Psychologist Lisa Miller
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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She was gone.
I shared this story with one of the unit chiefs, who's a very good person and was, I think, trying to speak in my best interest.
The unit chief said, what you did was beautiful.
It was completely right.
Don't ever tell anyone you did that.
There was a sense that somehow spirituality doesn't belong here.
Psychotherapy, mental health treatment, is medical, so-called biological.
What is this sort of airy-fairy, indeterminate, unmeasurable, otherly thing of spirituality?
Shankar, once we see in its intense, most grueling form, mental illness, whether it's a deep depression or profound anxiety, as a therapist, it's then very easy to eyeball the subway, be at a dinner party and see a whiff of that depression or anxiety.
So I left the inpatient unit, and just about every day I'd ride home on the subway and see on people's faces and in their countenance what weighs on them.
But one day, Shankar, I saw a gentleman whose eyes were bright like the sun.
He wasn't smiling across his mouth, but there was a joy through him.
He was an Orthodox Jew.
Probably Chabad.
And I could see that he was davening.
He was praying right there on the subway.
I felt the illumination.
I felt the joy that I'd seen in the patients on the inpatient unit during our Yom Kippur service.
And in this sort of struggle of more suffering than we really need to have in our lives on the subway, in a restaurant, in the coffee shop, I saw what was equal and opposite to the suffering.
And it was the illumination of spiritual awareness and connection.
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