As we are watching the varied news reports about mass shootings that are so prevalent, I know many of us are struggling to find an explanation and answers. At best all that surrounds this set of issues is very complex. The arguments are numerous including our second amendment rights, gun legislation, mental health program expansion, […]

Neuroscience research tells us we are social animals. Our relationships nurture and even sustain our lives. They provide comfort, meaning, motivation to connect, share, enjoy and with a few very special relationships, to experience deep love. When people have few or even no significant relationships, they can be extremely depressed, withdrawn, unmotivated, their physical as […]

In my last two blogs I invited my readers to consider some of the properties and principles of love, especially how the pandemic has impacted our experiences of love given all the many anxieties and stresses we’ve been experiencing. We have needed to feel loved and be able to give love more than ever during […]

Recently a friend shared an article entitled Einstein Letter to His Daughter on the Universal Force of Love. The article is very touching and one I think readers might enjoy too. And this sparked for me many questions about love: what is it, when and how is it experienced, why do we crave being in […]

Can you recall a recent mistake you made? How did it make you feel? Guilty? Incompetent? Ashamed? I have a very dear friend who struggled after he hired someone for a job in his newly-formed organization and discovered within the first two weeks that this person was not meeting expectations and clearly was not somebody […]

I have many high school memories of dealing with panic attacks that I now realize were in part the result of my being an empath. I would sit in my classes, overwhelmed by the realization that each person had their own inner thoughts, feelings and sensations and it was almost like a magnetic pull to […]

Most of us continue to be acutely aware of how this ongoing pandemic is impacting us emotionally and relationally. We can feel discouraged, frustrated, and disappointed that we haven’t yet come to the end of it, with no end in sight. We can feel depressed and unmotivated. Relationally, while we do have the ability to […]

As we say goodbye to 2021, we can reflect on what we celebrated about the holidays and also what disappointed us. For some, especially children, they had hopes and wishes to receive certain gifts that parents may not have been able to afford or felt were inappropriate or unnecessary. Knowing how some children are often […]

At Lakeside’s four schools we are very engaged in helping students regulate their brains as a way to help them control their emotional responses and be better able to learn. Several years ago we began to bring facility dogs into our schools to provide emotional support to our students. The results have been amazing. In […]