You Are a Spiritual Being, Having a Human Experience

You Are a Spiritual Being, Having a Human Experience

We are everything and we are nothing. In an infinite universe, anything and everything is possible. There is vastly more unknown than known and all of human history is but a sliver of Time.

Soft Addictions: Crutches Can be Useful, Sometimes

Soft Addictions: Crutches Can be Useful, Sometimes

Soft addictions are practices and behaviors we latch onto when we are trying to avoid unpleasant realities, painful truths, or mundane tasks. There is absolutely no shame in using a crutch when we need support, but there is harm continuing to ignore the problem at its root.

Musings on MSW Motivation: 11/26/99

Musings on MSW Motivation: 11/26/99

Transforming experience. Perspective shifts. This is why I want to be an MSW. I want to reach out to children who are trapped in the lonely valleys of their own minds. Children who play alone among rot and decay and cannot see the blue sky for pain. Pain is a great buffer between fantasy and the real. Pain keeps you locked in fantasy as a child. When glimpses of real invade, they are antagonistic, puncturing holes in the flashy wall of fantasy. This living median. Social workers can help gently ease the real, into the soft folds of fantasy, dilate experience until it is easy, to slowly ooze into the pores of rock, the border has inherent.

How to Prevent (or at least better manage) Holiday Stress

How to Prevent (or at least better manage) Holiday Stress

The holidays are supposed to be happy happy, joy joy. But, realistically, they’re more something like stress, fun, fun, stress. Read on for some helpful hints for making your holiday season more It's A Wonderful Life and less National Lampoon Christmas Vacation.

8 Ways to Stay Calm in Stressful Situations

8 Ways to Stay Calm in Stressful Situations

Life and work stress is inevitable, but we work to manage how much if affects us. Here are 8 helpful tips for staying cool under pressure.

Navigating Beauty Culture (NBC) comes to The Shames JCC on the Hudson

Navigating Beauty Culture (NBC) comes to The Shames JCC on the Hudson

If you are reading this, I suspect you are a strong woman, dedicated to healing. I believe you, as I am, are driven to love your body, but perhaps have come to recognize that the body hatred was branded onto our psyches. However, the same culture that created this trap, has armed us with the tools we need to free ourselves, it’s just a matter of looking in the right places. Navigating Beauty Culture (NBC) as a hybrid of Feminist Theory study group and body positivity support group.

Alternative Mental Health Techniques Become Mainstream

Alternative Mental Health Techniques Become Mainstream

Mainstream mental health is catching up to the notions of holistic psychotherapy.

Best Inspirational Books for Women

Best Inspirational Books for Women

Featured in Pretty Progressive’s 29 Brilliant Books With Women’s Stories That Inspire

Beyond Narcissus: Mirror Meditation

Mirror mediation cuts the ties of projection, by not allowing ourselves to drink the kool-aid, instead rejecting the false belief that we are limited by our appearance. Learn the basics here.