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Addictive Personalities

  Excerpted from September 10, 2012 show on A Fine Time for Healing, entitled Addictive Personalities How do you envision someone with an addictive personality? Do you picture an   alcoholic, someone strung out on drugs, a chain smoker, or a … Continue reading

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Relationship Codependency: Everything You Need to Know

Excerpted from the  April 21,2011 episode of my radio show, A Fine Time for Healing  Roughly 100 million Americans suffer the effects of codependency today. Relationship codependency is often referred to as the “White Knight” syndrome, because the codependent tends … Continue reading

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Fine…ly Chapter Twenty-One: The Backgammon Game

  Excerpted from my memoir, Fine…ly: My Story of Hope, Love, and Destiny    “Relationships don’t just happen. They take work.” I don’t know exactly where I heard that advice but the concept had stuck to my psyche like burs to … Continue reading

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Self Inflicted Guilt: Breaking the Cycle

  Why are so many of us able to offer kindness and compassion  to others, but not to ourselves?   One of the most damaging ways in which we tend to abuse ourselves is through feelings of guilt.  Often this tendency was  inflicted upon us in childhood–many of … Continue reading

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How I Found Faith

  I was brought up in a Jewish, kosher home.  Our family life revolved around Judaism.   My grandfather was an Orthodox Cantor.  I went to Hebrew School three times a week for six years and became a Bat Mitzvah.  Even our … Continue reading

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Book Excerpt: Fine…ly

     On Monday night, August 25, 1980 I went to sleep alone in my apartment; Sandra was spending the night downstairs at Bob’s place. Around three a.m. in the morning a strange mixture of sounds woke me out of my … Continue reading

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Be Gentle With Yourself

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you ever been hard on yourself or felt pressured?  Of course you have – we all have.  Now reflect back and think about how … Continue reading

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Fine…ly Chapter Twelve: The Tarnished White Knight

      He continued, “I admitted myself into the Sheppard Pratt Hospital drug rehab program a year ago. I’d lost control of my life and desperately needed help. I spent one month as an inpatient detoxing and learning how to … Continue reading

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Book Excerpt: Fine…ly

     The next morning, and every morning for the remainder of the week, I was ignored again. My only option was to restlessly revert back to thumb twiddling for eight hours a day, though I did make an interesting observation … Continue reading

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Book Excerpt From: Fine…ly

Thinking back, I vividly recall watching with renewed fascination as Mom’s hairdresser teased and coifed her thick red tresses into a stiffly set “Beehive” hairdo each week at her standing Friday morning Beauty Shop appointment. Afterwards we’d pick up a freshly baked, twisted … Continue reading

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