Harriet Cabelly, LCSW
Therapist . Speaker . Author
I’m sure we’ve all, at some point, looked at someone going through a difficult time who appears to be handling it fairly well and remarked, ‘I could never be like them, they’re so strong.’ And we think they’re just naturally strong and can handle anything. The truth is (according to...
People sometimes say, ‘Don’t just sit there, do something.’ But we have to reverse that statement to say, ‘Don’t just do something, sit there.’” Thich Nhat Hanh The introduction and now prevalence of the concept of mindfulness into mainstream society (not just up on mountain tops with monks and...
Walking along a beautiful nature trail, crunching those fallen golden leaves under our feet, hubby says, “ so what’s your schedule for tomorrow (Monday). A very common question for him. My response has lately become, “Let’s not talk about tomorrow right now, let’s just focus on here and now and...
It all seems to be coming together in some strange way but I’m not sure to what end. Last month I went on a week-long history trip to Poland to visit the new and old of Jewish Poland. We went to the concentration camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau, the forests...
The official holiday season is upon us. A time to be joyful and happy. But for oh so many it’s not quite that glowing a time. In fact, it’s the opposite. And because the hoopla is so high and dazzled with such excitement, the low tide of those feeling...
Going through your regular daily chores of living or dealing specifically with a rough, challenging situation(s) requires you to keep yourself replenished so that you can carry on well, cope and give to those in your care. In other words, minimize running on empty, burning out and falling apart. Just...
Unless you’re looking at a tombstone, you’re probably not going to notice or certainly not think about the little line between the person’s birth date and death date. And even when you see it, you may not really think about and reflect on what that line means. It means everything! ...
Ah, the power of the question to get us thinking, really thinking; to reach a layer of ourselves that perhaps we haven’t yet examined or even thought about. This is one way we can peel away the layers and continue to get to know our real selves - what matters...
I was like a tourist yesterday going to a landmark I had never been to right in my own backyard; well it was a two hour drive. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park, New York. I'm not a museum person but I am a memoir person and love...
My rabbi gave a beautiful sermon this past Saturday in synagogue. He spoke of passion and compassion as being closely tied together; that just by adding ‘com’ to the word passion, you’ve created the greatest virtue of all. Both words call upon us to feel deeply. I never thought of...
