Tag: Happiness
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Welcome, New Year!
Birds start each new day with a song. I like to think that their song is extra melodious on the start of a new year. Some good advice for 2023 My first post of the year is short and sweet. First, I want to share some good advice I read in the NY Times yesterday…
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Happy Holly Days!
I hope all of you are having a lovely holiday season filled with sweet surprises and acts of kindness – given and received. I was reminded on Christmas Day that gifts come in all shapes and sizes and that some of the best gifts are not wrapped. I trust you can all relate to that.…
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Favorite Thanksgivings
I decided to write a positive piece on Thanksgiving after my last dreary commentary on difficult family dynamics this time of year. I have definitely had some wonderful Thanksgivings. I want to share three that pop into mind when I think about happy Thanksgiving memories. The first one took place in Boston about 30 years…
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Preparing for Winter While Daydreaming of Florence
It’s been six months since I’ve returned from my two-month stint in Italy. I know that I’ve been lucky to be there as often as I have recently…three weeks last autumn and two months this past winter/spring….but the longing has returned. It has actually been quite beautiful around here of late with the autumnal leaves…
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Pursuit of Happiness…
By Melissa Betrone Sometimes the pursuit of happiness feels like a punishment. We hear every day about some product or service designed to bring us closer to this feeling–a glade plugin, a diet plan, an app, longer lasting lipstick, a trip to Disney World. Messaging surrounds us, reminding us that happiness is the goal, and…
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The Piano Man Never Disappoints
Written by Brad With the superb Santana concert still fresh in our minds, Donna and I headed west for the next stop on our summer concert series. On the 4-hour drive to Pittsburgh we listened to every Billy Joel CD I owned to prepare ourselves for the night ahead and refresh our memories with his…
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Thoughts on Ego
The word ego is thrown around quite a bit and has more than one meaning. It may be most commonly thought of as having self-confidence or self-importance. In psychoanalytic theory, Freud describes the ego as being part of the make-up of our psyche, along with our id and superego. Here the ego mediates between the…
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Do you love yourself?
I was talking with a fellow therapist recently who also grew up in a religious home and I was commenting on how far I’ve come in terms of liking myself. My friend replied, “but do you love yourself?” I’m not sure how I answered her that day, but that question stayed with me. Do I…
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New Moon
We are entering a new moon cycle. A new moon will be on the horizon tomorrow evening at 10:52 pm EST. At that time, the moon and the sun will be joined together in the sky. We will not be able to see the moon right away as it will sit in total shadow, briefly,…
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Italy Again
It’s been awhile since I’ve written. I went to Italy for two months on a “networking tour” to see how feasible it would be to move there. Thankfully, I was able to continue my virtual sessions with clients. There are a couple of different roads one can take to spend more time in Italy, a…
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