Join the Club: How We Seek to Belong
When we join a club, we commit time, money, or both to attain membership, and in so doing, receive nominal benefits like access to activities or a swimming pool or holiday festivities. But we also get something more.
Rethinking the Golden Rule
As kids many of us were taught the Golden Rule: treat others the way you want to be treated. I can remember the first time, however, I realized that the Golden Rule might not be totally right.
Baby It’s Cold Inside: When A Big Personality Consumes The Family System
I recently had the pleasure of seeing Bradley Cooper play Leanord Bernstein (“Lenny”) in the film Maestro. As a former violinist, I was reminded of so many of my own musical experiences.
Tidings of Discomfort and Joy
The message of “happy holidays” is everywhere right now. It’s the go-to greeting for at least another week, and even when we’re not saying it to each other, we’re all still thinking it as we’re bombarded with images of happy families, mountains of gifts, sumptuous meals, and snowy adventures. But are the holidays really as happy as they’re depicted? The answer as we all know is that holidays can be… complicated.