Two thousand years ago, crowds gathered in the Colosseum to watch human beings and animals fight, suffer, and die in front of massive cheering crowds.
I’ve spent most of my life working with children, teenagers, and families. Over the years, I became very good at helping people develop more self-awareness,
Disagreement is conflict. And conflict activates the nervous system. For many men, this process is intensified by the way they were raised. In environments where
For most of my career as a therapist, my work has been about empowerment. Helping people find their voice, trust their perceptions, set boundaries, and
A client asked me once, mid-session, “Why are you crying?” I wasn’t expecting it. But I wasn’t going to pretend it wasn’t happening. “Because someone
There is a lot of discussion today about “toxic masculinity.” While some men have a more nuanced understanding of that phrase, many of the men
Belief systems work because they’re shared. They give people a common language. A way of understanding the world. A way of knowing what matters.
The modern conversation about boundaries often treats them as static lines that individuals simply announce. My boundary. Your boundary. My right to say no.
We destroy our idols by refusing to let them have boundaries. At the beginning, there is admiration. Talent, presence, something that moves us. As that
“Don’t fight at home. Fight in front of me.” That’s something I say to many of the couples and families I work with. I say
I grew up in a house with two working parents and six kids. My father went to work and came home to dinner, television, and
We’ve created a world where children can access anything, at any time, in complete isolation. There is no filter, no pacing, no adult presence to help make sense of what they’re seeing. Just repeated, uncontained exposure.
At the beginning of therapy, particularly when an adolescent is involved, I tell clients something that often surprises them. I let them know that if
My mother was an opera singer. Music was part of how she lived. There was one composer she would not listen to: Richard Wagner. Her
Every Friday night, it was the same scene. My father would say the blessing over the bread. A quiet moment. Ritual. Tradition. Then, instead of
He was sixteen and a half when I met him. He had been sent to Canada from Syria to live with his mother. His father
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