Abby Rosmarin Choice For those who have decided to formally end to their marriage, there remains the question as to HOW. All divorce processes operate within...
Abby RosmarinThe Queen of Hearts Lewis Carroll's Queen of Hearts has a very efficient way to deal with any distress. Her solution is always the same: Off with their...
Abby RosmarinThe Problem Sometimes, people start their work with me knowing that they have a problem but have not fit all the pieces together. It feels like the...
Abby Rosmarinpause ............ before responding (something unexpected might emerge) Challenging times continue. We are in a global high anxiety state and that has created some painful tension in relationships and...
Abby RosmarinOrientation Towards ConflictA problem occurs between you and someone you know well. Your first instinct is to avoid talking about it, telling yourself that it will...
Abby RosmarinAll’s Well That Ends WellOften, only in hindsight can we see the beginning. As we take stock of a year that has just passed and the vicissitudes of fortunes that...
Abby RosmarinChange —— Let it Go ? ! ? !No matter how accomplished we are, how planned our life has been, how generous or kind we are, at some point we will have to address...
Abby RosmarinThe Burghers of Calais: Interest Based NegotiationsRodin's The Burghers of Calais. The dramatic and heart wrenching embodiment of suffering and resignation. Before this moment captured by...
Abby RosmarinParenting CoordinationParenting coordination can help parents make necessary parenting decisions. A parenting coordinator works with parents to: 1. Create...
Abby RosmarinMediation: Mutual Problem SolvingCooperative behavior and the ability to read intentions of other people are increasingly believed by social psychologists, I think, to be...
Abby RosmarinWhat’s love got to do with it?The more I am confounded by life, the more I try to rely on Eric Fromm’s words: “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the...
Abby RosmarinLook Beyond BordersI recently watched this incredible short film, Look Beyond Borders, that recorded people looking into another’s eyes based on the premise...
Abby RosmarinForgiveness“Forgiveness is what has let us live again” remarked a young Xhosa man named Koyisha with pride as he showed one type of living...
Abby RosmarinUnderstandingA new year and a time to recommit. I reflect on the work of Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinician, professor of bioethics, and author of How We...
Abby RosmarinParenting PlansA recent NY times opinion, How Divorced Parents Lost Their Rights, the author indicated that “as compared litigation and mediation, six...
Abby RosmarinFamily Support of a Discharge PlanHospital discharge plans can be compromised because of lack of family support. This can create the condition for multiple admissions and...
Abby RosmarinHappiness is LoveSeventy five years in the making, the longitudinal study of 268 male Harvard undergraduates, called the Grant Study of Adult Development...
Abby RosmarinGenerosityA recent NYT Magazine Cover article, Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? discusses the work of Adam Grant, whose work focuses on...
Abby RosmarinUnconscious BiasResearch has confirmed what many of us may already know: we are far better at spotting bias in others than in ourselves. While we may...
Abby RosmarinSelf“He conquers who conquers himself” counseled 70 year old Rodriquez the other night as he began his set. Rodriquez, the singer/song writer...