Recently, I visited the meditation center Unplug, located just below my office in Santa Monica. Excuse the pun, but I have to give a major plug to this fantastic center. Unplug offers a variety of meditation classes, including sound baths, aromatherapy meditation, breathwork, guided visualization, meditation for manifestation, meditation for type A’s, mindful-stress mastery, etc. I […]
Many years ago when I worked at an addictions treatment center, I saw a client who was trapped both in an addiction as well as a dysfunctional relationship. We happened to be sitting outside during our session and as my client talked incessantly about her difficult situation we both watched a tiger swallowtail butterfly become […]
“TO LOVE IS TO RECOGNIZE YOURSELF IN ANOTHER.” Eckhart Tolle This week, we heard a news station make the mindless remark that we shouldn’t care about children and families in distress at the Mexican border because after all, they are not American families. Behind this remark lies a whole belief system – if our family […]
Too often I see couples sitting on opposite ends of my couch, clutching onto the decorative pillows as if they were floatation devices, staring angrily in opposite directions. Yet, when they talk to me about what they most deeply desire, it is EXACTLY THE SAME THING as their partner describes – to be seen, heard, […]
A few months ago I had a mother bring her teenage daughter into my practice without letting her know about the appointment. The teenager stared at me with disgust as her mother went on and on about her lengthy list of concerns for her daughter. “She won’t talk to me. I love her so much […]
About a year ago, I had a nervous mother email me. Her emails sounded like many of the others I have received over the years. This was what she wrote. “My son needs help. He has zero self esteem, feels sad most of the time, very low grades… Can you help him, us?” The next […]
We all woke up on on Monday morning to another reminder of the fragility of life in these turbulent times. The floating anxiety that loomed in all of us as we beheld the violent and disturbing images of the Las Vegas killings on our screens was “this could have been me, my son, my daughter, my mother, […]
After seeing hundreds of women in my practice struggle and suffer alone, there is one thing I know for sure: Women need other women to help them through life’s “topsy-turvy” unpredictable journey. If they don’t have the support of their fellow “sisters” they suffer alone in their dark corners of the world. That is very […]