Having already achieved enlightenment (The Year of Living Biblically) and sharpened his mind (The Know it All), A.J. Jacobs had one feat left in his self-improvement trinity: bodily perfection. Jacobs, a self-described “mushy, easily winded, moderately sickly blob,” vowed to retool every part of his long-neglected body, and over two years, the experiential journalist, author of Drop Dead Healthy, subjected himself to a regimen of exercise, diets, and experiments, from pole dancing to “chewdaism.”
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Future of Health: A.J. Jacobs: My Quest for the Perfect Body
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00 – 7:15pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
ParentMap: John Gottman: Making Marriage Work
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $20-$25.
With wit and wisdom, Gottman offers tips for dealing with trust and betrayal, tools for taking your marriage to the next level …
NW Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study: Dr. E.K. Rynearson: Restorative Retelling after Traumatic Grief
Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free, RSVP required
Psychiatrist E.K. Rynearson’s strategy for “restorative retelling” provides hope for family members after the violent death of a loved one. While “retelling” the events of the death can be therapeutic for family members, Rynearson says, it also can entrench them in grief.