I confess, I’m a lover of sad songs. And I’m not the only one. As a culture, we romanticize “feeling blue”. We have a whole genre of music, The Blues, that revels in hard times and love lost. But what happens when all that revelry turns to pure pain and melancholy? How do we know when …
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Listening 101
I recently enrolled in a short term course on analytic listening. The idea of this class is to help therapists think about how we listen and to improve our listening skills. After the first class, I was struck by how complicated listening is. It’s not just a one-way exchange. We are taking information in, processing …
First Envision-ings
This summer I had the pleasure of accepting a consulting in job in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was my first time ever going to Las Vegas and I had fully bought into the city’s last ad campaign, expecting to find gambling, drunken debauchery and a multitude of expensive circus performances. Although, all of those of …
Envision 