Mira Kirshenbaum has an international reputation as a therapist for individuals, couples, and families. She is co-founder and clinical director of The Chestnut Hill Institute. A sought-after speaker, Mira is the author of nine award-winning books, some national and international bestsellers. She has appeared many times on the Today Show and has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey.
Mira's Latest Blog Entries:
“I Love You but I Don’t Trust You”
by Mira and Charles on October 25th, 2011From Chap. 1 of our new book
Now that the first reactions are in, you can see for yourself what people think of our upcoming book on restoring trust in relationships. To give you just a quick, early taste of it, here’s part one of a three-part excerpt from Chap. 1:
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Finding Your Way Back to Each Other
I know. You feel so hurt, so scared, so angry. There’s nothing worse than when someone betrays you and you feel you can’t trust them. You can’t imagine it’s possible that you would ever trust that person again, and at this moment you may not even want to try.
And yet… Read the rest of this entry. »
New hope for couples hurt by betrayal
by Mira and Charles on October 17th, 2011Major breakthrough in restoring trust
Based on the wonderful first responses to our upcoming book “I Love You but I Don’t Trust You,” I’d like to repeat a series of blogs I posted a few months ago. Here goes.
If you had one wish for one breakthrough that would immediately help more couples than anything else, what would it be? For me, that question is easy to answer. As a couples therapist for over 30 years, I know my one wish would be for a way to restore trust in relationships. Why?
What do people think of our trust book?
by Mira and Charles on October 12th, 2011First responses to “I Love You but I Don’t Trust You”
We sent out pre-publication copies of our new book to a variety of well known experts to get their reactions to it. Curious about what they said? Here, unedited, are their comments:
Lies and love
by Mira and Charles on October 3rd, 2011Our 400th blog winner!
Wow! So many of you emailed us with truly great ideas for this, our 400th blog post (ta-DAH!). A huge thanks to you all for your thoughtful, fascinating ideas. But we have to choose a winner—though you are all winners in our hearts—and the prize goes to Melissa Miller Garcia for her ferocious pleas to us to sort out the issue of truth and lies in marriage. (Melissa, I’ll contact you about getting you your autographed book.) “Complete honesty is essential,” she said, “but it’s also really hard. What should we do?”
Making sense of May-December
by Mira and Charles on September 29th, 2011Do big age differences make a difference?
Here we go again: our popular feature Ripped from the Headlines. This one is fueled by a Daily Beast reporter doing a piece fueled by reports of a possible Ashton Kutcher (33)-Demi Moore (48) breakup. The questions she asked us are about relationships where one partner is much older than the other, particularly Cougar/Cub relationships. Do they work? And what’s going on with them anyway?
Enter our blog contest before it’s too late
by Mira and Charles on September 26th, 2011You could be the winner!
Just a couple of more days to go. We’ve gotten a lot of entries, but we’d like even more. Just tell us what you’d like as the topic of our upcoming 400th blog post. If we choose your entry, we’ll write a blog on your topic and send you an autographed book of your choice. Let us hear from you!
When she makes more money than he does
by Mira and Charles on September 24th, 2011Competition and conflict in relationships with a high-earning woman
Here’s another in our recurring ripped-from-the-headlines series. This time we were interviewed about the situation that’s happening more and more these days where the woman earns more money than the man or is more successful than he is. Or perhaps the man isn’t earning any money at all. Is this damaging to relationships? Why? Here are our answers.
Dating smarts: Preventing abusive relationships
by Mira and Charles on September 22nd, 2011How to assure that your next relationship won’t be abusive
A young woman I know is newly single. She is starting to date again after a number of years. And she is scared. She’s heard a lot of stories among her friends of boyfriends and husbands who’ve turned abusive. And now, to cap it off, she’s just learned that a friend of hers from a previous job was murdered by her ex. This is scary stuff. And now she really needs to know: how do you prevent getting into a relationship with someone like this?
Our new book!
by Mira and Charles on September 19th, 2011Maybe you can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a cover by its cover!
We just got the cover of our new book, I Love You but I Don’t Trust You, from the publisher. I’d love to get your feedback. What do you think?
Shake it up, baby
by Mira and Charles on September 17th, 2011The importance of changing your routine
Here we are with another entry in our ripped-from-the-headlines series. This interview was based on our award-winning book The Emotional Energy Factor. And it has to do with the fact that being stuck in a routine is bad for your emotional health. The good news is that none of us is stuck. Help is possible, and it’s on the way:
