As a therapist (and as a human), I am often eager to jump in and get started on making change. After some time, I realized that my enthusiasm doesn’t always match the person who seeking guidance. There could be many reasons for this, one among them is that everyone comes in at a different point of the ‘stages of change.’ The stages Read more…
I was in a high school classroom this morning and had a few minutes time to reflect and browse through young adult books on the shelf. As I walked around and talked to the students, it occurred to me that a common thread in my life and career revolves around education. In specific, working with students and in/around a classroom Read more…
I Was walking to my neighborhood train and looking around at the stony pebbles, construction, and crumbling sidewalk. I live in an industrial part of Brooklyn and it is nothing like where I stayed on my short visit last May. I sat idly at cafes, walked around beautiful neighborhoods and splurged a little because it felt like a vacation. I Read more…
I’ve been reflecting more on happiness and sadness lately and in wonderment at how the two rivers of emotions can run together side by side. Sometimes, the water from one streams into the other and they intersect into shallow pools of time. Other times, they weave in back and forth until the line between them blurs. We’d like to think Read more…
Article: Go Easy on Yourself, a New Wave of Research urges I ran across this article and was intrigued. Self-care is hugely important in any field, but especially seems to fall to the bottom in helping professions. This means the very people who strive to care for others sometimes neglect to turn that amazing compassion towards themselves. “The research suggests that Read more…
