I once had the opportunity to meet the mayor of Alsace, a region in eastern France where the Alsatian language is pretty well dead. The mayor spoke to me about a book that he had written which talked about endings. He wanted to explore the idea of a beautiful end. This idea of a…
Welcome to episode 32. In today’s episode, I have a meaningful chat with a psychotherapist, couples therapist, and certified emotionally focused therapist Louise Wästlund. One of the reasons that I love this interview is that, if you’re not familiar with the research that looks into the neurobiology of attachment, Louise’s way of talking about…
Welcome to episode 31. I feel quite inspired as we all realize that the holidays are soon upon us. For those of us that live in parts of the world that get colder at this time of year, things really start to change. As we get into late November, things are getting ready for this…
This episode is the third in a series of podcasts that I have been recording on the subject of shame. I think it’s a really important area of investigation because, as the neurologist Stephen Porges points out, the strong emotions that human beings contain drive our actions, our thoughts, our behaviors, and our decision-making. There…
More and more people who walk into my office are sharing with me that they get to know me here in this space and feel in some ways that they already know a bit about me before they walk through my door. It’s an interesting feeling. In some ways, it’s kind of nice to have…
Welcome to episode 28. As many of you who listen to the podcast know, I just came off of a really intense, creative journey with some colleagues and friends from a number of different countries. We all met in Sweden to work on a project which is tentatively called the Boris Project or Boris’s map.…
Today is another special episode that links back to last week. If you listened to last week’s episode where I met and interviewed and talked with my fellow artists and collaborators, then you’ll recognize some of the melodies in today’s episode which we recorded in the great synagogue in Stockholm, this beautiful art deco sanctuary…
This episode is inspired by a letter that was written by my great grandmother to her son, my grandfather, in 1941. These would be the last letters that she would ever write or he would ever receive from her. I am exploring this material in Stockholm, trying to take something from these artifacts of a…
When I was thinking of creating a podcast or some of the books that I’d like to write, one of them is to go in this direction of “Confessions of a Couple’s Therapist.” If you’re new to the podcast, you can go back and listen to me do a session with a couple live, which…
This conversation today is quite a close topic to my heart. I interview podcaster and life coach Furkhan Dandia who left the corporate world as an engineer and had this realization in his life that it would be important for him to devote his energies and his time to helping facilitate conversations between men. As…