Monthly Archives: March 2026

Day 4827: Good Ideas

Posted on March 21, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Does anybody think it was a good idea for the USA and Israel to bomb Iran? Do people agree that it’s a good idea to replace the current USA administration as soon as possible?

Last night I asked a question about good ideas on social media.

In the interview about my music and my therapy groups on the Therapist Uncensored podcast, I said I get most of my good ideas in the shower. My first good ideas about song writing created the song “I Don’t Like You,” which people were listening to even before the podcast aired last Tuesday.

Do you think there are good ideas in “I Don’t Like You”?

Are there any good ideas in my other images for today?

Which of those observances are good ideas?

Here’s what I find when I search for “good ideas” on YouTube:

Thanks to everyone who has good ideas, including YOU!

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: "I Don't Like You", cats, Fuji Sushi, March 21 2026, The Blue Stones, the bombing of Iran, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Therapist Uncensored podcast, Twitter | 6 Comments

Day 4826: Laughs

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Ann Koplow

I’m always looking for laughs, especially when they are so hard to find.

That’s why I asked this question last night on Let’s Laugh Day.

Because I really need the laughs, I just borrowed that audiobook. Thanks, Kirk!

Can you find laughs in my other images for today?

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for laughs.

It’s my son, getting lots of laughs!

I also find this:

Thanks to all who are here for the laughs, including YOU.

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Aaron Fairbanks, Anjelah Johnson TED talk, cats, comedians, Laugher is Medicine, March 20 2026, Mona Lisa’s, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Daily Show Presents Earth, The Singing Therapist, Twitter and Bluesky | 6 Comments

Day 4825: Childhood memories

Posted on March 19, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Because I have good and bad memories of childhood, I’m going to let the Daily Bitch take the lead here.

Most people I know have pleasant as well as traumatic childhood memories. As a group therapist, I witness people trying to integrate their childhood memories into their adult lives — an ongoing and often difficult process.

During the interview about my music on the Therapist Uncensored podcast, I felt ambivalent about revisiting childhood memories, but I realize that makes the interview richer and more meaningful.

Do you see reflections of childhood memories in my other images for today?

Here’s what I find when I search for “childhood memories” on YouTube:

What are your thoughts and feelings about childhood memories?

Thanks to all who are here for this childhood memories post, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism, Psychotherapy | Tags: cats, integrating the past, March 19 2026, Meir Kay, monkfish with curry and vegetables, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Therapist Uncensored podcast, Twitter and Bluesky, What is your earliest childhood memory? | 6 Comments

Day 4824: Shameless

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Ann Koplow

In my interview on the popular podcast Therapist Uncensored, host Sue Marriott keeps calling me shameless, and she means it as a compliment!

If that previous sentence seems like a shameless attempt to get you to listen to the podcast interview, maybe it is.

Is it shameless for me to tell you that I talk about this blog and its readers in the interview?

Here’s one more shameless attempt to get you to listen:

https://therapistuncensored.com/episodes/how-music-heals-what-words-cant-with-ann-koplow-293/

Do you see anything shameless in my images for today?

Am I shameless for having this be today’s video?

Thanks to all who are here for this shameless post, including YOU!

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism, Psychotherapy | Tags: cats, corned beef and cabbage dinner, March 18 2026, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Therapist Uncensored podcast, Twitter, where you’d like to be | 4 Comments

Day 4823: Doing it right

Posted on March 17, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, in my Coping and Healing group, we talked about how we don’t have to be doing it right all the time to survive. If we are constantly in fear of not doing it right, we may constrict ourselves lest we say or do the wrong thing.

I could tell that the discussion was doing it right for the group participants as they tried to let go of perfectionism and the unhelpful messages they had gotten from their families of origin.

As I face another day of internal pressure of doing it right, I will remember the guidelines we talked about in yesterday’s group:

Show up.
Be gentle.
Tell the truth.

I hope I’m doing it right by sharing these images today.

I’m actually not dead inside because I just saw that the interview about me and music is available on the Therapist Uncensored podcast.

When I listen later today, I hope I’ll be doing it right.

Many thanks to all who are here for this “doing it right” blog post, including YOU!

Categories: group therapy, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: cats, healthy choices, March 17 2026, The Daily Bitch Calendar, Therapist Uncensored podcast, Twitter | 12 Comments

Day 4822: One great moment after another

Posted on March 16, 2026 by Ann Koplow

To me, this movie has one great moment after another.

That’s why it never gets old and I can watch it over and over again.

With all the suffering in the world, it’s difficult for me to see life as one great moment after another, but I’m working on it.

Do you see one great moment after another in today’s blog post?

I wish music had interrupted the stress dream I had this morning where I was lost and couldn’t communicate with somebody who was mad at me, which was not one great moment after another.

Here’s what I find when I search for “one great moment after another” on YouTube.

Thanks to all who are here for my great and not-so-great moments after another, including YOU!

Categories: movies, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: cats, chicken sandwich, Gua Sha, March 16 2026, my daily dose of vitamin K, Oscars 2026, stress dream, The Daily Bitch Calendar, towers for Gaudi Church in Barcelona, Twitter | 10 Comments

Day 4821: Reframing

Posted on March 15, 2026 by Ann Koplow

As I’m reframing my intentions for today’s blog post, here’s a definition of “reframing”:

Yesterday, I was working on reframing this old narrative of mine: When I put myself out there in a new and confident way, disaster results. The “evidence” I have for this old story includes:

Feeling happy, powerful, and confident at age 7; soon after spending years of emotional and physical pain in hospitals because of my rare heart condition.
Confidently sharing my song Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole with strangers on a trip to Georgia; the next day landing on the hospital with a mini-stroke/TIA.
Feeling happy about my upcoming appearance on the podcast Therapist Uncensored; my next INR blood reading being inexplicably and dangerously low.

I work on reframing unhelpful, obsolete, and inaccurate narratives with myself and with my patients in therapy. These old narrative can be very sticky, so reframing can be a life-long practice.

Do you see reframing in my images for today?

Here’s what I find when I search for “reframing” on YouTube:

Thanks to all who are here for my daily reframing, including YOU!

Categories: heart condition, original song, personal growth, photojournalism, Psychotherapy | Tags: Brassica Kitchen, cats, ChatGPT, International Ask a Question Day, March 15 2026, Therapist Uncensored, Therapy in a Nutshell, Twitter | 8 Comments

Day 4820: Genius

Posted on March 14, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Happy Genius Day!

You don’t have to be a genius to know that geniuses are not in control these days.

Do you see genius in my other images for today?

Here’s what I find when I search for “genius” on YouTube:

I also find this…

… and this:

Thanks to all who are here for this genius post, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: cats, easy actually, Genius Day, geniuses, Lisa Landowski TED talk, March 14 2026, my INR is good!, puzzles, Smart and Sexy Day, The Common Character Trait of Geniuses, The Daily Bitch Calendar | 9 Comments

Day 4819: Suspense

Posted on March 13, 2026 by Ann Koplow

We’re in suspense about so much these days, including inept and corrupt leadership, war, and climate change.

I’m in suspense about people getting back to me, the clicking noises when I talk, what’s going to happen with my music (I dreamt about it last night!), and whether my INR is going to rebound to a safer level today.

I don’t want to keep you in suspense about what images I’m going to share.

Here’s what I find when I search for “suspense” on YouTube:

There’s no suspense about whether I’m going to thank you at the end of this blog post, is there?

Categories: heart condition, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: cats, favorite suspense movies, How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful — Victoria Smith, INR, March 13 2026, Niveaux pastries, reducing my vitamin K levels, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Singing Therapist, Twitter | 10 Comments

Day 4818: Dreams

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Ann Koplow

I believe that sharing dreams connects people in profound ways.

My dreams usually involve trying to get tasks done, running into endless obstacles, and unsuccessfully trying to communicate with somebody about this.

Last night, I asked a question about dreams on social media.