“I think about you every day and I don’t know why I haven’t called you.” I weep as I write these words because they were spoken by one of my oldest friends during our final conversation. Robbie and I became best friends during my senior year in college and my first year in graduate school. […]
“It Is Only with the Heart That One Can See Rightly. What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye”
It Is Only with the Heart That One Can See Rightly. What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye. Antoine De Saint Exupery The Little Prince COVID tells us to keep our distance from one another, that if we get too close we could become fatally ill. We keep our distance from each other […]
Book recommendation
“First We Make the Beast Beautiful: a New Story about Anxiety.” The Pennsylvania Psychological Association recently formed a book club and recommended this book to start with. I never joined the book club, but I did read the book and it was one of the best books I have ever read on anxiety. It’s personal, […]
Thursday, Sept 9th – Never Forget: shared grief on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11th
Thursday, Sept 9th – Never Forget: Collective memory and shared grief on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11th 20 years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, many who witnessed the horror that day can still recall images of the two burning towers, dust-covered crowds running to safety through the streets of lower Manhattan and first […]
Article from 2019 about my sex abuse in the Boy Scouts
Shame of the Boy Scouts: I was sexually abused by my troop leader | Perspective Dr. Daniel Gottlieb, an award-winning psychologist and former host of a popular WHYY radio show, writes about the shame he felt after being sexually abused by his Boy Scout troop leader when he was 12 years old. Dr. Dan Gottlieb […]
Saying goodbye to mother. Again
Dear Mom, In a few days, it will be the 23rd anniversary of your death. Although I was deeply saddened when it happened, I love the story that preceded it. You and dad were at a New Year’s Eve party at the Traymore hotel in Atlantic City along with many of your friends. Quite spontaneously […]
Heart to Heart: A Conversation Between Dan Gottlieb and Tara Brach
A Thanksgiving story:
Several days ago I was in my office when I felt my blood pressure spike. After a couple of minutes it went down but then it went up again. Although uncomfortable, this is not unusual. This is the way my body reacts to a noxious stimulus that I cannot feel. When this happens, 90% of […]
Adult children can still torment their father!
I had a talk with my 2 adult daughters about a very serious matter. I told them that I did not want to be buried when I died, I wanted to be cremated so as not to take up more space on this planet. I expected tears or one of them to try to convince […]
From Anger to Compassion
“First, you cry” is the title of Betty Rollins memoir about her breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy. If someone had asked me how I felt after watching the killing of George Floyd, I wouldn’t have known how to answer. I knew I felt rage towards the policeman and deep grief about Mr. Floyd’s family. And […]
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