by admin on February 6, 2010
I am saying goodbye to my office in Washington, DC at Brookland Pastoral Center with some regrets and several fond memories. I like the place and its where I originally launched my practice. I recommend potential clients in Washington, DC check out their remaining practitioners on their website. Jonathan Kirkendall and Maura Kristof also used to be co-workers there and are excellent therapists.
I’ve since moved to Baltimore and found that my downtown Baltimore location at the Rotunda has been my busiest location. It just makes sense to close shop in Washington, DC and expand in Baltimore.
But, no more hours are available for rent at my Rotunda location… so…
Starting March 1st I have a new location in Mt. Washington Village just a few miles from the Rotunda, right off of I-83, and across the street from Light Rail. I am now (as of March) located at 5710 Newbury Street on the 2nd floor. Please come check out my new space. It’s a cheery yellow with new carpeting, lots of fanciful furnishings from my DC location, and some comfy leather couches I just picked up.
How I got the couches up the staircase and through the doorways I will never know…
– Michael
by admin on February 6, 2010
I suspect many blogs are being updated for the first time in a long while today in the Northeast as many of us are sitting at home in a 24″-30″ snow storm — grateful for Internet access, electricity, and heat.
I talked with one of my near neighbors in Baltimore, naturopathic doctor Janine Martin, a few weeks ago about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lightboxes. She mentioned that they may in fact be useful for yet another purpose — recovery from stress. Apparently stress can damage the body’s natural sleep cycle rhythms. Lightboxes may be useful in resetting these rhythms in order to restore the proper sleep cycle. Critical if you are trying to rest-up after or keep up with stressful events.
This morning I opened an old issue The Week Magazine (January 15th — I have time today…) and saw that their “Health Scare of the Week” was about the number of near-sighted people rising 66% since the 1970s. They cited epidemiologist Susan Vitale as saying that some evidence suggests spending too much time indoors during childhood “sends a signal to the eye to stop growing”.
I don’t want to read too much into this, but perhaps the use of full spectrum lighting indoors is not too bad of an idea for many reasons.
– Michael
