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LESLIE M. FAERSTEIN, ED.D, LCSW
Wise conversations on women and aging.
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Self-Talk To Our Beloved Bodies: The Reveler Blog
Have you ever thought about the way you’ve been trash talking your body for decades? Do you look in the mirror and say horrible things to...
Leslie M. Faerstein
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Therapists: Be A Human Soul...
“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.” Carl Jung I only recently...
Sep 9, 2022
INERTIA
In January 2020 I joined a group of 13 women from 5 different states for a Beta experiment with Twisting The Plot called “12 in 12”. This...
Feb 19, 2022
Self-Talk To Our Beloved Bodies: The Reveler Blog
Have you ever thought about the way you’ve been trash talking your body for decades? Do you look in the mirror and say horrible things to...
Nov 14, 2021
Body Image As We Age: Why Aren't We Kinder To Ourselves?
I’d love to think I’m an evolved adult woman. And in many ways, I’ve learned a lot over my 64 years and have made some healthy...
Apr 4, 2021
To Dye or Not to Dye?
This is a question that comes up regularly — both before and during Covid-19. Covid somehow makes the question more compelling since...
Sep 29, 2020
“If We Talked to Our Friends the Way We Talk to our Bodies, We’d Have No Friends”- Marcia Hutchinson
Leslie M. Faerstein, Ed.D., LCSW Have you ever thought about how you’ve been trash talking your body for decades? Do you look in the...
Aug 26, 2020
70 Is Just A Number. Or Is It?
I turned 70 the other day. I’ve been gearing up for this for over a year – letting people know how old I am, trying it on for size,...
Aug 5, 2020
Twist Your Body Image with Dr. Leslie Faerstein: a Twisting the Plot Podcast
Feb 25, 2020 | 40 mins Do you ever have feelings about your aging body? Do you want to have a better relationship with your knees,...
Aug 4, 2020
Our Older Selves in the Age of COVID
Reading the newspaper and listening to the news, I think about all the messages that those of us over 60 (and some of us less than 3...
Apr 18, 2020
All In The Family Part 4: My Daughter
Becky and me at my wedding, March 2013 And finally – the fourth generation of women: my daughter, Becky. The generation that breaks...
Dec 3, 2018
All In The Family Part 3: Me
Sadie, Eleanor, Leslie, Becky (Junior Bridesmaid) November 1990 “Women are trying to change the shape of their lives by changing the...
Oct 22, 2018
All In The Family Part 2: My Mother
Mother, Grandmother, Daughter, Me, Father My daughter's Bat Mitzvah, May 1993 My first blog about my Grandmother escaped before I had a...
Aug 28, 2018
All In The Family
(Aunt, Me, Mother, Brother, Father, Grandmother, Grandfather at my brother's Bar Mitzvah 1965) “Women are trying to change the shape of...
Jul 23, 2018
How To Accept Our Bodies As We Age
It’s with great pleasure that my first blog is about the evening I had on May 2nd in New York City with some fabulous women, from 26...
May 4, 2018
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