Susan Pollak, MTS, EdD is cofounder and senior teacher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, where she has supervised and taught since the mid-1990s. She is the president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A longtime student of meditation and yoga, Dr. Pollak teaches about mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion in psychotherapy and has been integrating the practices of meditation into psychotherapy since the 1980s. She is author of Self-Compassion for Parents (for general readers) and coauthor of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy (for mental health professionals). Susan is also a frequent blogger for Psychology Today.

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October 29th, 7pm
"Self-Compassion for Parents: Nurture Your Child by Caring For Yourself"

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Struggling to strike a balance between work, kids, screens, and life? Feeling guilty, because what you can offer never feels like enough? In her presentation, Susan Pollak, author of the book Self-Compassion for Parents, Nurture Your Child by Caring For Yourself, will explain how taking short breaks, and extending self-compassion to ourselves, can help us self-soothe, refresh our energy, and re-connect with our children, families, and friends.