnosed or treated for mental behavioural or developmental disorders we eventually journey from childhood but lifes unfinished and often grievous business gets packed in the baggage repressed feelings harboured pain and denied emotional injuries keep many peoples psyches as dark and closed as banks on sunday we are to our detriment emo tional pack rats unable or unwill- sri i t ing to challenge experience and release our traumas says newmarket psychotherapist janice berger we also have the means to let go of whats holding us emotionally hostage and win back our serenity she adds she knows only too well she has been there born in saskatoon and relocat ed to toronto at two ms berger trained as a nurse at wellesley staff photomike barrett hospital andvancouver general as a young woman while out west she upgraded her skills with a twoyear diploma from the university of british columbia missing her family she returned to wellesley teaching medical and surgical nursing her academic wanderlust led her to mcgill university in montreal and a degree in psychi atric nursing there she met her husband marriage and children replaced the career at 29 36 hours before giving birth to her second child a plane crash claimed the life of her broth errori ten years later i began to say goodbye she recounts ron was my only sibling but i didnt have time to grieve i missed the visitation and the funeral the i- sharing of experience through talk and touch that would have helped me begin to heal- her time was filled with caring for a new baby and another 17- monthold child helping her par ents cope and supporting her hus band who assumed her brothers business there was no time for me she said her brothers death was stored in an emotional attic along with other muffled anguish as a young girl her beloved grandfather died a cousin was killed in combat another taken prisoner of war a family friend was killed in a practice maneuvre at 17 a dear friend died in a motorcy cle accident although it was acknowledged that i might have troublesome feel- zings about these eventsmy family- did not give me the room and sup- port to feel and express my feel ings i did know i needed to feel so much more so i shut down my feelings and just carried on the opening of her emotional life came through her desire to be a good parent she says my early traumas had begun to reveal themselves in telling moments with my children ms berger recalls we are to our detriment emotional pack rats unable or unwilling to challengeexperience and release our traumas i would be irritable but would not understand why her own process of selfhelp began in earnest she learned about labelling feel ings to express them through thomas gordons parent effectiveness training reading arthur janov allowed her to acknowledge her overreac- see consumerism page 25 m annual fvnz 5i 99 xsif and discover joinaiiiile us at ffhurch i k ie 5 sunday slul zgpfr- n ks etoorm 10s30 rm 100 am i030 pm 800 rm majormackanzia vsi y ihiflhwjiy t 17v2pospt soo am wiik th church 6soo main st a stoultvlllerait-i- i ij ri- ta aoa mirtthtm rcf 48 3 ft 3 i 74j main st a bttl ulno loth lino life is your opportunity to prepare for eternity you are invited to come and hear gods way of salvation on highway 47 just east of goodwood west of goodwood gardens come and hear changeless truth 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