Brain Changer? Exploring the Effects of So Much Screen Time on Our Kids
Our modern world is flooded with electronic communication devices. Of course, gadgets such as computers, smartphones, and tablets represent a revolution in the way we exchange ideas and consume media. In many ways, they make our lives more comfortable, and the...
Successful Conflict Management, the Key to a Great Marriage
How to manage conflict successfully is a skill that can make or break a marriage and is therefore extremely important. The good news is that we can learn successful conflict resolution. “It takes two to tango” so when one partner moves into conflict management, the...
How Mindfulness Can Elevate Self-Awareness & Increase Self-Acceptance
You spend a lot of time on what you consider to be “improving yourself.” Perhaps you’ve worked hard to complete a degree or training program. In your work, maybe there’s required professional development that you do to stay current in your field. In your personal...
Traumatic Growth: How Trauma can Transform and Inspire
Trauma is epidemic in our day and time as we are now globally connected through technology. A 24-hour cable news cycle inundates us with disasters of every type. People suffer accidents, human-made and natural. Neighbors and family members treat each other...
The Healing Properties of Color and Light
We know that light is essential to our emotional and physical wellbeing, as is color. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of green spaces in our environment to calm our nervous systems. One psychological methodology, Emotional Transformational Therapy...
The Dance of the Big Hunger
In his lovely book, "A Mantis Carroll," Laurens Van der Post, tells us about the intersection between the ancient and the modern. Surprisingly, the tale reveals that man's distant ancestors, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, shared a search for meaning expressed through...
Conflict: A Door to Greater Intimacy
The secret to a good partnership, any partnership, be it a marriage, an enduring lifelong friendship or a business partnership, is to capture the opportunity for greater understanding through the door of conflict. My thirty-year-old son told me the other day,...
Perfection is the Open Heart
Isn’t it amazing that you can meet a person, a perfect stranger, and very quickly feel a connection? When I saw my husband for the first time, 38 years ago, on the Orient Express, I was backpacking with my roommate from college. We were en route to Greece, and he was...
Mishap Fertility and the Cloak of Invisible Grief
Anyone who has gone through a miscarriage will tell you, if you care and take the time to listen, of the eviscerating gut wrenching experience of loss that takes over your body, heart and mind. Then there is the agony of actually getting your cycle when your whole...
Courage, the Cornerstone of Growth
“Let me not beg for the stilling of pain, but for the heart to conquer it” Rabindranath Tagore The word courage contains in its root the French word ‘coeur’ (i.e. heart). In its etymology, courage implies an ability to face negative circumstances with a heart full of...