Tag: psychotherapist
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Of Riding Ellipticals, Counting Minutes, and The Challenge of Parenting …
Like the teacher in my psychology program who said that the hardest thing about parenting was the time required, I find that I never have enough. Mothering three daughters, seeing to my husband, or rather attending our marriage, along with my work as a psychotherapist, and writing novels proves daunting. I count minutes in much…
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Of Life, Revelations, and Our Differences That Bind …
Not a day has passed during the three weeks since posting my last blog that I have not felt guilty for failing to hold to my schedule of blogging. It is a promise I give to myself, and a responsibility I maintain as a published writer. The nagging feeling that has haunted me now abates…
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Of Daughters, Actions and Self-Awareness…
“[D]aughters can model a great deal from a mother who is self-aware herself,” says Juanita Johnson in, Know Thyself First (Part 6 of Our Mothers, Ourselves: Mother-Daughter Relationships) A storyteller and psychotherapist, who, along with her 27-year-old-daughter gives talks and workshops on the mother-daughter relationship, Johnson adds, “…I observe quite frequently that [a] mother knows…

