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The Mind-Body connection: Why listening to your body matters for you and for your children

Recently, I was working with a client who was struggling with a tendency to override her intuition whenever she needed to make important decisions. She was ruminating about whether to go to a dinner party she was invited to because her ex-husband was going to be there. She really didn’t seem to want to go, [...]

Parenting a highly sensitive child

  If you are parenting a highly sensitive child (and so many children and adolescents seem to fall into this category these days), you might find this excerpt from my recent book chapter relevant and useful regarding how to think about and work with your child or adolescent's struggles. The chapter was published in  "Obsessive [...]

From Pathological Altruism to Obsessive Compulsive Personality : Psychological Wisdom from the Kabbalah

So what are we doing here on this earth?     Do you ever ask yourself this on yet another draggy Monday morning? I wonder about this a lot, especially as a therapist who sees people’s suffering quite a bit. What’s it all for anyway? Here’s something to chew on for this week if you’re [...]