Being with Powerful Emotions in the City

By Rob Handelman, Ph.D.
This blog entry took me a while to write, as my mother died a month or so ago. This is not about grief (for a nice paper on mindfulness and grief, click HERE), but how to be with such pain while having to function in our real, urban world.
When my mother died, I was [...]

‘Tis the Season: Mindful Touring NYC with a Friend

By Irene Javors, LMHC
For the last two weeks, a very dear friend has been staying with me. She recently lost her beloved partner of some forty years and she has come to visit. She is immersing herself in the city’s cultural riches In all my spare moments, I have been going with her to [...]