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Cartoon Therapy
Amy: When my friend Jerry Clements showed me this cartoon today, I absolutely fell apart laughing. I felt like my psyche was on display. “How did they know?” I asked him. “That’s me!” I imagine some...
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A Gentle Look at “Self-Sabotage”
Here’s a funny and thoughtful post from The School of Life. The film clips are fantastic. The author, Alain de Botton takes a gentle look at that common phenomenon of “Self-Sabotage. It reminds me of...
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Can You Love Your Very Self?
Dave: I do family consultation interviews in Adult Inpatient units and at Residential Treatment Centers for adolescents with people whose lives are very disrupted. Oftentimes the hospitalized patient...
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Lox of Love
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a taste of Funny Food, from our friend Bill Wurtzel. “LOX OF LOVE”
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A Poem For The Senses
Please enjoy this poem by one of my favorite poets, Billy Collins: Purity My favourite time to write is in the late afternoon, weekdays, particularly Wednesdays. This is how I got about it: I take a...
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From The School of Life: An Instruction Manual To Oneself
We hope you enjoy this rather charming post from The School of Life. The author, Alain de Botton, illustrates how our unconscious wounds from childhood can show up later in our relationships,...
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What Parents Worry About
Amy: To be a parent is to know worry. There’s no escaping it, and there’s really no cure for it. As my blogging buddy David Keith says, “If you can’t stand guilt don’t become a parent.” There are a lot...
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Shadow Tag
Dave: A good friend and talented colleague in Syracuse, Christine Matteson, a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Mental Health Counselor, sent me a copy of her recent newsletter: Creative Arts...
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Therapeutic Ruthlessness: Beyond Sweetness And Patience
Therapists tend to be good at being kind and patient with difficult people and they know how to put up with their patients’ demanding and outrageous behavior. Too often the demand for good manners...
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How To Be Selfish
Listen to Alain de Botton reflect on the benefits of being “kind egoists”. He notes how maintaining a healthy selfishness is probably the best, most authentic way to be there […]
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What “Ruthlessness”Feels Like From The Inside
The idea of being "ruthless" sounds jarring at first, until we realize how it's an essential ingredient in healthy living, both personally and professionally. It speaks to how we maintain our integrity...
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Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day To All Our Readers Here’s something I received from my good friend Elaine
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In Praise of Play
Dave: A colleague sent this quotation with image. I liked it but I think it was because she was referring to the many conversations we have had over the last […]
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A Writer’s Tale of Unexpectedly Finding Love: Then It Gets Complicated
Writer Delia Ephron, who co-wrote the screenplay for several iconic American films, including Sleepless in Seattle, tells her heart-warming story of unexpectedly finding love. Then she gets sick.
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A Saudi Woman’s Act of Courage Ends in Pain
Check out the moving tale of courage and pain on the part of this impressive Saudi woman.
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From “The School of Life”: How To Be Confident
Amy: Check out this small, funny reflection on “confidence” from Alain de Botton’s The School of Life. The video points to the liberating effects of allowing for, and accepting, our innate craziness […]
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Out of the Darkness: Therapy For A Depressed Young Woman
In this post, Dave shares his clinical story about a young woman with severe depression and her recovery, without the use of medications. It again reminds us about the power of relationship, and the...
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A New Understanding of Emotional Distress
Our current cultural model for conditions like anxiety and depression uses language like "chemical imbalance", implying that suffering is related to our brain chemistry. In this post, Dave Keith offers...
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Meditation on Personhood: Looking For My Self
Dave continues his meditation on the tensions and play between our multiple "selves"; the social, fantasy and core parts of our being--and what this means for our relationship with others.
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Meditation on Personhood: How Do We Know Who We Are?
Dave Keith reflects on the relationship between the "I"-- our Self--and the system of social selves, a community of selves. The social selves are roles that we play. We all have multiple personalities....
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