Posts By Janet Hoffman
A Public Health Disgrace: Why Women Die from Heart Attacks Over Twice as Often as Men
With startling statistics about women and heart disease at my fingertips, I turned to Dr. Abraham Bornstein, an educator, Board-Certified Cardiologist and Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine […]
All Moms are Working Moms
I will start this article with the admission that I’m not a mother myself, though I have been deeply and intensely personally involved, both time-wise and emotionally, in taking care […]
Ringing in the New Year with Silence
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” Sorry, Oscar, I disagree. There is an account and […]
Diminishing Grief and Trauma: An Interview on TM and Psychotherapy
We’re pleased to introduce our blog readers to Debbie Augenthaler, a New York City psychotherapist who specializes in trauma, grief, and loss. She is an author and speaker who has […]
Physicist Amanda Weltman: Using Knowledge for Good
Born in Massachusetts and raised in South Africa, Amanda Weltman completed a distinguished undergraduate career at the University of Cape Town and then pursued her graduate education at Columbia University […]
Enlightened Risk Management in Every Institution of Society
On October 9th, we published a post on our blog titled Why Hospitals Should Pay for Nurses to Learn TM. It was a cogent piece showing there is no downside […]
Successful Self-Reinvention: The Award-Winning Susan Daniels
There’s no reason to lay down on the couch and veg out following a major illness or after retirement. It’s a time during which a creative, energetic woman can regroup […]
I Have Something Important to Share
I’m sitting in front of my laptop thinking of the girls and women in my life—five generations of girls and women—and also of all those I don’t know personally but […]
The Best Summer Vacation, Twice a Day
The most famous song about Summer, written by George Gershwin for the famous Broadway musical Porgy and Bess, includes the lyrics “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” Every year, we […]
From Taiwan to Iowa: Dr. Ayako Huang
I recently met Dr. Ayako Huang. I was so impressed by her joyful brightness, her calm, her purposefulness and her intelligence, that I asked for an interview on her life […]