We don’t have “willpower” & “motivation” muscles or bones in our bodies that are earmarked and dictate our level of willingness. We decide whether to take effective action based on the value we place on our health. It is our sabotaging thoughts that get us stuck...
Through my nonprofit foundation “Thru My Eyes” where we create at no cost living legacies for individuals who are chronically medically ill, I had the opportunity to videotape a 42 year old man who lives in CA and was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He was...
I took the opportunity tonight to go to a memorial service in honor of the three teenage boys who were found murdered yesterday in Israel. I felt compelled to have a place to mourn, to be surrounded by community and felt I needed to do something proactively and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I had an incident with my eldest son several weeks ago that led me to think about how I label and assign roles to my children based on their temperament, characteristics and what feelings they provoke in me based on my own personal challenges. I got a call from the...
I’m sitting at a two day conference on the topic of shame and self-loathing and the speaker spent time speaking about the role of attachment in regard to shame. Imagine spending a whole two days learning about shame! Does the word exhausting come to mind? Yes! How...
