There is often an eerie moment in psychotherapy where silence takes over. Sometimes I don’t even notice it because it is fleeting and the pace of discussion ramps up and covers it over with its tail. Perhaps there is a lump in my throat that I feel, but otherwise, the face and tone of…
Our bodies carry a deep intelligence. They remember, very deeply, the turns that our lives take. We can dream of people with such vividness, it is as if we can reach out and touch their faces that are stuck in time, and yet, we may have not seen them for decades. How? What is…
I had the pleasure this week of speaking to the brilliant Dustin Atlas on the podcast. At some point during our conversation, I remarked to Dustin that I think most of the time my job is helping people be disappointed. The reason this came up is because Dustin and I were talking about the work…
Great Sex Does Not Lead To Great Intimacy, Great Intimacy Leads to Great Sex – Dr. Sue Johson Sex is often a place where couples connect and can be one of the first places where couples start to feel distant which in turn can cause a lack of intimacy. It can be…
As my guest today, Dr Mitchell Smolkin says, “Placebo gets a bad rap”. Yes, that’s right, I interviewed Mitchell Smolkin, another Mitchell Smolkin, who has also had a lifelong interest in how human beings suffer and wrote a book about it over 30 years ago entitled “Understanding Pain: Interpretation and Philosophy”. What was…
I recently had the opportunity to do an interview with my son Gabriel, who is 10 years old. The discussion with him was very moving for me. He opened up about parts of our relationship that I never knew and also shared with me some hurt that I caused him that I was aware of…
I recently took some vacation and decided for a part of it, a week to be exact, that I would unplug from work completely. For some of you, this may seem like a no-brainer, but to others, there may be some fear that is evoked at the thought of completely shutting things down. I fall…
As a parent, when you’re freaked out about the direction of where your child is going, do you trust that they’re going to make the right decision? Or are you too scared they’re going to fall short of your expectation? Clinical mental health counselor Pripo Teplitsky and host of the podcast, Relationships! Let’s Talk…
Positive parenting is fundamentally about developing a strong and deeply committed relationship between parent and child. The theory relies heavily on what we have learned about attachment and how we can use it beneficially. The more that we work against attachment in the relationship, the harder parenting becomes. There are some core positive parenting…
The success of how two people in a relationship communicate is fundamentally tied to trust. What does this mean? The sense that you can count on someone else to take you seriously, respond to your needs most of the time and share their own concerns forms the basic fabric of any healthy relationship. If this…