The blog includes articles I have written over the last few years, as well as a weekly post where I share what’s on my mind, even if it’s an undeveloped idea that popped up when I was stirring a vat of cheese!
You are receiving this on what in the U.S. is Thanksgiving Day. I am writing it, however, on the 22nd of November, a sad day
As I reflected on the upcoming domestic Thanksgiving holiday, it occurred to me that I have so much more to say about food and eating.
When I was preparing for my recent talks in Oxford, I actively reviewed my historical roots as a therapist and especially in the trauma field.
Amidst all the devastation of war, weather events and anxiety surrounding the upcoming US election, I remind everyone, including myself, to carefully regulate their news
When I was perhaps as young as four years old, my mother taught us a little apology ritual. I don’t know how she devised it
Next week’s Jewish High Holiday Yom Kippur brings many thoughts. My childhood memories of that day are spotty and mostly painful. Our dad being the
Again, so strange these flights of memory. I remember years ago Bessel saying that trauma is a looping cycle, a carousel of remembering and forgetting,
I woke up with a start after my unheard-of, third-in-a-row, almost eight-hour night of sleep. Amazing. I am not sure if it is sheer and
I was stunned, several weeks ago, to hear from a very old friend of mine, out of the blue. I mean a really old friend,
Perhaps I am one of the few who has not been watching the Paris 2024 Olympics, but that notwithstanding, I could not help but hear