spirituality

STUCK

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/stuck-changing-unhealthy-behavior-0411134

As in the case of Don Draper from TV’s “Mad Men,” getting stuck in unhealthy patterns of behavior can make it very difficult to see clearly and find your way out. Therapy can help.

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 →

Meet the therapist at Good Therapy

Meet the therapist

Good therapy interviews Lynn Somerstein.

 

Tragedy in Newton

How can we explain the horrific events in Newton, and so many others tragedies like them? This is what Mr. Rogers says: ‎”When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.” — Mister Rogers  Let’s work together to make gun control a… Continue reading →

Statistics about Yoga Therapy | LinkedIn

Statistics about Yoga Therapy | LinkedIn.

Take a look- this is the LinkedIn group that I started a year or so ago to promote free and open discussion.

Bystanders

“When we are a witness to wrongdoing, we have a choice to make about the role we will play: we can remain a bystander, or we can find a way to use our power to act as a helper.” Bystanders: if a tree falls. . .

September 11

The day the world fell down, when planes turned into guided missiles and people became dust, I walked dazed from my office to hear people talk in the street and try to follow the news. No one could understand the incomprehensible at first.

Then I called my husband and children and made sure they were all right. My daughter in law was in downtown New York, trying to get away, on a bus headed to my house, looking for safety for herself and for her soon to be born baby. She spent the evening with us, then the next day… Continue reading →

Namaste Teacher’s Newsletter. Lynn Anjali Somerstein writes about her life in yoga.

Volume 16, Issue 9 – September 2012

 

I first heard about Yoga in 1960, when I was browsing in the local library one summer and saw a strange book with the picture of a beguiling man, Yogacharya Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar, on the cover. I began studying Yoga using that book. I remember the joy I felt learning urdhva dhanurasana, which I practiced on my mother’s living room floor, right in front of a monstrous TV. I needed a teacher, but there were no Yoga studios in Bayside, Queens, at that time.

In 1968 I moved to Manhattan, where I… Continue reading →

The Mind Business

The Mind Business  Yoga, meditation, ‘mindfulness’ – why some of the west’s biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality

25% of large US companies have now launched ‘stress-reduction’ initiatives–

Shamanic Societies

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions…” | elephant journal.

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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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