As I have mentioned before, we humans — social beings as we are — among other things, need love. Lots of it. We have the need to give love and get love. If we don’t we wilt! That’s how we have survived over thousands of years while trying to make it by the skin-of-our-teeth in…
Anxiety is good for you! It is a warning sign that something in your life may not be well. The trouble is if anxiety is excessive and out of place-as it some times for some people is. Then you have a problem. Let me explain. Anxiety feelings, like the sense of pain, are ways of…
Twenty-two years have passed since I recounted in this journal, the events and experience of my memorable trip together with my grandson Igor at the beach. ( “Igor, My Two-Year Old Grandson Takes Me For a Weekend at the Beach,” Psych. Times Aug. 1992) yet What a short time! Igor is now a young man- an aspiring scientist in biochemistry who is elegant,…
How to help your growing kids to develop a successful attitude for themselves and others by following as Parents four rules and a little love… Us human beings are made to be tough and enduring. We came from generations of our kind,who unfolded over thousands of years under very difficult circumstances. Our great great grandfathers…
My friends and patients often ask me: What is sadness? What is grief? What are the major depressions and how many kinds are there? Well this time, let’s first consider the sadness and grief we all feel from time-to-time. For all of us, this visit of sadness from time-to-time in our lives is the price…
In the face of it, a twenty-two month old toddler and a sixty-two year old man are separated by vast canyons, chasms and abysses of experiences, knowledge, accumulated cobwebs, barnacles, creaking bones and settled ways on one side and thousands of empty unwritten pages yet to be filled, on the other. That’s what you would…
Chroniclers of the Soul 