PLAY IT AGAIN SAM: On the compulsion to repeat.

March 19, 2012

There is a Buddhist belief that people come into our life so that we may learn something and/or work through something that we need to resolve before we can move on.  Thus everyone in our lives is a potential teacher, involving us in a relationship with the very thing that we have to work out. […]

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THE HEART OF THE MATTER: On Love.

February 13, 2012

OK, here comes the last in a series of holidays that tortures many people – Valentine’s Day. A completely made up holiday to celebrate love and those we love in our lives. Great if you have love, horrible if you do not. That being said, I am going to take it as an opportunity to […]

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THE BONDS THAT HOLD US: ON BLOOD AND LOVE.

January 30, 2012

This blog is collaboration. While I am writing it, it is based on something that was shared with me regarding a meaningful personal experience in psychotherapy. It was spawned from a posting on authenticity (https://www.drceccoli.com/2011/07/on-being-authentic/) in which I described the potential curative power of relationships that rely on the sharing of felt experience. This got […]

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THE NUTCRACKER – On Being A Soldier Through Life.

January 16, 2012

During the recent holiday season, on my daily commute to the office, I walked by a poster of New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker, smiling at the familiar image of rosey-cheeked wooden soldiers and the memories that it elicited of my childhood. Until one morning as I walked by, it elicited something else, the image of […]

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HE SAID, SHE DID: A return to gender stereotypes or the recipe for gender fluidity?

January 1, 2012

He leads, she follows. This is the simple truth of tango. Because of this, many have the misconception that tango is a man’s dance. But this is not true. Tango is a dance of equals – different and equal. Read on, you’ll see. Tango, the music and the dance, was borne with the European immigration […]

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Between The Word And The Deed/Entre Lo Dicho y Lo Hecho – A poem/Un poema

December 31, 2011

Poetry seems to access emotions through words. Poetry moves language beyond its daily use, shifting it beyond itself to the language of emotion. Much like music and art, poetry speaks to us in a direct and most personal way. I originally wrote this poem in Spanish, years ago. Here it is below, in both English […]

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THE LIGHT AND DARK OF HOLIDAYS – the winter of our discontent?

December 24, 2011

Twas’ the night before Christmas and all through New York, all the people were smiling and nodding and caroling about. OK not really, but people do seem to be taken by the holiday spirit, many gather by the tree in Rockefeller center looking up at it and taking photographs. Others seem busy buying presents for […]

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ON BREAKING BREAD – and the meaning of food.

December 19, 2011

Yes this post is about food. Tis’ the time for merry making and this often involves food, and also potential excess. It got me thinking about food and what it means to us. It got me thinking that the way we use and consume food says a great deal about us. It got me thinking […]

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ON SPACE AND ITS USES.

November 14, 2011

We all need space. Not just the concrete kind, but the personal kind, the kind of space that frees us to be ourselves and play with the possibilities of who we are and who we want to be. The kind of space where we can surprise ourselves, the kind of space that feels limitless and […]

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THE LANGUAGE OF AFFECT: feelings and emotions.

October 31, 2011

I have been thinking about emotions and feelings lately, and about how differently people respond to them. There are those people who treat their emotions and feelings as valuable sources of information, considering them like their third eye or ear, a personal route to felt, implicit knowledge. Such people approach their feelings with a sense […]

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