• It’s Hard to Live with Someone Who Lacks Empathy

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • February 20, 2015
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    Empathy is defined as the "intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another" (dic.com). Empathy is an important part of the process in bonding. When two people can imagine how the other person feels it leads to support and connectedness. Often it is men… Continue Reading

  • Feeling Lost ? How to Carve a Niche for yourself in the World

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • June 30, 2014
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    Many people arrive in my office and describe themselves as lost. Women whose kids have grown, men who decide to leave a criminal lifestyle behind, partners who allowed someone else to define the primary relationship, those who have always taken the easy way out or those with huge college debt… Continue Reading

  • Feeling Disconnected @ the Holiday Time of Connections

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • December 21, 2012
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    Loneliness Is a place that I know well It's the distance between us And the space inside ourselves lyrics by Annie Lennox in her song Loneliness Holidays are about gatherings & connectedness. It's very hard for the buckets of people who feel lonely during all the festivities. Whether it's a… Continue Reading

  • We All Want to be Understood

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • April 20, 2011
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    "All of us are caught up in what Brooks calls 'the loneliness loop.' What drives us ultimately, is the need to feel understood by others."  3/7/11 Newsweek article on David Brooks & his new book The Social Animal Sometimes the impossibility of communicating accurately is overwhelming. Feeling understood is basic… Continue Reading

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