What do a 45-year-old professor, several well-educated parents, a retired psychotherapist, a concerned husband, and a college student all have in common? These are people suffering–or intimately connected to someone suffering–from clinical depression who didn’t know it. How, in this day and age, with so much information available, is it possible that depression can still go […]
How Words Can Heal–What Is Your Story?
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence – a series of words – that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.” […]
Are Your Feelings Getting the Best of You?
“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” -Daniel Goleman As a psychotherapist, I am constantly struck […]
Give the Gift of Laughter This Year
“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” -Mark Twain Every year, at this time of year, tensions mount. The arrival of the gift-giving holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah (“What should I get my mother-in-law?”) accompanied by impending vacations from school (“What will we do with the kids all cooped up in the bad weather?”) collide […]
Are You a Good Loser?
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” -Vince Lombardi In less than a week, on Election Day in America, there will winners and losers galore. Many people will […]
10 Tips to Help My Child Overcome Fears and Phobias
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt We know from the previous blog that a certain amount of […]
