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Is This What It Is Like to Be Ants? (opens the original)
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As life after summer break has returned full throttle, I’ve been thinking of how to hold onto my summer mountain state of mind I wrote about in my last newsletter. I’ve grown increasingly aware of the feeling that I—and many people I treat—have been dealing with: a fractured sense of time, as if it just slips away. Half heard conversations, no recollection of the drive to the grocery store, a headline read but no material absorbed from the actual article. This
Oh, This is What Matters! (opens the original)
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After seventeen peaceful days of traveling over 5,000 miles with my family, it took me half a day back at home to lose my cool and start barking at the children, “pick this up, put that there! How have you managed to trash the house in the one hour I was lying down?”When I say seventeen peaceful days, I want to elucidate some details. In what we joked was a Griswold style vacation, we road tripped in our Honda Odyssey from Los Angeles to visit family in Michigan. Then went up and over the lake,
Write Your Way Through (opens the original)
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Last volume I wrote about the nuances of being a therapist and a writer—the juxtaposition of being the holder of secrets and the teller of stories, and the slippery balance of personal disclosure and clinical insight. Balancing these personas is far less binary as I age. I also spoke about the desire to be of service all the time, and how that in some ways, may hem in my expression — both on the page and in life! I’m going to offer you a few of what I call therapeutic writing prompts to explo
A Freckled-Faced Locked Box...Who Also Writes (opens the original)
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It’s a bit awkward to be a therapist and a writer. There are of course the obvious pros—as a therapist you are very much attuned to the patterns of human behavior. I listen for hours every day, deciphering undercurrents of need. I work with people to elucidate the web-like history of their emotional life and how they operate in relationships. And I am a sucker for symbol, metaphor, and dreams—they can be shockingly revealing and healing in treatment. These are all sort of writerly things to do o
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