Thoughts of a Therapist
Teach People How to Treat You & Don’t Necessarily Treat Others How You Like to Be Treated
I received a number of e-mails regarding my prior blog. People were eager to know what happened when I called my friend to follow up on my feelings regarding our interaction. I wondered what the intrigue was about. Did people want to know whether proactively...
Socializing & Forging Connection
I spent last weekend away camping with a number of families from my community. I had the opportunity to rough it out with no cellular coverage, no PC and the serenity of the great outdoors. With all the beauty that nature had to offer, it also afforded me time to...
Acting From a Place of Personal Integrity
I was sitting with a client who just returned from college to spend the Summer at home. She described the first semester of her sophomore year being challenging socially and the second semester being increasingly more challenging. She described how her drinking took a...
Creating a Mini Me: Our Children Are a Reflection of Ourselves
I was on the phone with my son, and after being asked by him, shared the news that I received another rejection from an editorial board because they did not want to take a chance on a topic that has not been written about before. This morning was rough for me. I have...
The Story Behind “Thru My Eyes” Inception & How to Go from Idea to Effective Action
Dede & Her Daughter I just had 30 people over for Sabbath dinner to celebrate my son and his friends moving up from elementary school to middle school. It was so heartwarming to see the group of boys together, their interactions and the pure joy they experience by...
Fed up With Missing the Boat on Obesity
I just saw the movie “Fed Up” and feel even more frustrated than I imagined I would be. First, I cannot believe how often I hear the obesity epidemic being compared to the tobacco industry. There are such disparities between the two issues. Out of genuine hopefulness...
