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Balancing Loss and Gratitude During the Holidays
The arrival of the Thanksgiving and winter holiday season each year asks us to harvest our blessings: to be grateful, to celebrate, and to spend time with friends and family as we shift ... Read More
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Breaking Up on Facebook
Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, as well as other means of electronic communications such as texting, are no longer the wave of the future: they are the here and now. Online ... Read More
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Going to China!
On October 20th, I’ll be landing in China (Beijing, to be precise), accompanied by a group of psychoanalysts and therapists who have been teaching and supervising Chinese student analysts ... Read More
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Experiences of Depression: Irritability and Anger
This article is part of a series that explores the ways specific “clusters” of depression symptoms manifest to create different experiences of depression. The previous article in this ... Read More
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Seven Steps for Talking Your Way to a Better Sex Life
Are you and your partner arguing about sexual issues in your relationship? Is there an ongoing issue that keeps coming up in the process, making your sex life rockier, or worse, non-existent? Disagreements ... Read More
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Resources for Special Needs Parents with Young Children
Last week, I had the honor of attending and speaking at Postpartum Support International’s 25th Annual Conference in Seattle, WA. I was moved and inspired by the amazing work gestating ... Read More
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Single and Satisfied: Learning to Live Life In or Out of a Relationship
We humans are social creatures. We thrive on connection, interaction, and unions with each other. As babies, we are immediately and intimately connected to our mothers, and then our fathers ... Read More
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Creating Shrines and Altars for Healing from Grief
Altars and Shrines: What Are They? Archeologists have found evidence of altars and shrines in nearly all places where there is evidence that humans have lived. The predisposition to construct ... Read More
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Exploring Alternative Lifestyles in Your Relationship
It’s a pretty well known fact that ‘happily ever after’ is a concept that is often easier said than done. People still cling to and admire the ideals of a long-term commitment and ... Read More
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Meditation and the Flexible Mind
The fifth Paramita, or practice for attaining happiness, is Dhyana, or Meditation. As with all the other Paramitas, we develop this one through practice. While it can be hard to keep a ... Read More
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Living with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I recently stumbled across a new blog called Infinite Daze where the author poignantly writes about her daily struggles with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). In a recent ... Read More
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Balancing Codependent Tendencies: Improving Relationships through Self-Care
Are you a person who takes care of everyone else before yourself? Do you believe you should put yourself last? If you routinely take care of others’ needs before your own, then you ... Read More