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Inbox conversations straight from the couch of clinical psychologist Dr. Joy Lere. I share my perspectives on life, love, and work.
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Miscarriages Don’t Come with Meal Trains (opens the original)
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A close friend of mine had a miscarriage this week. It was the third baby she lost in a year. Amy confided in me two days after she had her first positive pregnancy test. Then, like each time before, she peed on a stick each day for a week. Just to make sure. Each morning the second pink line faded a little more, and her dream drifted up to heaven. She was gutted. I was too. I knew I was one of the only people in our friend circle who knew what was happening. I’m not sure she had even told her s
Insight & Action: January Starts Now (opens the original)
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Fall has always carried the feeling of a fresh start.New school years. New routines. A return to structure after summer. Even as adults, September can feel like an invitation to begin again. And maybe that makes it a better reset than January.We tend to think of a new year as a clean slate, but we never actually start from zero. We arrive in January car… Read more
Spent. (opens the original)
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My parents say that the day I stepped on the bus for my first day of kindergarten, I came home a different kid. For the first five years of my life, I was easy-going and happy-go-lucky. But after I started school, it was like a switch flipped. I came home spicier, with a sharp edge.In the classroom, I spent eight hours a day on my very best behavior. As a result, I received a lot of positive attention and praise from teachers and was popular with my peers. School was great. Home, on the other ha
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In life, we don’t always choose our stories. Sometimes they choose us. Then we must decide what we will do with them.As a psychologist, part of my job is to help clients tell, edit, and take authorship of their own life stories. In her book “Atlas of the Heart,” Brené Brown describes a concept called “story stewardship.” She explains, “Story stewardship means honoring the sacred nature of story—the ones we share and the ones we hear—and knowing that we’ve been entrusted with something valuable o
Insight & Action: The Space Between (opens the original)
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I was in a waiting room recently, one of those in-between spaces where you’re not sick enough to worry but not well enough to be anywhere else, and I found myself irritated. Not at the wait itself. I was antsy because I didn’t know how long I’d be sitting there. Give me an hour, and I can purpose it. But “We’ll call you back shortly”? I can’t settle int… Read more
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