Form the meaningful and satisfying relationships you want and deserve. There is certainly no instruction booklet on how to foster meaningful relationships. The way we first learn is through modeling our parent’s behavior, by process of elimination, and through on the...
12 Mindfulness Life Lessons for Kids Around Mask Wearing
Parents, you can teach your kids to grow in the process. The New York Times reported that there are at least 538 new coronavirus deaths, and 74,443 new cases were reported in the United States on Oct. 26. Over the past week, there has been an average of 71,120 cases...
Mindful Parenting With Halloween Candy
Teaching kids to be healthy and generous. This year the Halloween festivities will most likely be celebrated differently because of the pandemic. You may choose to amend your plans by participating in a masked socially distanced scavenger hunt in your yard or around...
Parents, Your Kids are Learning Important Mindfulness and Life Lessons by Wearing A Mask!
There are many reasons why people are refusing to wear masks. Some reasons cited are because people are rebellious by nature, some feel it forfeits their personal freedom, it’s a walking symbol of vulnerability, the messages by government officials regarding...
The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Providing Us with a Mother’s Day to Remember
This is a Mother’s Day we will forever remember. It has been since late March that a majority of us have been sheltering in. Most of us cannot ever remember experiencing such a range of emotions in such a short period of time. The extent of uncertainty and ambiguity...
Thrusting Toward a Growth Mindset During & After the Coronavirus Pandemic
We are all fighting a difficult battle and are unified by our collective suffering. These unrelenting circumstances directly force us to face our fragility, vulnerability, and mortality. The lack of uncertainty and loss of control puts many of us in a perpetual state...
Being a Psychotherapist in the Midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Although I’m not directly on the front lines and working with symptomatic hospitalized Covid-19 patients, I’m treating those who are infected, are symptomatic or asymptomatic and quarantined at home, their family, friends, and others who are indirectly impacted....
A Letter to Our Children in the Throws of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Life as we know it has changed so incredibly much over the past couple of weeks. You lost your freedom to come and go as you please. You lost your fundamental right to go to school and directly interact with your friends. Some of you who are having occasions and...
The Coronavirus: What Are Our Children’s Takeaways?
I have been seeing many adolescents, teens, and young adults in my practice over the duration of this public health crisis and have seen them react in similar ways that I see my adult patients react — minimizing it as nothing at all to worry about by comparing it to...
8 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Relationships
Are you approaching your relationships with openness and enthusiasm, with reluctance and anxiety, or in some other way? The way in which you approach your relationships impacts on the behavior you exhibit while attending to the relationships and the perceptions you...