Posts Tagged ‘holidays’
An Empty Seat at the Table: Grief at the Holidays
Michele Marsh, PhD
Dr. Michele Marsh is a licensed psychologist and certified sex therapist at our Center City location. Dr. Marsh’s specialty areas include trauma, sexuality throughout the life cycle, sexual abuse, affairs, depression and anxiety, parenting issues, and loss and grief. Sparkling lights, candles in the… Read More
When Holidays Are Blue
Wanda Sevey, MDiv, LMFT
It has been a privilege for me to accompany people on their evolving journeys with grief and, despite what department store and elevator music is telling us, this is not always the ‘happ-happiest’ time of the year for everyone. All of us have experienced some… Read More
Rules of Engagement: When Adult Children Come Home for the Holidays
Susan Neumann Gordon, MSW, MBA, LMFT
For many of us holidays have a sort of sacred meaning with familiar traditions and family togetherness across generations. And then everything changes. Parents and grandparents die. Kids grow up, leave home and bring new people to the table. How can we adapt to change,… Read More
The Benefits of Being Thankful
Wanda Sevey, MDiv, LMFT
It started a few weeks ago. Every day a few more catalogs arrive, each one enticing me to overspend my holiday budget. Even worse for me, when I open my favorite online newspaper I see links to hundreds if not thousands of recipes for holiday… Read More
It’s Not Always a White Christmas. Complicated Families: Complicated Holidays
Margaret Shapiro, LCSW, BCD
Family holidays used to be simpler, at least that is the myth. When family members look more alike, have similar ideas of how the holidays are celebrated, and have common expectations of behavior, food and customs, life seems easier. Today many more families are intercultural,… Read More