Blog | Keith Weinstein MFT

Review of The Tao of Trauma by Alaine D. Duncan

Healing trauma and fragmentation and smoothly riding the waves of stress are a central challenge for human beings. Finding a path to healing our own trauma is necessary work in cultivating wholeness: a secure, open and passionately engaged heart and mind the...

A Heart With Two Wings

There is an image from the Middle East of a heart flying with two wings. It represents two virtues that we need in order to fly in life. The two wings are the ability to face the truth and the ability to have compassion when we do so. A heart that soars through life...

Meditation and Psychotherapy

As a psychotherapist I advocate people taking up meditation. Obviously, it’s not for everyone but if people understood more of its benefits, more people would do it. You may already know that it’s good for managing stress, insomnia and fighting off colds and the flu....

The Moon, Earthshine and the Empathic Field of Resonance

As a psychotherapist I do a lot of listening. I listen to the words of my clients and the deeper longings they convey, the unmet needs, the hurt and shame, the strength, the joy, and the veiled potential for a more fulfilled life. And also I notice the breath of my...

The Invitation

One could say that the primary invitation of therapy is to become your own best friend. Or good parent. To do this you have to be observing yourself as you go through the moments of your day, not constantly but several times a day, enough to be aware of your mood and paying attention to important patterns, themes and emotions that cry out to be noticed.