When you come into a relationship in which your new partner had a family before you, particularly when there are kids involved, it is profoundly important to recognize how jarring it is to bring a new person into this system. Even though it was a dysfunctional system,...
When your relationship ends, where there once was a known, there is now an unknown. The void that loss creates can drive you to fill that space with reasons why it had to end – you’re trying to make the unknown, known. Having your relationship ripped away with nothing...
Trauma comes in all shapes and sizes. It can be a huge event or a more subtle pain that you try hard to overlook, though it still haunts you. Collective traumas are suffered by many. They include war, terrorism, an accident, or a catastrophic weather episode that...
The President of the United States has a psychiatric disorder that requires his immediate removal from office. Thus far, many psychiatric practitioners have noted President Trump’s erratic, impulsive, paranoid, self-consumed thought patterns, communications, and...
Hillary knows…How did you first learn the story of Rosa Parks, whose birthday was yesterday? Too often, we hear about her refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus as a single, inevitable act. It was not. Parks spent years studying the principles of non-violent resistance, informing her political beliefs, and helping to grow a community of activists. Her bus protest was not just an act of courage, but of clear-eyed conviction. It also led to Parks's tireless organizing to keep the Montgomery bus boycott going, and a lifetime of taking action around causes she cared about, often with no recognition and at enormous personal risk. She understood better than anyone that progress takes decades of hard work, persistence, and the courage to keep going. #gutsywomenPhoto: Montgomery Sheriff's Office ... See MoreSee Less
This win means so much more than moneyThis is a win for christine Blasey FordThis is a win for Anita HillThis is a win for every woman assaulted no matter how long ago, who due to the time in HIStory, had to try to make sense of it some other way. Total confusion for survivor. “Is this my fault?”“The repercussions would be too great.”“Authorities would not care.”“What just happened to me?”“I need to downplay this or block it out so I can live my life.”“No one would believe me and the public would hate me if I dare”“I was not just assaulted. That’s not what happened. I can’t take on that heat, so maybe I try to convince myself I enjoyed it? But didn’t. It hurt.”“i was in disbelief.”“I felt shame; humiliation.”“I’ll tell some trusted friends to help me process what happened to me.”Like the millions of women in America who endure this treatment daily,I will try to block it out.” ... See MoreSee Less
E. Jean Carroll's first defamation case against Trump was brutal for the Republican. The newly resolved second case, however, was vastly worse for him.
I haven’t been around for awhile. With all that’s happening in the world I’ve been focused on helping people one-on-one. I hope to make it back here on a more consistent basis, spurred on by having made a list of the best psychologists “in the world.” ... See MoreSee Less