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You Never Know What Tomorrow Brings
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Throughout my life, my father used to utter these wise words, “You never know what tomorrow brings,” as his way of honoring the present moment. Although he wouldn’t quite frame it that way, since he was a worrier at times who projected into the future what could go wrong as a way of warding it…
How’s Your HQ?
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
As I was planning on writing this blog entry, my friend Joanna Chodorowska posed a question: How’s Your HQ? (Hug Quality) I responded that she knew how mine was, since I offer FREE HUGS any and everywhere I can. I know that Joanna can answer in the affirmative as well, since she too, is a…
Spiritual Abuse
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Recently I sat with a client in my practice who shared that she grew up in a fundamentalist church in which she was told that suffering was the way to experience God. Her life experience included physical and sexual abuse. Her child-mind internalized that God and pain were intertwined and now in her 50’s, she…
I Am Especially Fond of You: Movie Review: The Shack
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I am an interfaith minister who was raised Jewish and was taught that God watches over us orchestrating outcomes and is a Source and Force to whom we pray, hoping for a particular outcome. I learned about Christianity from friends who grew up in that faith, read the New Testament in high school, questioned who the…
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