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Breaking: My Second Book Drops This September! You Can Pre-Order It Now
I bet you are asking yourselves: Doorknob bombshells? Doorknob bombshells in therapy? What is that?
A doorknob bombshell, also known as a doorknob moment, is a clinical phenomenon that occurs in a wide variety of settings. That’s when a patient drops distressing personal information critical to the treatment on their way out the door, hand on the doorknob, and then breaks down.
What should a caring clinician do when a patient does that? It’s a near universal dilemma for clinicians.
Look Out! I'm a National Award Winner!
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists: Organization for writers of serial essay, including columnists and bloggers, in any medium awarded me a third place in the General Interest: Online category of their 2022 contest. I am so delighted!
When I submitted two 2021 posts from this blog, I wasn’t fully aware of the level of competition.
What I Learned from Giving my Ice Breaker Speech to my Local Toastmasters Club
Finally, after practicing for days giving my speech from memory—before my friend Joan; between clients; while on hold as my tech genius figured out what was wrong with my office computer; at home cooking dinner and after, doing the dishes; as I applied lipstick in the rearview mirror, and drove to the public library where the Toastmasters meeting was happening—finally, I was standing before the camera (it was a hybrid meeting) and my fellow Toastmasters, ready (as I’d ever be) to give my speech.
The Pager Incident
Maybe you think that all it takes to be a great therapist is the ability to nod calmly while saying, “Tell me how you feel about that.” Let me pop that sweet fantasy!
Congress--House AND Senate-- Votes Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Juneteenth—celebrated on June 19th by most Black Americans—commemorates the legal end of slavery in Texas on June 19th, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863.
In honor of Juneteenth, I’m reposting the following essay.
How I Challenged a Privileged White Male Friend’s Racism The hardest part? First, I had to listen to him.