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As I enter into my 41st year, I felt a sudden desire to return here to my blog and write. It has been awhile. I have shared poems and...
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The Years Are Short
As 2016 winds down, I am amazed at how quickly another year has flown by. The quote that comes to my mind is this one: “The days are...
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Staying Open
I remember being a very sensitive child growing up. I was always attuned to the emotional state of others, aware of energetic shifts and...
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In Front Of Our Very Eyes
This is a brief life. Our time here doesn’t last forever, although lately, I find myself acting as if it will. Sometimes, we get caught...
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Beginning Again
As I look through my blog, I realize that I have written a lot recently about self care. Why it is important, how and why we should do...
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Green Juice and Doughnuts
This past Friday, I had a lovely morning. It had been a hectic week prior, between work, adjusting to the start of school, and other...
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All That Matters
I was driving my kids to school this morning, when I started to feel that familiar feeling creep in around 7:50 am. That inner...
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Expanding Time
My patient sat quietly, his hands resting in his lap, gazing out the window. Therapy. We had already covered the major areas of life,...
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A Moment of Gratitude
I have been working hard at gratitude lately. I know that sounds kind of strange to say. I always imagined that being thankful would...
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How To Start
An astute reader read my post last week, and wrote to me, “Thank you for sharing the ‘why” of your mindfulness practice…but do you mind...
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Coming Full Circle
About a month ago, I facilitated a mindfulness session for a group of about fifteen people. It was a group of engaged, young...
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Summer Vacation
I think this is one of the more difficult posts I have written over the last couple of years. So I will just put it out there now, to...
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The Path to Worthiness
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how we are all worthy, independent of what we do, earn, look like, or accomplish. I have been...
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What Mindfulness Isn’t
It is hard to define exactly what mindfulness is…the more I start to delve more deeply into an understanding of what role mindfulness...
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The Three Words Every Child Should Hear
I have been hearing whispers of the same emotion all around me these days. A dear, dear friend, going through a terrible break up,...
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Starting Over
As a psychiatrist, I spend a great deal of time with my patients examining the past. We reflect on our histories in order to better...
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Embracing Inefficiency
In leading a life with multiple moving parts, I often prize myself on how I can fit those pieces together in the most sensible manner...
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The First Time
I was blessed this past week to host two teenagers, Vijay and Bhavani, who were visiting the United States from Bangalore India. Vijay...
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Loving Ourselves First
How do we earn our own love? This has been on my mind lately, as it seems to be a recurring theme within my patients. And yet if we look...
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Falling Asleep
Tonight, I laid down with my son to put him to sleep. We don’t often do this, but tonight was somehow different. I laid down next to...