pride Featured A New Gay Pride My father, a WWII veteran, had no capacity to broaden his consciousness to incorporate the idea that his eldest Jewish son was probably a homosexual. Perhaps one reason behind Leonard’s “homosexual panic,” it has been speculated now many years after his death, was that his own sexuality may not
gay pride Featured Queer Therapy Donning Rainbow Glasses to Reclaim the Therapist Within In Honor of Pride Month 2022 By Douglas Sadownick This delightful middle-aged gay male couple had just waited too long to do any work on themselves to they had reverted to the bickering they learned from their parents. I could have educated them about couple’s therapy icon John Gottman’
pride Featured Gay Pride: Part One 1977. The beginning of a gay pride story. My acceptance into Columbia College was ...
Improving Intimate Partnerships: Healing the Split Between Conscious and Unconscious Like a Pro: Ten Basic Steps In late June, I am heading to France for my first trip to Paris in twenty years, which inspired me to brush up on mon français. I happened to come across the YouTube channel of a great French teacher, Alexa, and recommend her website, “Learn French with Alexa,” for anyone
Mothers Day Featured A Few Thoughts Post-Mother’s Day: We could mark days like Mother’s Day taking a cue from the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” movie where the “mother” and “daughter” play at least three different roles: (1) one role is traditional and biological—and somewhat homophobic.
chakra healing “Chakra Healing: A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Healing Techniques that Balance the Chakras,” by Margarita Alcantara Alcantara Acupuncture & Healing Arts Even though I hail from The Bronx, and was subjected to a dialectical academic education in Ivy League, and to become a professional psychologist, I have opened my eyes to the power of what are called “The Chakras.”
Ask Dr.Doug Featured Everything Everywhere All at Once: NYC with My Mom and My Homie Okay, so I went home to see my mother in The Bristal Assisted Living in Lynnwood, Long Island, bringing Matzah, and on my birthday no less! But this VERY JEWISH WOMAN of all-but-near 92-years-of-age had by now lost her religion--and, also, it seemed, her neurosis.
passover Featured Honoring Passover as a Feast of Freedom for All Souls “Holy force of blessing…your presence fills creation..who has intermixed spring with tears…as we remember our own birth and suffering…let us bless the flow of life…that revives us, sustains us, and brings us to this time”—from the feminist Haggadah authored by Doug and the late-Sandra
Physical Fitness Featured Why Is Working Out Central to Psychological Well-Being? My father wasn’t a bad guy. Sure, “Lenny” was a very macho kind of Jew, a rare breed, but he helped liberate the camps during WWII. He grew up dirt poor in NYC during the Great Depression, and he had to drop out of high school to help support
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Ask Dr.Doug Featured What I Hope to Share! This scholar, therapist, author, professor, activist open-hearted Boy-from-the-Bronx has a lot to share with people of all walks of life, gay, straight, and all the variations in between, and all the colors that comprise the human family. My aim here is to retrieve precious, secret knowledge locked away in the
