Psychotherapy

Day 4912: Disclosures

Posted on June 14, 2026 by Ann Koplow

I am the kind of psychotherapist who uses self disclosures in my groups and in individual therapy. These disclosures are in service of the patient and reflect fundamental and shared experiences. These disclosures, I hope, reinforce the healing message that no one is alone.

Yesterday, I saw the new Steven Spielberg movie Disclosure Day, which disclosed typical Spielbergian themes including the importance of empathy and transforming trauma into art.

Full disclosure: I love Spielberg movies and highly recommend this one.

What disclosures do you see in my images for today?

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

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Now it’s time for my disclosures of gratitude to YOU!

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Day 4879: I’ve Done My Best

Posted on May 12, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Last week, a patient I’ve done my best with told me about a useful mantra they had created:

I’ve done my best

I’ll let the universe do the rest.

For years, I’ve done my best at

  • blogging,
  • psychotherapy,
  • parenting,
  • music,
  • humor,
  • taking pictures,
  • connecting with others, and
  • being a thoughtful citizen of the world.

It’s nice to think of the universe doing the rest. That doesn’t mean I’ll stop

  • blogging,
  • psychotherapy,
  • parenting,
  • music,
  • humor,
  • taking pictures,
  • connecting with others, and
  • being a thought citizen of the world,

but it does take some pressure off.

I’ve done my best to introduce my images for today.

I’ve done my best with my old student Chris Delyani, who’s done his best with his latest novel.
I’ve done my best jogging and now that I’m dealing with health restrictions I’ll let the universe do the rest.

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I’ve done my best finding another great YouTube video for the day:

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I’ve done my best and now I’ll let my gratitude do the rest.

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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.

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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?

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

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What are your thoughts and feelings about childhood memories?

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

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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/

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Do you see anything shameless in my images for today?

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

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

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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”:

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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?

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

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

Categories: heart condition, original song, personal growth, photojournalism, Psychotherapy | Tags: , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Day 4773: Therapy

Posted on January 26, 2026 by Ann Koplow

Because of the snowstorm, I’ll be providing individual therapy remotely today. Because of the snowstorm, I had to cancel my in-person therapy group.

Do you see therapy in my images for today?

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I write songs for therapy, including this one:

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What’s your therapy?

Expressing gratitude is also therapy, so many thanks to YOU.

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Day 4722: Emotional Age

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Ann Koplow

When I was several years younger than I am now, an old friend whom I had know for ages told me that he and his therapist had been discussing emotional age. My friend asked me, “What do you think the average emotional age is?”

I thought about my experience of most people’s emotional ages and then tentatively guessed, “7?”

My friend was delighted with the “accuracy” of my guess but really, can emotional age be measured? And how did his therapist get this information? Also, what emotional age was I if I was so pleased about being “right”?

If you search the internet for “emotional age,” there are lots of tests for measuring it, although I doubt that the average test result is 7. Also, there’s this definition:

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Can you tell my emotional age by the images I am choosing to share today?

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

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

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Day 4716: Good for You

Posted on November 30, 2025 by Ann Koplow

One of my coworkers, another therapist, told me that when listening to patients he often says, “Good for you.”

I believe that’s a good way to respond to people who are doing their best to heal and to bring more good into their lives.

If you are spending more time with good people, staying true to your values and priorities, putting your needs slightly above others’, and being kind in the midst of unkindness, I say, “good for you.”

Do you see things that are good for you in my images for today?

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

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Thanks to all who are doing things that are good for you, including YOU!

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Day 4698: The Inner Child

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Ann Koplow

People have been talking about the inner child in my Coping and Healing groups, so I just googled “The Inner Child.”

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One of my patients gave me a great compliment this week when they said, “Ann is a good friend to my inner child.”

I’ve done my own inner child work in therapy over the years, including EMDR. My inner child is scared about appearing on a podcast this Friday; my adult self knows we will be okay.

Do you see the inner child in my images for today?

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Here’s what I find when I search for “the inner child” on YouTube:

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Thanks to all those who have an inner child, including YOU!

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Day 4696: Secure Relating

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Ann Koplow

In order to prepare for my appearance on the fabulous podcast Therapist Uncensored, I am reading the book Secure Relating by the podcast hosts.

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I am very secure recommending that book to everyone, including my patients.

Do you see secure relating in my other images for today?

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Here’s what I find when I search for “secure relating” on YouTube.

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When I appear on the podcast this Friday, I’m going to use secure relating to ask how the co-hosts used this version of my song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole” for some of their in-person events.

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I look forward to secure relating in the comments section, below.

Thanks to all who showed up for secure relating today, including YOU!

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