Caring for the Caregiver: Yourself
Caregiving for loved ones is more than a full time job. It is demanding physically, emotionally and spiritually. Caregiving requires endless patience and a focus…
Parenting During Pandemics
Keeping Calm and Helping Kids Cope With more schools and offices closing daily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most parents are finding themselves at home…
Helicopter or Lawnmower Parent?
Helicopter parents were all the rage in the early 2000s as the Millenials first headed off to college. These dedicated parents are known for hovering…
More Than the Baby Blues?
I have yet to meet a mother, or any parent for that matter, who has described the experience of becoming a parent as easy or…
Dogs, Cats & Couples
Couples Resolutions
The onset of a new year often kindles aspirational planning, also known as New Years resolutions. You want to be happier, healthier and more fulfilled.…
Conscious Uncoupling IRL
Gwyenth Paltrow’s Goop.com made the term Conscious Uncoupling a household name in recent years. Coined by Katherine Woodward Thomas, the term has come to describe…
Jumpstarting Your Sex Life
The Blissful Beginning In the beginning sex seems to magically happen. It can feel like there is a magnet between partners–a force that draws them…
Myths of Couples Therapy
Half of all marriages end in divorce. That is a staggering statistic. And yet, many people are terrified to seek help from a therapist when…
When is it Time for Therapy?
In California, going to therapy seems to be as common as going to yoga. Executives all the way down to the interns mention their therapists…