I recently had the privilege of interviewing Dr Galen and Dr Aguirre on Hope to Recharge about DBT and practicing […]
Read morePOLISHING OUR INTERNAL MIRRORS
Life is always being mirrored back to us and when our mirrors are clean and shiny, we can perceive what’s […]
Read moreSurviving 9/11: Perseverance & Rebuilding After Catastrophe (Ari Schonbrun)
For the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I had the privilege of interviewing one of the few people who survived the attack from a higher floor in the tower. Ari Schonbrun worked on the 101st floor in the accounts receivables department of a stock market firm. Of their 960 employees in that office, only 302 survived. Most of those who lived were not in the office that day.
RE-ALIGNING MYSELF THIS ROSH HASHANAH
This Rosh Hashanah, I sat down with myself to re-evaluate my Higher purpose, intentions and goals. New years are always […]
Read moreHOW LISTENING TO UNDERSTAND CAN HELP UNITE US
At the beginning of this year, I made a very specific new year’s resolution to begin listening to understand, instead […]
Read moreDBT & Radical Acceptance Coping Skills (Dr. Chaya Lieba Kobernick)
We asked Dr. Kobernick to come back because I have been getting tons of questions about Radical Acceptance, which is a building block of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I’ve also noticed that our most popular episodes have been those about BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and DBT so, I knew we needed an expert to come in and talk about it some more.
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE WOMAN BEHIND THE ROLE OF ‘MOTHER’
I once asked a friend who she wanted to become before she was a mother. It was an innocent question. […]
Read moreHOW ONE SMALL MISHAP CAUSED ME TO PRACTICE MORE GRATITUDE
To You reading this right now.. I want to begin this blog post by thanking you for reading it. In […]
Read moreOwn Your Own Story (Dr. Jen Fit)
Jen shares how her close friends, family and even her own body had been trying to alert her to the unhealthiness of her romantic relationship, but she had not been willing to listen. Even when her intuition said something was not right, she could not find a logical reason to feel that way, so she stayed. She kept hoping it would turn out like she dreamed. It wasn’t until after the relationship ended that she realized most of the problems they were having stemmed from differing core values. It wasn’t that either one of them was a good or bad person at the fundamental level.
FINDING THE BEAUTY IN OUR ‘MESS’
It’s admittedly been hard to tune out the voices of the world recently and dive inwards. Inward has always been […]
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