What Changes Will Fall Bring for You?
“He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.” William...
How Empathy Helps
It might be easy to ‘poo poo’ empathy, as in ‘Empathy plus ninety-nine cents, what’ll that get me? A donut?’ But honestly, out of all my...
The Value of Enemies
There’s a new novel out titled, “The Kindness of Enemies” and I wish I’d thought of that title first! At thirty I didn’t have any...
The Paris Attacks, the Holidays and Feeling Disenfranchised
The recent Paris attacks have made me think about what it means to feel disenfranchised. And why does that feeling lead some people to do...
Five Therapeutic Life Hacks
The upside to being on a fairly continuous ‘self-improvement’ plan is that I keep finding new ways and things to improve! The downside is...
The Secret Life of a Therapist
Am I Truly Boring? All the things I could write about, I want to write about boredom. Once when I was 18 my father said, “If you don’t...
A New School Year, New Beginnings
Time to Reflect Today I am on vacation and happily spending the day napping, reading a beach novel, making homemade guacamole, tending to...
Psychotherapy: Its Stigma And Its Value
I’m tired of defending psychotherapy. It’s kind of like the amount of times I heard the “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” Natasha and Boris jokes...
If I Were Asked To Give This Year’s Graduation Speech
As I get ready to send my second son off to college I am thinking about graduation, because in a way I feel like I’m graduating too....
Aging Hopefully
At 50, I tend to click on articles about growing older gracefully, or not so gracefully. Some of them are worthy of the word ‘viral’ and...
