Posted on Feb 8th, 2007 No Comments »
2/8/2007 Thursday 9am to 10am Pacific Time
We pack our children off to school, thinking they are the ones attending school. Wrong! We are ALL in school. Following precepts from her newest book, Born To Learn, Ilene uses stories of how her children taught her valuable emotional lessons to illustrate the idea that we […]
Posted on Nov 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Two young boys who last week lived in the same county have come to my attention this week. One, whom we will call “K.B.,” is 6 and has set off a huge chain of retribution by taking his father’s jack knife to school. The other, Raijon Daniels, was 8. He died this […]
Posted on Sep 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
I don’t even know if most people do it any more: marry with the intention of staying married for life. I did. Yet, I was only 19 years old when I married, with much to learn. My marriage did fine for nearly 8 years, until we added our first child. […]
Posted on Sep 7th, 2006 No Comments »
9/7/2006 Thursday 9am to 10am Pacific Time
A frequent repeat guest on Sally, Geraldo, Gordon, Montel, Maury, Ricki, and on radio and in print, Randy has been a family counselor since 1985. Married over 30 years, and with two adult children, she is also a lawyer, world traveler, and Mrs. Pennsylvania America 1993, 2nd Runner-Up. Randy’s […]
Posted on Aug 10th, 2006 No Comments »
8/10/2006 Thursday 9am to 10am Pacific Time
As a result of the rape of Mike’s sister when he was a young college student, Mike’s attention was focused on the issue of respectful, consensual dating and sex for young people. Finding that there were no programs educating our youth on this topic, he created some, and has […]
Posted on Jul 30th, 2006 No Comments »
A lot has happened since I wrote the following post two years ago, yet the thoughts contained therein are important to know and consider. Hence, I publish it for you now. Happy New Year!
Patterns of living are passed down from generation to generation. This happens through the vehicles of modeling, genes, interaction, highly-charged […]
Posted on Jul 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Patterns of living are passed down from generation to generation. This happens through the vehicles of modeling, genes, interaction, highly-charged experience, illness and the like. In the last month, I have been able to witness what is passing down the generations in the family of which I am a part; and I am […]
Posted on Jul 13th, 2006 No Comments »
7/13/2006 Thursday 9am to 10am Pacific Time
Houston-based Imago-trained Licensed Professional Counselor Renee Lederman started out as a middle school counselor, who had opportunity to observe how girls related to their bodies as they blossomed into womanhood. Intrigued, she began to interview women around the world–in Paris, Barcelona, Dubrovnik (Croatia) and throughout the […]
Posted on Jun 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Remember the name! Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago’s medical school, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and two of his medical colleagues, has just given us evidence from biology and cognitive science that Intermittent Explosive Disorder is a real “illness,” for which people can be diagnosed, […]
Posted on Mar 11th, 2006 No Comments »
During the hectic days of 1971 that followed my separation from my husband, re-enrollment in the graduate social work program and the beginning of my single-parenting years with a one-year old, I studied Aikido with Robert Nadeau at the Unitarian Church in San Francisco. This one-year study helped me to stay centered, exercise my body, […]