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Making Successful New Year’s Resolutions

By Beta on January 8, 2015 in General, Philosophy, Positive Pyschology

It is that time of year again when one year ends and another begins. The change to a new calendar year brings with it a sense of new possibility and a “clean slate”, which leads many of us to make New Year’s resolutions. Making these resolutions is steeped in tradition, practiced by the Romans and […]

Life Lessons from Dad…written by Jules Giggie

By Aaron Gilbert on October 27, 2014 in Anxiety, Communication, Family, Philosophy, Relationships, Trauma

Father’s day is normally considered a celebratory occasion filled with the requisite grilled dinner, gifts, and so on. But this year, it evokes a life lesson my late father passed on, and how it sustained me on Marathon Monday. For me, the best part of the Boston Marathon is the spirit of fellowship and togetherness […]

Each Year At this Time by Ralph Gilbert

By Beta on October 27, 2014 in Family, Philosophy, Relationships

EACH YEAR AT THIS TIME Each spring, ever since his own wife died, Saul would come over to our house for Passover. He sat next to me. I sat at the head of the table across from Paula, my own dear wife of over fifty years. We had become his local family. He always was […]

What Do I Know Anyway?

By Elliott Kronenfeld, LICSW, Guest Blogger on July 3, 2012 in Anxiety, Depression, General, Philosophy, Positive Pyschology, Rational Emotive Therapy, Social Anxiety, The 5 Best Communication Tips for Parents

There are many times that I sit with clients who are stuck, living with anxiety, depression or just feel like they don’t know how to move forward. The ongoing narrative in their head tells them a story that keeps them in that place. They tell me that they don’t know what to do and are […]