by Dr Aletta | Mar 7, 2010 | Relationships
Mira Kirshenbaum is one of my favorite relationship experts. She has written two books that I often recommend to my patients: Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay and Women & Love. They are easy reads, full of compassion and insight. Last week as I contemplated...
by Dr Aletta | Nov 19, 2009 | Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Great name, right? Project Happily Ever After, a website/blog run by Alisa Bowman, a professional writer, was brought to my attention by a reader of this blog. Alisa's readers love her blog about her marriage and life with her family because it's fresh and...
by Dr Aletta | Nov 12, 2009 | Body/Mind, Chronic Illness
Steroids, corticosteroids, prednisone.* Do these words strike terror in your heart? Or are you grateful beyond measure for their existence? Both? Then chances are you, or someone you love, has a chronic illness that is reversed or relieved by steroids. I have been on...
by Dr Aletta | Sep 7, 2009 | Relationships
Do you ever take the temperature of your marriage? Is it doing OK? Fireworks still there? Not bad, but not great either? Or so cold, rigor mortis is setting in? Marital relationships are so complex it isn't easy to determine how... by Dr Aletta | Aug 13, 2009 | Family Matters, Relationships
The article 7 Ways to Give an Apology and 4 Ways to Accept One got some terrific attention from readers on this blog and on PsychCentral's World of Psychology it rose to top ten most popular posts when it was published there. Thank you to everyone who wrote...