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...
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...
Empowering Our Children, Empowering Ourselves
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...
Fostering Self-Compassion
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...