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A New Adventure: On Letting Go And Living Forward

August 7, 2018 Ili Rivera Walter, PhD, LMFT
A New Adventure: On Letting Go And Living Forward | Family Therapy Basics

As you read this, I am preparing to board a plane to New York City.

The past month or so, I’ve published several guest blog posts here, on Family Therapy Basics (a few more coming this month!), and I’ve simplified my schedule, in general, because my family has been in the midst of organizing a “cross-country” move. We are leaving South Florida and will soon become New Yorkers.

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