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  • Talking It Through: Can We Have A 21st Century Conversation?

    Tuesday, April 9, 2013

    The bottom line is, it’s about how we honor the love. First, the love of those we have lost, then, the love for those who remain. Lincoln at Gettysburg said, “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.” Just as we cannot compensate for the lives of those who are gone to those who lost them. The loss is too great. Our work now is different.

  • Talking It Through: Finding Pathways To Healing In The Written Word

    Thursday, April 4, 2013

    The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” —Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor

  • Talking it Through: Your Kids Need You This Year, Part II

    Friday, March 22, 2013

    Everything we know about resilience tells us that it grows best in our relationships with others. Resilience is that special ability to spring back from adversity. It’s a word also used to describe how we can become stronger as a result of the struggles in life. I was at the diner the other day with some friends. We were talking about our kids and how they were doing since 12/14 and how they can be more resilient. After several minutes of my friends talking, here is how the conversation went.

  • Talking It Through: Your Kids Need You This Year

    Wednesday, March 6, 2013

    As a psychiatrist, my off-duty conversations with people can run the gamut from the mundane to the very personal.  I was talking to a friend in town who described how he feels cut off from people he knows since the horrific tragedy in December. 

    “It hurts that some people I know really well, even family, haven’t reached out to me. Do they just not care?”  We talked about how they may have no idea what to say that would be helpful and not sound empty.   Not knowing what to say, they say nothing. 

  • Talking It Through: The School Shooting That Few Remember

    Wednesday, February 27, 2013

    What do you know about Chardon, Ohio? I have spent the past week putting this question to my friends and neighbors in Newtown, the place I have called home, off and on, since 1968. I asked my contacts, from the whip-smart hedge fund manager and graduate of Yale Law School to the big-hearted leader of a philanthropic foundation. Not one had heard of Chardon.