There’s always a first time. I had a first this past weekend – a flat tire on my bicycle. I am not an avid biker; I bike for leisure and pleasure every now and then. This Sunday was a perfect spring day here in New York and I woke up saying to hubby Alan, “let’s […]
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein This quote says it all. There is a part of us that is way under-utilized. The gift of our own inner voice speaking to […]
Feel the pain; find the joy. Yes, it can be done. The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) group that I periodically join in as facilitator poignantly teaches me this yin yang of life. A bicycle accident leaves a man bereft of his ‘old’ life. He survives but he loses his life as he knew it. His […]
I was recently asked to facilitate a session for a Holocaust survivor support group. The topic was resilience. Now this is a subject that resonates strongly for me as I feel it’s the key to coping and handling life’s curvy and bumpy roads. However, as I got to thinking about my actual presentation, I thought […]
This week I was a part of two groups where the topic of discussion was self-care. In one group I was the facilitator for a group of moms whose children are in a rehabilitation hospital, critically ill due to accidents or illnesses. Ten years ago I was actually one of those moms whose daughter was […]
I recently saw the movie Being Flynn. It’s based on the memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, by Nick Flynn. The basic premise is, while working in a homeless shelter, Nick meets up with his estranged, homeless father. What follows is the poignant struggle of a son to reconnect that severed bond with a […]