A Letter to the Families, Survivors, and Bystanders in Texas
How to cope with and manage your devastating grief and trauma. We grieve once more as a country with the…
Category: Thoughts of a Therapist
The Most Important Lesson for All Mothers
7 Steps to Infuse Self-Compassion in Your Parenting As mothers, we’re expected to be copiously informed and highly skilled. In…
The Healing Power of Radical Acceptance: Help yourself to accept what is.
The idea of accepting what is becomes so disconcerting, especially when there’s deep pain attached to an event or circumstance. Acceptance doesn’t…
Working Through Tradeoffs Is Key to Your Personal Growth and Success
6 tips for accepting tradeoffs and achieving your goals. We have critical decisions we must make daily. We explore whether…
TEDxBU: Circumventing Emotional Avoidance
Check out my TED talk! Avoiding uncomfortable emotions is a human phenomenon—it prevents us from acting from our values, reaching…
Are We Becoming Numb to School Shootings?
What we need to do now. Another school shooting, this one at Oxford High School in Michigan, where a 15-year-old killed…
Beware of Your Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
It may be negatively impacting your behaviors toward yourself and others. Key points: A self-fulfilling prophecy is a set of…
Mindfully Communicating to Children About 9/11
Help to foster valuable lessons amid devastating tragedy. This marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic events that occurred in…
Getting Up When Life Smacks You in the Head
Five strategies for building resilience. In many ways, Summer 2020 beat me down hard: COVID was rampant, my kids were…
