Blog Articles | Brentwood Psychotherapist Dr. Bill Cloke - Part 15
February 27, 2025
Finding Your Way Through Disaster: A Journey of Loss, Love, and Resilience
Disaster doesn’t knock before it enters your life—it arrives uninvited, turning everything familiar into something unrecognizable. One moment, you're stepping out the door like you have for years, and the next, life as you know it is gone. That’s exactly…
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April 2, 2025
When Choosing a Life Partner
I was married 33 years ago, and they threw shoes and rice. My wife was beautiful, and we were in love. We have made a relationship that has stood the test of time, and we were able to understand our…
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May 21, 2025
What I’ve Learned from The Fire
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.” Helen Keller Last night, after Thanksgiving dinner at my daughter's house, my wife showed me a picture of last year's Thanksgiving at our home in Palisades Highlands. The photo illuminated our…
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July 1, 2025
How to Find Sanity in An Insane World
2025 has been quite a year and we are only halfway through it. We lost our home in the Palisades fires and then the whole world caught fire. Wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and Israel, mass shootings and our president…
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September 14, 2025
How to Make Love Last: The Quiet Work of Staying Connected
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other" — Audrey Hepburn When we talk about making relationships last, we’re really asking a deeper question—how do we help love endure? It's not about just staying together under one…
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November 15, 2025
How Cell Phones and AI are Taking Over Our Brains & Our Lives
So, I’m at the gym. It’s supposed to be a sanctuary—a place to reconnect with my physical self, to sweat, to reflect, maybe even chat a bit. But all around me, people sit on workout machines, heads bowed, eyes glazed,…
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