When Reality Knocks

When Reality Knocks is the weblog of Rev. Henry Sharam and Steve Sharam, a father and son team working in multi-media personal psychology. This blog is meant to compliment their main site, Your Self Discovery, which is currently in the testing phase. Your Self Discovery will offer a totally unique animated multi-media personality type test, as well as personal and public journals, tons of psychological help material, e-cards, downloads and tons of fun stuff. When Reality Knocks offers their unique points of view on why this world is so messed up and how we can all try to get through it in one piece. The site will be an intensive, fun and engaging look at Jungian psychological type, while the blog will contain their daily thoughts on topics ranging from communication, conflict and intimacy to art, censorship and general craziness.

This blog is about relationships. They are not trying to offer easy or too-simple solutions to impossible problems, not do they claim to have all the answers. What they are going to do is debunk some of the myths that we all live with, things most of us believe aren’t true, that cause us all infinite amounts of trouble. They will try to cut through some of the clutter of our culture and bring some clarity to this crazy life we’re all trying to live.

Rev. Henry has masters degrees is Pastoral Care and Jungian Depth Psychology and a resume as long as your left leg. He grew up in rural Prince Edward Island, on the East coast of Canada, attended Acadia University, King’s College and New York Theological Seminary in New York City and has lived for 35 years in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a rural pastor, and a chaplain in a jail, mental hospitals, and nursing homes. He was director of Pastoral Care at the Abbie J. Lane and Camp Hill hospitals. He is a supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education and for the past 21 years, he has had a psychotherapy practice in Halifax.

Steve has an advanced major degree in History, English, Philosophy and a bunch of other stuff from King’s College and has just graduated with a fine Art degree in photography and media art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He is an avid wushu (kung fu) practitioner, a photographer and is most often described, with a shake of the head, as a `semi-lunatic’. He lived most of his life in Halifax and just moved, with his girlfriend Meghan, to Vancouver, mainly to get some good seats for the 2010 Olympics. He wants a big dog, she wants a little one. The struggle continues.