Doctors with empathy

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Six months ago my son’s father-in-law suffered a massive heart attack requiring emergency intervention and four stents. Feeling short of breath a few weeks ago, he visited his Cardiologist and, within three days, had an urgent quadruple bypass. This man has a zest for life that I have personally never seen in another person. I [...]

Wedding Bliss and Grade 5 Anxiety

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Our oldest son, Ilan, got married last week. And our ten year old daughter, Gabi, began her first day in grade 5 today. Having children spread over 16 years of age provides for an interesting existence. Ilan (26) married Carrie, now his beautiful wife. It’s very hard to put into words the feeling of that [...]

Podcast Episode #002: The Role of Stories in Emotional Intelligence

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

In this episode: the role of stories in teaching emotional intelligence – how stories can be used, advice on choosing books, sharing childhood stories, and more. I also speak about the techniques I applied in my book “Boom… Boom… Boom…” —

Answering Your Questions – July 2, 2009

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I’m answering your questions again! The questions I answer in this episode are: Why is it important to be emotionally intelligent? My children seem to be happy and content. Should I even bother trying to raise their emotional intelligence? Will this create problems? My daughter was diagnosed with anxiety disorder. How should I approach this? [...]