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...
Now more than ever, it's challenging to be in the present moment and feel grateful for all that we have. Practicing gratitude helps us to widen our perspective and look at things more broadly, increases our positivity and well-being, and improves on our confidence and...
Today marks the 19th anniversary of the tragic events that occurred in New York on September 11, 2001. Kids all over the country will learn about, hear about and observe tributes and commemorations marking this anniversary. Most of our children will have faint...
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...
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...
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...
We learn to avoid discomfort of all kinds from a very young age and the evading gets perpetuated as we grow into adulthood. As far back as we could remember, when we got hurt, our parents would just kiss our boo boo’s to immediately make everything okay. When we got...
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...
This year has had its challenges. I experienced the shocking and traumatic loss of my almost 16-year-old nephew. I also shared in the travesties experienced by my patients. The unexpected and premature loss of my long-term patient’s young adult daughter, a patient...
A name and brief bio is offered on several media outlets of the victims from the El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio mass shootings. I teeter on wanting to know more about each of them, and not wanting to know. I’m fearful that if I “know” them, my pain will intensify,...
