News & Updates
How to Stop Freaking Out : The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Cool When Life Gets Chaotic publishes on September 10, 2024 and I’m so freaking (haha!) excited to share it with all of you!
For more details about my first book for kids, head over to the book page or scroll down for a list of podcasts.
Self-Care is Easier Said Than Done
"The truth is that parenting is the most challenging endeavor of my life, and truly taking care of myself requires more than just fitting my needs into the nooks and crannies that are most convenient to my children. I wish the parenting experts would talk more about...
Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions With Therapist Carla Naumburg
"What I learned is that being a good therapist is about being able to stay truly present and accepting of someone else’s pain or fear, and that staying connected in hard moments is healing. Therapists don’t ever “fix” anyone, but if we’re doing our job well, our...
Mindful Parenting: Feeling Stuck
"The truth is that I've been really struggling with precisely what mindful parenting means to me and how I want to implement it in my life and with my family." The rest of my piece about feeling stuck is over at PsychCentral.com.
Mindful Parenting: We Can Always Begin Again
"Tonight was the kind of parenting night that led me to mindfulness practices in the first place. I was distracted and impatient, snappy and frustrated. The girls responded in kind; they were whiny and grumpy, they weren't listening or following directions. It was a...
Kindness and Mindful Parenting
"Kindness is about acting from a place of compassion and love. It’s easy to think of kindness as being nice, but there is a significant difference between the two." You can read more of my thoughts about kindness and mindful parenting over at my Mindful Parenting blog...
Single-tasking: My Most Important New Year’s Resolution
"In the past, my resolutions have been fairly predictable: lose weight, exercise more, read more, watch less TV, etc. Some of those are on my list again this year, but I’ve added one more—a resolution that, if I can stick with it, will help me achieve all of my other...
It’s Time to Talk About Therapy
"It’s time for all of that to change. We need to change the popular discourse about mental health and mental illness in our society, and it has to start with our community, with each one of us. We need to dispel the notion that there is a fundamental difference...
Celebrating Christmas with My Jewish Grandmother
“Mommy, is Grandma Dede Christian?” “No, sweetie, she’s not. She’s Jewish.” “Then why are we doing Christmas with her?” You can read the story behind this conversation with my 4-year-old daughter over at Kveller.com.
