In family therapy, the therapist often looks to identify the roles that each family member takes on. In 1981, Sharon Wegschneider-Cruse...

Do you get down in the winter? Do you find it harder to be motivated, exercise and eat healthy? Is it harder for you to get up in the...

Full disclosure: I love Purim. It’s my favorite day of the year. I love the family themed costumes, the singing, dancing, levity, skits,...

Anyone who has grown up in a religious environment is all too familiar with the tension between performing rituals out of route habit...

Should dad come to parenting sessions? Most therapists assume yes - two heads are better than one, right? But what if the scheduling is...

In this week’s parsha, parshat Va’eira, we encounter a unique and peculiar phrase: .ויְדַבֵּר מֹשֶׁה כֵּן אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְלֹא...

At the end of a twenty two year saga, Yosef is able to look back on it all and see how everything that happened to him was part of God’s...

(This article was originally published in the OU mental health newsletter https://www.ou.org/life/health/mental-health/vayigash-lean-in-t...

This article was published in the Nassau Herald by Jeff Bessen Link to original article here: https://www.liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/...