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Hello, My Name Is Lawyer – How Identity Is Wrapped Up In What We Do.
“First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus “What do you do for a living?” It’s a simple enough question; one we hear nearly every day. We know what is meant...
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My F’d Up Family – Holiday Movie Edition
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” - George Bernard Shaw Every year around this time I have to come to terms with the fact that I just don’t really like the...
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Think Like a Lawyer (But Don’t Feel)
“Don’t think… Feel.” – Bruce Lee Recently, I attended my 15th year law school reunion. It was great to see old friends, renew lost connections, and make new ones. I struck up a conversation with a...
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Think Like A Lawyer – To Feel Like a Human Being Again
“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.” – Dalai Lama In my last post, I talked about how lawyers are trained to think. Objectively....
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How To Talk About Therapy II – Confronting The Fear
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” - Japanese Proverb. I got a lot of really great feedback about my recent post, I’m Not Saying You’re Crazy – How To Talk About Therapy. Thank you all for...
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Fallacies In The “Wisdom” of Psychopaths
“Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.” – Elie Wiesel. In the new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What saints, spies and serial killers can teach us about success, by Kevin Dutton, we are...
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Raging Against The Machine – Health Insurance v. Healthcare
“Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” ~ Ambrose Bierce. When I was a...
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Get Your Hopes Up – There’s Little Reason Not To
“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” ~ Thomas Carlyle ~ I was talking to a friend recently who was telling me about a job opportunity she was interested in. It sounded like a...
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Searching for A Profound Experience
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”- Lao Tzu I recently visited the Elements Behavioral Health facilities in Malibu California. These...
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Thank You For Your Support!
I was recently featured in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly column Uncommon Law, in an article entitled “Counselor at Law,” about my transition out of the law and the journey to becoming a social...
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