: About Me

I am first of all a mom to a really great kid. I have a son who is 9 going on 30. I learn something from him every day. After that, I am a graduate student in Social Work at Smith College. I am working on a thesis this year exploring the relationships between social class perceptions, depth therapy and social pain theory. I spend a lot of time with little kids either in therapy or playing. I love my job as much as my life and feel fortunate to have the opportunity to train at one of the best institutions in the country so that I can give the best possible care to the children and families I work with. I currently live in Los Angeles and can't imagine living anywhere else. I love the city, particularly my neighborhood in Koreatown and all that comes with it. I love to write but write mostly for my field. I have a couple of book credits in the medical field, but I functioned as a ghost writer, so don't expect to find my name on them. I imagine some day I will write a novel just for the fun of it, but for the time being, I am enjoying the academic and writing that has been taking up my time.

My passion is ...

Children

I know too much about ...

psychotherapy

My parents always told me ...

do something with your life.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a country western singer.

My favorite memory ...

singing with my dad.

Why I write ...

to stay sane.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading lots of psychotherapy theory for school

My first job ...

babysitting

My best moment ...

giving birth to my son.

My inspiration ...

humanity.

Relationships & Family > Communication Issues Sharing your feelings in relationships

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There is a myth that men hate to share their feelings and women excel at it, maybe to an extreme. However, really we are all communicating all the time whether we like it or not. Even silence has something to say. Relationships are work no matter how easily the feelings flow. One of the most helpful theories I have encountered when thinking about sharing feelings is "Dialogue" used in Imago therapy as developed by Harville Hendrix. In a nutshell, this theory says that we select partners that resemble our past important people in some way, typically our primary caregivers. We select partner...

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