Love Addiction: When the Heart Keeps Choosing the Same Story

Let’s get to understand love addiction — the pull toward emotionally unavailable men, the fear of abandonment, and the repeating cycle of almost-love. Learn how somatic and EMDR therapy in NYC can help you heal love addiction and find real, lasting connection.

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The Smooth Talker: On Love, Boundaries, and the Lives We Hold as Therapists

Some people captivate a room — and leave echoes long after they’re gone.
When I met the man I’d only known through a client’s story, I was reminded how deeply we live inside other people’s worlds.
A reflection on what it means to hold love, loss, and humanity with presence and grace.

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Just Be Sad With Me: A Story About Love & the Courage to Let Go

She looked up at me for the first time in twelve minutes.
Her heart was breaking, but something in the silence began to shift — a moment of connection, of permission to simply be sad.
This story from the therapy room explores what happens when we stop trying to fix heartbreak and instead meet it with presence, attachment healing, and the gentle wisdom of somatic therapy in NYC.

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How to Survive the Pain of Heartbreak (When Your Whole Body Hurts)

When love ends, the pain isn’t just emotional — it’s physical. Your chest tightens, your breath shortens, and your body forgets how to rest.
In this reflection, Esther Goldstein, LCSW, shares what’s really happening in your nervous system and how somatic therapy and attachment healing can help you survive heartbreak with compassion instead of collapse.
If you’ve ever whispered “I can’t do this” in the dark — this is for you.

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Stonewalling - And No, You’re Not Going “Crazy”.

When someone you love goes silent, your whole body feels it.
This piece unpacks the quiet heartbreak of stonewalling—why it makes you question your sanity, how your nervous system is trying to protect you, and what healing looks like through somatic therapy in NYC.


Learn to turn confusion into clarity, and silence into safety.

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The 6 Best Somatic Therapy Practices in NYC (What Actually Helps Bodies Heal)

Somatic therapy is the tool that has allowed thousands to heal in a way that talk therapy has not. I’ve taken the 6 best somatic practices and shared them with you here. Go ahead and read them and avail yourself of these - to improve your emotional and mental health.

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