Book Reviews
Shifting Perspective – Making the Invisible Visible
I had a five-hour flight to teach at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium last week, enough time to read one entire book, start to finish. And to relish not only the […]
Loving Like You Mean It
As gifted a writer as he is psychotherapist, Dr. Ron Frederick gives us a rare treat in Loving Like You Mean It: clear guidance in navigating the very real challenges […]
Prescription for the Disillusioned
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the […]
Gratitude Goulash
[apropos of the sustenance offered by gratitude in a time of loss and uncertainty, from Gratitude Goulash that figured prominently in the coping with the mis-adventures of two weeks ago […]
The Resilience Workbook
INTRO My Resilience Handbook: Powerful Practices to Bounce Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, even Disaster, will be published by New World Library in September 2018. The Resilience Workbook: Essential Skills to Recover […]
Mindfulness – Timely and Timeless
I picked up the TIME special edition on Mindfulness: The New Science of Health and Happiness at my local grocery store last week. 100 uninterrupted pages of practical tips on […]
Solving Climate Change – For Real
The problems – and the possibilities – inherent in climate change came into bulls-eye focus for me in one 24-hour period, the first day of September 2017. I live in […]
Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. – John Burroughs People know from their own experience, intuitively, that being in […]
Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
Telomeres are compared to the plastic tabs on the end of your shoelaces that keep your shoelaces from unraveling. Telomeres are protective sheaths of proteins at the ends of your […]
Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
When Sheryl Sandberg’s husband David Goldberg died suddenly of a heart attack at age 48, Sheryl was plunged immediately into devastating loss and grief, widowhood, single parenthood of two young […]