Between April 11 and June 1 of 2022, the world seemed to watch with rapt attention as the Depp v. Heard defamation trial took place. People on social media seemed to be captivated. What was it about this trial that affected those watching so deeply, almost...
The first time I heard the term "love addiction" was many years ago when I had the rare opportunity to meet privately with Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. Rabbi Twerski, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and pioneer in the treatment...
We tell ourselves to slow down, to calm down, to take a break, and to breathe, but it is just so much harder to do than it sounds. When we do take a moment, if we allow ourselves to do that, we may notice that what we are actually trying to achieve is to alleviate the...
In these days of information overload, a time when we are constantly flooded with information, opinions, and advice, it can become confusing to know what we truly believe, value, and intuit. The internet is filled with voices that are strong and confident in what they...
In my practice, a lot of the work that I do focuses on relationships. This may sound like a small focus, but in fact, it's extremely broad. Relationships exist everywhere we look. We have relationships with ourselves and with others; we have relationships with food,...
When we speak of trauma, it's typically extremely subjective. After all, by definition trauma is the individual person's emotional response to a terrible event. However, there are some events in life that, on any spectrum, are without question objectively traumatic....
In the last year and a half or so, Covid-19 lockdowns and time spent in quarantine here in Israel, like much of the rest of the world, had many parents home with their children for more time than they ever anticipated. While there was definitely time spent on Zoom...
I was 26 years old and 26 weeks pregnant with my second child when I was driving to work from Brooklyn to Williamsburg and found myself third in a line of a four-car collision. I was immediately rushed to the ER where a series of standard tests were performed on both...