"Free Conversation Hour" Welcome! Please join Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein for a "Free Conversation Hour" about how to get yourself spirtually stimulated. She will share some of her concepts about the "ENCHANTED SELF," and in the process you will get to share some of your stories as well. "Free Conversation Hour" To be held July […]
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Dear Friends, I don’t know if you realize that there is an ENCHANTED SELF necklace to wear and to remind yourself that you are an enchanted self. There is! I am so eager to get women to wear the necklace and to feel special about themselves while passing the word along about how each woman […]
Gateway Five: Coming Home or Going Away, Finding Tribes in Which to Belong – Part Two of Two
In first part we discussed how critical it is to belong to groups as well as how to find groups that meet our needs. In this section we will look at a Case Vignette to give you a good example of how one woman found a group that she needed. We will also explore a […]
Gateway Five: Coming Home or Going Away, Finding Tribes in Which to Belong – Part One
All of us find ourselves automatically belonging to certain groups. There’s the family we’re born into, the family we may have created through marriage, and all sorts of other groups going on in our lives: PTA groups, office colleagues and church affiliations, etc. Continue reading, please click here Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend […]
Hi again from Dr. Barbara Holstein
This is a great place to communicate. I am a Positive Psychologist with several self-help books as well as an academic book in my field. My first book, THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy really got me going. This was my brainchild of early mid-life-based on interviewing women not in my practice and discovering an […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
If one thing doesn’t work – something else will… Life is so funny! This quote is from my wonderful friend and colleague Coach Karin! She just interviewed me for her telelvision show in Manhattan that will air in July- I’ll get back with more details! Barbara Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook […]
Gateway Four: Replenishment – Truly Coming Home to Our Enchanted Self
Replenishment, joy, pleasure and delight are all parts of truly coming home to our Enchanted Selves. If any gateway is the pivotal gateway for a woman, it is this gateway. This is the gateway that we must return to above all others, as frequently as possible. It is where we fuel up, where we energize. […]
Inspirational Remarks
Chofetz Chaim, a wonderful Jewish teacher, told others that he initially wanted to change the world, but found he couldn’t. Then he wanted to change his family, but he couldn’t. Finally he realized that he could only work on himself! And he did. He spent years studying the negative effects of gossip and hurtful talk […]