Giving Thanks & Loving
This is the time of year for giving thanks, celebrating, giving gifts and preparing for dinners and parties, all packed into a short period of time. Many are stressed by their schedule and by trying to...
View ArticleFighting For The Good Of Our Girls
After President-elect Trump’s “Grab them by the p****” comment hit the airwaves a few weeks before the National election, Kelly Oxford, a Canadian author suggested to women: “Tweet me your first...
View ArticleWhen Does Your Personal New Year Start?
Even though on January 1 the calendar changes the year in which the whole world connects, all of us have many other staring points of annual renewal throughout the year. Chinese New Year starts at the...
View ArticleThe Risk to Grow
A new year is born and with it so many hopes and dreams. So many resolutions, made as the clock struck midnight, are probably on their way to be delayed. Yet, the new year does inspire thoughts of...
View ArticleNew Years Resolutions, Success or Bail?
We’re almost a month into 2017. There are many great traditions and festivities that recur during the month of December accompanying Christmas and New Years. Complimenting champagne toasts and...
View ArticleSpeaking to My Ex Husband’s Mistress
A couple of months ago, I called the woman who had an affair with my ex-husband, almost two decades later. It was all pre-arranged. This is not a random call you make. The outcome was beyond my wildest...
View ArticlePack These Tools for a Journey to Change
When making a major life change it is best to begin from a position of strength. Self-compassion and awareness are two essential tools. Social Conditioning and life circumstances can influence our view...
View ArticleFather’s Day For Kids Who Aren’t Loved ByTheir Father
Welcome to the reality that not all fathers want to love their children. Fatherly “love”, the emotional willingness and availability to listen, care, and feel happy from ongoing involvement with the...
View ArticleWho is That Voice In Your Head? Mind Chatter
If you are like most people, there is this little voice in your head constantly talking to you. It’s known as mind chatter. From the moment we open our eyes this little voice may be telling us, what...
View ArticleIf You Went Back to “Self” School
During all the hopeful anticipation of a new academic season, to be among familiar classmates and develop new relationships with other students, September also encourages us to naturally review and...
View ArticleBack to School for All Ages
Families are preparing for their children to return to school. Children are either excited, or they are unhappy to give up their freedom the summer provided, or they may be very anxious. Will they be...
View ArticleHow To Get Un Stuck
Ever have one of those days when you feel stuck? You’re in a funk and don’t know why? You’re unhappy but you can’t put your finger on the “why”? FamilyAffaires.com contributor Joanna Kleinman, LCSW...
View ArticleTaking Time to Breathe
Do you often feel like a hamster on a wheel? Running, running, running and never getting anywhere? Do you set a list for yourself and decide it will enough when I complete, this, this and this. But...
View ArticleThe Gift of Yourself for the Holidays
The holiday conflicts we often experience have to do with people and things that don’t fit in with our way of thinking or being. Yet we all want to belong and feel accepted. I recently began reading...
View ArticleFinding Peace After Christmas and Facing the New Year Empowered
As the holidays pass, not everyone experienced the “Merry” of Christmas nor is everyone looking to a “Happy” New Year. ~Some of us ate alone on Christmas. ~Some were missing people at their table....
View ArticleNew Year UN Resolution
Did you come up for air yet? Have you just taken what seems like your first breath since the day before Thanksgiving? Or are you still going at warp speed from the holiday rush? Still in hyper mode...
View ArticleThe Women’s March, January 20, 2018
Women’s March, NYC, Saturday, January 20, 2018 I’m going. I’m bringing my young daughter. There’s a morning train heading to Penn Station that day; she and I will be on it. It’s a sad testament that I...
View ArticleBe Gentle With Yourself When Life Obstacles Meet You
The most typical reactions when blocked from continuing a work or relationship path on which we are happy, are fear, hurt, and self-doubt. “How do I get overcome what was strong enough to stop me from...
View ArticleChange as a Choice
Change is a topic we can address forever because it’s always happening! And we, as humans, are usually averse to it. There is a coherence to sameness that we enjoy. When it gets interrupted we fight to...
View ArticleGraduate To Yourself
In case you will be at a graduation ceremony and feel restless while waiting to hear the name of your graduate, here is a meaningful way to pass the time. Reflect on all the times you graduated your...
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