“Are you trying?,” “How many children do you want?” So often it seems the topic of having children is anything but private. However, while we readily ask questions about starting a family, there seems to be a far less open discussion of the difficulties couples encounter along the way. Many couples can experience a sense…
What a 12-year-old prodigy can teach us
Music is integral to the human condition. A family member shared this recent ’60 minutes’ piece with me about a 12-year-old girl named Alma Deutscher who ‘speaks Mozart.’ I often talk with my clients about listening to the music and not the lyrics (i.e. paying attention to the emotions and not the content), but this young…
Fertility and Couples: An overview
“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage.” As the old school-yard rhyme indicates, having biological children is a natural step for many heterosexual couples to take at a certain stage of their relationship. Of course, it is not always that simple. As many as 1 in 4 couples…
Should we limit screen time for adults too? How?
Technology is ubiquitous in our lives today and yet many of us often lament that it can seem to impede us as much as it helps us. Nowhere is this phenomenon more true than with our phones. These miraculous little computers-in-our-pockets help us to do so many things and have become indispensible to us. I…