by Lisa Kohn | Nov 28, 2016 | My Story
We sat around the two Thanksgiving tables; we no longer fit around one. It’s my (tiny) immediate family plus my husband’s immediate (plus some) family, who, perhaps needless to say, have all become my immediate family as well. I’m never sure who will start the process...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 24, 2016 | Resilience
It’s been a tough time. And as much as that sucks, that’s okay. That is what is. What I’ve learned – what I know – is that I have to find the way to get up and get going, and the best way for me to do that is to find a thought that feels a little better. Whether I’m...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 21, 2016 | Hope and Amazement
“I don’t know,” my therapist said to me in one of my last sessions from this time of working with her, “I don’t know how you were so functional when you first showed up in my office.” Shout it from the mountaintops; hide it so that no one knows. That is the dichotomy...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 16, 2016 | Current Events
A friend texted me today. “Everything ok?” she asked. “No posts for a few days and I got worried for a minute I fell off your list.” I just couldn’t post last week. I didn’t know what to say. I don’t want to get political, but I was hit hard by this election. I won’t...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 6, 2016 | Recovery
I must have heard this somewhere. I don’t remember where. And yet, it’s a beautiful reminder. For us all. I look through the journals with daily readings my daughter has made for me. More of them than I care to admit remind me to slow down and know that enough is...