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The Importance of Reaching for Hope: Findings

By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP

Reflections of the importance of hope are found in religion, philosophy, literature and current inspirational thinking.

  • God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us in the dreariest and most dreaded moments can see a possibility of hope.
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The Universal Language – The Gift of Laughter

By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP

Laughter spans age, gender, language and culture. We make each other laugh and we emotionally respond to laughter in others. As humans we are one of a few species that laughs and we laugh from the time we are babies.

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The Family Narrative: From a Legacy of Trauma to A Legacy of Hope

By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP

A traumatic event experienced by one or all members of a family, impacts the entire family system. Be it the violent loss of a child, the devastation from natural disaster,

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Out of Sight-Out of Mind: The Reality of Disenfranchised Grief

By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP

One of the most powerful and frightening articles I read this summer was Leslie Jamison’s Opinion piece, “Rape, Race and the Jogger”. She starts by reminding us that this summer three female joggers,

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