beauty in the everyday

Unconventional Love

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I can barely say this out loud, but I’m in love with my plant. I love many plants, but this one is special. Our relationship is intense– this plant pines when I’m not home, and would die without me. Can you see how close we are to each other?

NEW BOOK: What is it like to be a therapist?

 

Defining Moments For Therapists

 

If therapy is a relational process, it takes a person on the therapist’s end. The goal of the project is to capture the therapist’s evolving sense of self as it is shaped by our experiences as active participants in a creative interaction.

The essays in this book are first-person accounts, by eleven therapists, of some “Aha!” moments when they got to understand themselves better, and to understand better why they do what they do.

Publication date: April 18, 2013

 

The book will be available for sale: - as a regular book, on Amazon,… Continue reading →

I Don’t Forget to Wear My Red Dress; He Always Brings Me Flowers

Thirty-three Valentine’s Days and 32 anniversaries later, my marriage continues to blossom. No, it hasn’t been all roses, but he kept the flowers coming every Friday anyway.

 

I Don’t Forget to Wear My Red Dress; He Always Brings Me Flowers

Meet the therapist at Good Therapy

Meet the therapist

Good therapy interviews Lynn Somerstein.

 

Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person | Video on TED.com

Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person | Video on TED.com. See this amazing, moving and sometimes funny video of an indomitable woman of spirit, whose Olympic dreams were ruined by a truck.

Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love

This video is about Jeffrey Wright, a loving and creative physics teacher, and how he cares for his son Adam Wright, who has Joubert syndrome. Watch Wright’s Law.

Birds of Paradise Project.

Birds of Paradise is unusually beautiful – very strange and beautiful birds, dance, display, and even look like they are praying.

11 Ways to Establish Your Home Yoga Practice

 

 

By Dr. Lynn Anjali Somerstein, RYT

 

What’s better- yoga at home or in class? I think they both work. It’s lovely to follow the teacher’s sequences and be with your yoga friends—but an integral part of developing understanding of yourself and of yoga  is establishing a home practice, tailor made for you and easily available, at home or away. All you need is motivation–that’s the hard part.

I love yoga, and if I was a really inspired yogini, instead of my occasionally reluctant self, I would always be motivated to practice asana, meditation and pranayama, but I… Continue reading →

Black Tie Beach 2012 – YouTube

Black Tie Beach 2012 – YouTube.  Formal wear to the beach improv. Very fun and good music too!

Anything is Possible – by www.haroldsplanet.com – YouTube

Anything is Possible – by www.haroldsplanet.com – YouTube.

See Dr. Lynn Somerstein

Lynn Somerstein, Phd, RYT, practices psychotherapy and Yoga in New York's Upper Eastside

Phone: 917 447-3924 or email DrLynn@LynnSomerstein.com if you have any questions or would like to make an appointment for counseling.

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See how therapists change in the new book, Defining Moments for Therapists. edited by Serge Prengel and Lynn Somerstein. Order a copy now in soft cover or ebook format, or learn more about the book and download it for free in PDF format.

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