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Compartmentalizing
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Someone said today that he compartmentalized his life to the point that he is running out of compartments. Boy, could I ever relate! It reminds me of the cubbies that we had in kindergarten where we stashed our lunchboxes, prized items for show and tell, our blankies for nap time, coats and mittens, only…
Map of The World
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Today in my group for folks in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, a wise woman who is doing her internship with us, whose first career was as a world traveling journalist and who is back in school at the seasoned age of 58, to earn her MA as a Licensed Professional Counselor, brought in a…
International Women’s Day
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day. One block on the calendar out of 365 that was created to bring awareness to the acheivements of women as well as the perils that befall girls and women worldwide. The holiday came to be in the 1900’s with the advent of the sufragette movement which granted…
Bully vs. Ally
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Tonight in my job as a therapist in a drug and alcohol oupatient treatment center, I facilitated my weekly Women’s Group. The topic of negative self talk came up and the ways in which it sabotagued their successes and undermined their wellbeing. Some had habitual gloom and doom thoughts, envisioning the worst possible outcome. That…
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