Dear Readers This blog post started few month ago in November when I usually write my “how to survive the holidays” post. In these last few months, I have sat with many couples in therapy and talked about the coming holiday stress and about how to manage, cope, survive, and thrive in the holiday season. […]
How to cope with Holiday Season 2021
Can we celebrate the holidays with out the stress? A client this week was telling me how she is stressed about the upcoming holidays and how she misses last year’s holiday season. She described how in the midst of the pandemic, her family stayed home and it was intimate and private. There was nowhere to […]
Epidemic of Loneliness, Depression and Suicide
Are we Facing an epidemic of Loneliness, Depression, and Suicide? Even though our awareness to the loneliness and suicide epidemic becomes more acute when celebrities like Kate Spade, and Anthony Bourdain, take their own lives, it has become an epidemic, that has inflicted our culture in such proportions, that some experts are calling it a […]
When living hurts – you do not need to do it alone
“We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.” ~ Alanis Morissette There are times in our lives when ‘Living Just Hurts’… We know those days when it is hard to think of getting out of bed in the morning, getting […]
Loneliness: The Silent Epidemic
In an era where so much connection is possible and the world is at our fingertips, where we have virtual reality connections via Skype or face-time or emails or tweets or texts, where all day long we hear pings and notifications and alerts that someone is ‘connecting with us’, research says that we are more lonely than ever. Read more…