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Much Ado About Whoopi: A Jewish clinical social worker gives her take on host’s comment
Ironically, it was exactly 3 years ago when a 35-year-old yearbook photo surfaced of (then) Governor Ralph Northam in blackface. To make...

elainesbelson
Feb 5, 20223 min read
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Simone Biles: Re-modeling Mental Health and Female Self-Esteem
Listening to Simone Biles at Tuesday’s press conference, I was impressed by how comfortable she appeared with her decision. Let’s be...

elainesbelson
Jul 29, 20214 min read
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The Age of Ageism
Written May 2021 Senator Diane Feinstein received a lot of criticism yesterday for calling the hypothetical retirement of Supreme Court...

elainesbelson
May 7, 20213 min read
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Police Brutality and the Art of De-Escalation
de•es•ca•late [de-es-kuh-leyt] verb (with or without object), to decrease in intensity, magnitude, etc. As a Social Work Officer at Fort...

elainesbelson
Jun 17, 20205 min read
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Everyone Needs Psychotherapy
It truly pains me to watch you everyday make self-defeating decisions, knowing how avoidable they are. What if I told you that you don’t...

elainesbelson
Apr 6, 20203 min read
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What an American Superhero Looks Like
At 5yo, I vividly recall sitting on the floor in front of our living room TV watching Spiderman. I can still recite the theme song. And...

elainesbelson
Jul 25, 20192 min read
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A Letter to Mitch
Dear Mitch, I’m not Black. I don’t know how it feels to be Black. But I am Jewish. And no matter how much time elapses between past and...

elainesbelson
Jun 29, 20192 min read
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We’re no different. Neither are they.
There was a time I thought Americans were above this. That we were special. I thought what happened in WWII Germany could never happen...

elainesbelson
Jun 18, 20193 min read
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