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10/22/2025

10/22/2025

Breathe Newsletter-October 2025 - https://mailchi.mp/90f9b8feafaa/breathe-newsletter-october-2025 Check out the latest updates at Marin Stress & Anxiety Center

My path into therapy began with a deep curiosity about what it means to be human. I strive to understand how our minds, bodies, and environments are woven together, and how we find meaning in the midst of life’s hardest seasons. Over the years, I’ve been continually moved by people’s courage t...

11/04/2024

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10/08/2024

All dads are welcome to attend!

Are you a Stressed Out Dad? Modern dads work hard, play hard, and love hard. With that said, most dads admit to feeling stressed out, tired, and hungry for real connection about the challenges they face. They often feel like life’s on fast-forward, with a nagging sense that they’re missing out o...

11/22/2023

Enjoy the 25th anniversary of my Thanksgiving Odes. Feel free to share it, read it at your table, or just enjoy in a quiet moment to yourself.

An Ode to Acceptance
2023
By: Jonathan Pofsky, MFT

Another year, another ode
Another time in our life
The good times that we cherish
And the challenging strife

It’s an Ode to Acceptance
Of what’s on our plate
Sometimes it’s a bounty
Other times it’s not great

That day you hit traffic
And your day hits a snag
The little things in life
That can be quite a drag

Or when you get sick
When the big party is near
When its time for your speech
But you’re frozen in fear

There’s so many moments
That emerge from thin air
That we are forced to accept
And feign not to care

But sometimes it gets real
The days where we grieve
The impossible task
We just cannot believe

We can get overwhelmed
When our heart hits a wall
When our life takes a turn
And we crawl up in a ball

We all need a timeout
And some friends till the end
When our heart starts to break
Where instead it may bend

And we feel grateful for both
The bitter and the sweet
The fruit on the vine
Supplies the food that we eat

Which brings it all back
To this thanksgiving day
Where we gather together
And silently pray

That together we accept
The things we can’t change
We honor the emotions
That expand our range

Our capacity to tolerate
What life shows our eyes
The barest of truths
And the stumbling lies

For we are all just human
We share more than we know
When we accept all the colors
We all start to grow

It’s the love that we share
That brings us together
It’s not a passive act
To maintain our tether

Accepting our selves
Our family and friends
Takes a lot of compassion
Being willing to cleanse

The way we might fight
Or judge one another
The way we make people
An inferior other

So today we will wave
The freak flag of peace
And commit to each other
To help all wars cease

Let’s raise up our hands
And feel the sun shine
As we celebrate and gather
With food and with wine

For everything changes
And changes again
So we’ll work to accept
That we just don’t know when

But we’ll do this together
And work on our stuff
So we can be resilient
When things do get rough

But today here we are
Our one life to live
And today’s one real message
It’s the thanks that we give

11/22/2023

Breathe Newsletter: Thanksgiving 2023 -

12/16/2021

See Your Self: 2021 - https://mailchi.mp/4c2a14300269/see-your-self-2021 Enjoy this end of year poem and playlist!

11/24/2021

A 2021 Thanksgiving Offering - https://mailchi.mp/0305584a3dba/a-2021-thanksgiving-offering Enjoy my Annual Thanksgiving Ode

06/28/2021

This rock has brought me peace for almost 2 decades now. I hope you all find your rock.