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People to Watch: Hudson Valley
January 26, 2012 | 
Author This was one of the best welcomes I have ever had, or could hope to have. While I'm still missing New Mexico terribly, this article about Verbal First Aid, The Next Osama, and my general practice as a psychotherapist and homeopath certainly took some of the sting out.
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Sociopaths on Parade
Again.
The other night during the news there was an announcement for a rerun of the interview done with the Madoff family. I looked at my husband, the question in my face.
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Posted in Blog, Hudson Valley Psychotherapy, Keynote Speaker, Verbal First Aid | Tags: ABC, CBS, Charlie Sheen, entitlement, Interviews, Madoff, Madoff family, sociopaths | 15 Comments »
The Necessary Death of Romance
In My Lost City, Fitzgerald wrote, “I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage.” He was referring to the life and the loves that he and so many others had enjoyed in New York when it truly roared in the 1920’s.
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Posted in Blog, Faith-based Counseling, Hudson Valley Psychotherapy | Tags: advertising, CS Lewis, false hope, Fitzgerald, Madiison Avenue, market crash, Roaring Twenties, Romanticism | 8 Comments »
How Dreams Really Do Come True.
The Force of Will or the Fancy of Fortune?
I've dreamt about farming all my life. You wouldn't know it by the way I live, but it's true. Somehow over all these years, my dreams and my realities have been separated by an inexplicable chasm.
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Posted in Blog, Holistic Psychotherapy | Tags: beef farming, control, farm, Fortune, sustainability, Will | 4 Comments »
Five Questions You Better Ask Your Kids!
This is a guest blog by author Vanessa Van Petten, creator of RadicalParenting.com a parenting website written from the teen perspective to help parents understand them. She is also the author of the parenting book, “Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I’m Grounded?” (http://www.radicalparenting.com/books-and-products/book-youre-grounded/)
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The Separation Question: Who's More Afraid, Parent or Child?
Recently I found out that a beloved niece — one with whom I lived until she was about two years old — was pregnant. And suddenly, everything I had learned to let go of as she became a toddler, then again as a school-age child, then a teenager, then a young adult, then a married woman, had flown out the window. I had grabbed hold of that life-long chain of release, release and re-release and pulled it back to me and rolled it into a big knot. Then, I found out that she (in her last trimester) and her husband were going to visit the wild, wonderful world of Mickey Mouse in the height of summer. Every adrenal-driven, hormone-based horror came rushing out like a hot flash. I thought of every ride that could make her sick, every long drive that could give her a blood clot, every soda that would push her blood sugar into a snit. What if X and what if Y? And did you talk to your doctor? And how will you ever be able to stand on line?
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Posted in Blog, Holistic Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy | Tags: babies, children, fears, letting go, parenting, separation, toddlers | No Comments »
Am I Mine?
[Currently appearing in Huffington Post, Religion section.]
Am I?
Yesterday I sat watching a storm tumble in as they can do only in this region of the country — catapulting, cranky and fast. There were spiny shards of lightning, whipping sheets of rain you could see approach from a distance of 30-40 miles, and a thunder roll that had three large dogs shaking behind my legs.
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Whatever Happened to Luck?
The other day a client of mine tearfully revealed a childhood filled with fear. Her father was an unpredictable and menacing man who was nearly as big as the front door. She was only a toddler, but she had vivid memories of him hollering as he came into the kitchen, the sweet smell of too much whiskey floating off his skin as he picked up a utensil to beat her mother. Her mother, also a drug user, in rage at her husband, tried to drown her by pouring soap and water down her throat. She was saved with mere seconds to go by a neighbor who had heard the screaming.
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Posted in Blog | Tags: American culture, blame, Calvinism, control, extremism, karma, luck, Mystery, Providence, serenity prayer, trauma | No Comments »
The Next Osama Syndrome Part II: It’s For Real
Just as I’d predicted, as soon as Osama bin Laden was dead, it didn’t take a millisecond for the question to show up on every news wire and blog:
Who’s the next one? Where is he? This is how our culture works. As soon as one terror is wiped up, another one is splattered across the screens.
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The Next Osama Book "Trailer"
After quite a steep learning curve, the book trailer is finally done. It has been a process of fits and starts but the whole thing came together thanks to the efforts of Scott Clark and Dave Heidt.
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