I can't think of another figure on television who's done more to encourage us as a culture to rise to the highest common denominator.

MacNeil and Lehrer come to mind, but they began as a team and their purview was and is limited to news, whereas Winfrey's platform is broader...

This is not for you if you're one of those people who thinks about the upcoming holidays with your family and considers how very lucky you are to have each other.

This is for the people who think of the holidays with their families and consider opiates.

Aahhh family.

Just...

So let's say it's a random weekday morning and you're getting ready for your day while the morning news is on. Your ears perk up when you hear a story on the "Top Ten Companies" to work for if you're a mother or pregnant; and you think to yourself, "This...

This summer one of my clients and one of my girlfriends gave birth. As they approached their due dates they described the same familiar upset other girlfriends and women in my practice had reported at the end of their pregnancies.

Well meaning women -- family members, girlfriends, colleagues or strangers...

Re: the Kelly Clarkson SELF cover kerfuffle.

Before I address SELF, to be fair, I want to refer to Lauren Collins' article from the May 12, 2008 issue of The New Yorker entitled, "Pixel Prefect" because it has stayed with me since I read it.

In it Collins...

Recently, I attended a discussion about HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Photojournalist Kristen Ashburn, who spent seven years chronicling the devastating impact of the disease in Malawi, shared photos from her book I Am Because We Are. Her work is a powerful call to action and a reminder that...

Does anyone else feel sad that the longstanding DKNY mural at Houston and Broadway is now gone?

Since September 11th I've been hoping they were going to leave it there forever.

I was always fond of that mural as a symbol of a woman not only making it, but soaring...

We as mothers are putting our own fears ahead of our daughters' well being, and we have to confront this crisis of confidence in order to offer our girls more grounding in sexual vitality than we were given by our own mothers.

In not giving them the sexual information they...

As a therapist who works with women and men going through fertility treatments, and as a woman who went through them myself for ten years, I'm really pleased to announce the arrival of FertilityAuthority.com.

It can be an incredibly stressful and lonely experience to strive for a baby....

As a celebratory bookend to what Huffington Post readers wrote when I gave them my blog in October to post why they would vote for Obama, I now give you my blog to write about your experience of this historic inauguration.

Instead of posting a comment to...

In the past week, pole dancing classes have been covered by both Oprah and The Doctors in segments touting this activity's ability to help women unleash their sexual/sensual side.

I have to confess that when I think of all the ways women can embrace their sexual nature, spinning and...

There's always a spike in mother/daughter material in my practice every year at this time when adult daughters are ready to pull their hair out because their mothers have hurt them over the holidays.

A season unto itself, the barreling intensity around food and body image starts with the...

If you have the misfortune to be heterosexual, as many of us do, you have enough on your plate just trying to bridge the divide on how differently men and women go about all things sexual. Women don't need the extra headache of watching their backs with their own gender....

Both hope and fear are great motivators, and they both have the capacity to promote growth in us, but hope creates space in the mind and heart. Fear, more often than not, restricts it.

Just think of how you feel in your own body when you're afraid - you tense...

To everyone who submitted a blog sharing why you'll vote for Obama: You blew me away. Thank you to each of you.

Here are the ten that moved me the most, listed in the order in which they were posted:

Citizenoftheworld
Susie 1776
CBOXX
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As McCain and Obama approach the finish line, I give you my blog to write why you'll vote for Obama.

Instead of posting a comment to my writing as you usually would, simply write your own thoughts on Obama and submit them. As the comments come...

Something special happened in my community last weekend, and I'm posting this as an invitation for other communities out there to consider doing something similar.

Over an earlier dinner, some men and women had been discussing the truly surreal selection and ascendance of Sarah Palin, when cinematographer, Philippe Cheng, said...

I've never felt more female than the day I gave birth to my daughter. And I have never felt more human than the day I stood with my neighbors and watched the Twin Towers across the street from our homes burn and fall.

I never thought I would be in...

It's heart wrenching to me that in this day and age, the human rights eloquence of a woman's right to choose still isn't fully embraced by the very gender it serves.

The right to choose is so fundamentally simple in its respect of each person's ability to protect and live...

August 3rd's New York Magazine cover story by Jonathan Van Meter was on "The NEW New Face" women are buying from their plastic surgeons and dermatologists.

His article highlights the surreal visuals we now associate with youth and beauty, and the procedures women undergo...