Kim Schneiderman, Author at Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, MSW

My interview with Terri Williams, the “Bliss Lady”

http://www.empoweradio.com/home/shows/on-demand/soulful-living/809744-Rewrite-Your-Story-with-Kim-Schneiderman.html

How to Stop Getting Stuck in the Same Old Plotline

Have you ever noticed that the same type of character keeps showing up in your life and pushing all your buttons? These people may look nothing alike or even share the same gender, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps it’s not a certain person but […]

From Imagination to Reality

Grateful for this sweet profile in the Baltimore Jewish Times … http://jewishtimes.com/37617/from-imagination-to-reality/

Your Life as a Character Development Workout

How Antagonists Help Us Strengthen Emotional and Mental Muscles

Does the same type of character keep showing up in your life and pushing your buttons? These people may look nothing alike, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps there’s a negative situation you keep finding yourself struggling with: picking up the slack and getting no […]

Tapping into Your Omniscient Narrator

How Writing in the Third Person Helps You Step Out of Your Story

In the movie Stranger than Fiction, Harold Crick is a robotic IRS agent who begins to question his mundane existence when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life and foreshadowing his untimely death. When he discovers that he is not the master of his own destiny, but rather a fictional character dreamed up by an […]

Cyber-spying and Defriending

How Facebook is Finding Its Way Onto the Therapy Couch

As a psychotherapist in private practice, I can’t help but notice that Facebook is wreaking mischief in some of my clients’ personal lives. One client caused a family scandal when he established privacy settings that prevented some, but not all, of his relatives from seeing his status updates. A 14-year-old client gave up Facebook for […]

What to Say When You’re Not OK

Question: This spring, I will be getting divorced. Because everyone is in such good spirits, I feel like I have to pretend that I’m OK, but I’m devastated. When people ask how I am, I never know how much to share. When you’re in crisis, a simple “How are you?” can feel like the prelude […]

How to keep your cool when your anger is out of proportion

Common superstition holds that bad (and good) things come in threes. So when, in one evening, two back-to-back clients sought advice about how to respond to unforeseen personal attacks after I also had been verbally accosted earlier that day, I knew I had to address the issue in my column. One client had been the […]

The Trouble with Texting

Why Texting is No Substitute for Face-to-Face Communication

Lately, I’ve noticed more clients using text messages to discuss or argue about unresolved issues in their relationships. As someone who is all thumbs with my thumbs, I’m always amazed that people have the digital dexterity to carry on a reasonably coherent text dialogue for longer than two minutes. But personal challenges aside, texting is […]

Narcissism and the Ugly Side of Vanity

Question: I have a friend who constantly talks about herself and rarely asks any questions about my life. She is constantly preening, obsessed with her body, brags about her sexual and professional conquests, and posts seductive selfies on social media. Is it just self-confidence, or narcissism? Lately, the media has been examining narcissism from more […]

Other Offerings

Step Out of Your Breast Cancer Story

A Journey of Healing, Meaning, and Renewal

Every life is an unfolding story — a sacred, ever-evolving narrative that only we can interpret. For breast cancer survivors, one of the greatest challenges is making sense of the profound physical, emotional, and spiritual changes that accompany diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. How we understand and tell our story shapes how we feel about it — and can even influence how it continues to unfold.

Offered in partnership with the Northern Dutchess Hospital Survivorship Program, this 4-week group provides a supportive space for breast cancer survivors to reflect, share, and rediscover their personal story as one of courage, growth, and transformation.

Together, we’ll explore how the difficult chapters of our lives can reveal hidden strengths, wisdom, and renewed purpose. Through guided reflection, group connection, and gentle journaling prompts (optional), participants will begin to integrate the challenges and insights of survivorship — and envision the next chapter of their lives with clarity and compassion.

Program Highlights

Participants will:

Reframe painful or self-limiting stories into narratives that honor resilience, grief, and growth.

Discover inner resources and voices of courage, wisdom, and self-compassion.

Integrate the emotional and spiritual lessons of survivorship in community with others who “get it.”

Reclaim authorship of their story and identity beyond “breast cancer survivor.”

Envision a thriving future self and a life grounded in meaning.

Presented in collaboration with the Northern Dutchess Hospital Survivorship Program as part of the hospital’s Light the Village Pink initiative for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

(Dates and registration details coming soon — sign up below to receive updates.)