I’m a friendly person. I enjoy chatting with strangers, and having pleasant, casual interactions. 

I love my Peloton and give out high fives to my fellow riders when I join the ride, when I leave the ride, and, yes, while I’m riding.

I drive a Jeep, and was thrilled to discover, that Jeep owners wave to one another on the road. I have enthusiastically joined in this practice. 

At the beginning of 2016, I engaged in an exercise to identify a ‘Word for the Year.’ To essentially choose a word that would be my theme for the year, that would serve as my guiding intention for the next 12 months.

Did you read this book as a kid? I remember loving this book! But now, as an adult, and particularly as an anxiety therapist, I see it through a fresh perspective.  

We've intuitively known that our cell phones and social media were changing the way we think, process, and attend, and also, in how we relate to other people. The data bears that out, and it's, not surprisingly, scary.

Like anxiety, the Howler ramps up it’s response to being avoided, escalating to explosions, curses, and insults!

We work to heal the self-hatred and the self-loathing, and be able to respond to that critical voice … so that weight loss does happen, but it happens as a side effect of the deeper, more emotional work that’s happening … because that’s what is really holding us back.