Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic My personal style signifiers are jeans, a\u00a0great sweater and my ring by Italian designer Monica Castiglioni. I\u00a0once lost it and had to\u00a0buy it all over again because I love it so much. There\u2019s something about it: it\u2019s very organic. I generally like rings that don\u2019t completely close, that leave a certain open space. I also wear a necklace that I got from\u00a0a jeweller in Israel. It\u2019s a mix of black leather and two types of metal, so it has an\u00a0edgy feel to it. I got into fashion in the\u00a0late \u201980s and \u201990s, so I have a bit of a\u00a0new-wave, punk-rock sensibility.The last thing I bought and loved was a piece by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau. It\u2019s a beautiful black-and-white print of a vintage wedding dress. She took a bunch of objects including wedding dresses and submerged them in the Dead Sea, which is a super-salty body of water, and left them for a long time so they accumulated these barnacles of salt. It\u2019s an otherworldly look at the weight of wedding dresses. It\u2019s very evocative.A place that means a lot to me is Chiang Mai in Thailand. I\u2019ve been there a\u00a0few times and I\u2019ve always found it to be\u00a0a\u00a0magical place. I have a soft spot for Thailand. There\u2019s something about the softness of the people, their way of being with each other, the way they do gender, the temples everywhere\u2026 I\u00a0find it a really\u00a0humanistic place.If I don\u2019t drink coffee I\u2019m\u00a0extremely grumpy. Like, unwilling to functionThe best book I\u2019ve read in the past year is H is for Hawk, an extraordinary memoir by Helen Macdonald, who is a falconer. It\u2019s about their relationship with a\u00a0goshawk, a large breed of hawk, and working through their grief through it. I\u2019m drawn to the relationship between humans and animals, and Macdonald has a way of\u00a0capturing something about it where the\u00a0human is secondary, which I love. Also\u00a0one of Annie Ernaux\u2019s books, Simple Passion. She describes being obsessed with\u00a0a lover and the process of letting go of\u00a0that relationship, but she burrows into her own mind, as she often does.Working as a couples therapist has taught me that people really do have the\u00a0capacity and will to transcend their narcissism. That\u2019s why people couple up. And they struggle. It\u2019s hard \u2013 but they can.And the key to a happy relationship depends on what day you ask me. I don\u2019t have one answer. Maybe live and let live. See your partner and try to love them for who they are, not who you want them to be.The best gift I\u2019ve given recently was a\u00a0set of beautiful Japanese sculpting tools, which I got for my friend Boaz, who sold his market-research company and became an artist. He was deeply happy with it. He\u2019s\u00a0making a series of wooden couples that are facing each other.And the best gift I\u2019ve received is a\u00a0portrait of my dog Nico sitting on my therapy chair. It was a gift from my team at Edgeline Productions, the company behind Couples Therapy. Every time we finish a season, they create the most meaningful gifts for me. They once made this collage out of the coloured tags we use to label the recorded sessions; it looks like an abstract artwork. They\u2019re like your best teenage girlfriend who thinks of the perfect gift.\u00a0Most arguments are started in the frame of attack and defence, which is always a problematic structure of discourse. A lot of arguments could have been saved if people had just said, \u201cThis is my truth. This is how I\u2019m feeling. How about you?\u201d Then people wouldn\u2019t need to argue. Attack and defence has to do with an orientation of blame as opposed to trying to see the truth of things.In my fridge you\u2019ll always find batteries. My dad told me that you should keep them in the fridge, and I keep doing it even though I don\u2019t know why. I also try to have avocado, berries and truffle manchego cheese, but I\u2019m not a foodie. I mostly have food in the fridge because my children, Ruby, 24, and Jasper, 15, need to eat.The podcast I listen to once in a while is The Ezra Klein Show. He\u2019s had a few really good ones on the Israel-Palestine situation, including his conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, an American author and activist. Did it change my opinion? No. I\u00a0think it\u2019s generally rare to find something that changes one\u2019s opinion. For most of us \u2013 including myself, sadly \u2013 we listen to be confirmed. What changes my opinion is when I see what\u2019s going on in Gaza: that changes my opinion a great deal.An indulgence I would never forgo is\u00a0having two espressos at Caf\u00e9 Regular in\u00a0Brooklyn, where I go every morning. Every important meeting, every important conversation I\u2019ve had in the past eight years \u2013 such as my first meeting with Josh\u00a0and Elyse, two of the directors and executive producers of Couples Therapy \u2013\u00a0has happened there. It\u2019s the centre of my\u00a0universe. And if I don\u2019t drink coffee, I\u2019m\u00a0extremely grumpy. Like, unwilling to\u00a0function. Dangerous.Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It\u2019s what, in a way, makes a plant\u00a0burst out of the ground and turn into\u00a0a tree. It\u2019s the thing that makes life.I\u2019ve recently rediscovered that I love writing more than anything. I\u2019ve been writing forever and have written a lot of academic papers but, because of filming, I\u00a0kind of got away from it. But I recently signed a book deal \u2013 it\u2019s about my understanding of what couples are \u2013 and realised that nothing makes me happier. I\u00a0like having full days where I can write, go into rabbit holes and get lost in research, and then go back to my own writing and move between my desk and the caf\u00e9. Sometimes my daughter and I meet in the caf\u00e9 and write side\u00a0by side. That\u2019s heavenly.I don\u2019t believe in life after death. I\u2019m not a religious person. The people\u00a0I\u2019ve lost in my life live in me.\u00a0Their memory and influence lives in me. But I don\u2019t believe in\u00a0life\u00a0after death.The last item of clothing I\u00a0added to my wardrobe was a beautiful long-sleeved Yohji Yamamoto T-shirt that\u00a0I\u00a0got when I was in Japan in 2023 for\u00a0a\u00a0lecture. I\u00a0love Japanese aesthetics \u2013 their clothing, their furniture. It\u2019s black\u00a0and\u00a0white and has an unexpected print. It\u2019s\u00a0like a painting.\u00a0On my Instagram \u201cFor You\u201d page you\u2019ll find animal and ballet videos. I\u00a0did\u00a0ballet most of my life, until I had my\u00a0first child, and I love watching dancers\u00a0and gorgeous ballerinas achieving these incredible feats. But it\u2019s mostly animal videos \u2013 baby elephants and very\u00a0verbal\u00a0huskies \u2013 and I think that\u2019s good for\u00a0my mental health.\u00a0The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Jack Whitten, an\u00a0incredible African-American artist whose work is mostly abstract and non-figurative. It\u2019s breathtaking. They\u2019re like formal compositions but with incredible use of paint and subtle colours. Then there\u2019s a\u00a0long-dead Israeli artist, Moshe Kupferman, whom I have a few pieces by. There\u2019s something similar about\u00a0the two\u00a0artists, even though they\u00a0painted at different times \u2013 a lot of greys and\u00a0layering, but there\u2019s a whole world in there. You feel like you can dive\u00a0into it.The beauty staple I\u2019m never without is Phyto shampoo. It\u2019s good for fine straight hair like mine. Otherwise, I\u2019m lacking. Skincare rituals? No. I put moisturiser on in the\u00a0morning, I wash my face at night. Phyto Shampoo, \u00a314 for 250mlThe best thing about my job is that it puts me in touch with people\u2019s ongoing search for truth and transcendence. It puts\u00a0me in touch with the\u00a0decent parts of\u00a0humanity. My job is accompanying people while they transcend all sorts of\u00a0bad\u00a0things that happen to them and\u00a0get\u00a0better. Also, working with the production and director team that I work with. They\u2019re very talented but they\u2019re also\u00a0very decent and ethical people \u2013 and surrounding yourself with talented, ethical people is the key to a\u00a0good life. And I think because the show has been so successful, it\u2019s given me a sense of responsibility. We\u00a0know we\u2019re having an impact on the\u00a0world, and we take\u00a0it seriously. We\u00a0have\u00a0a chance to actually make a\u00a0difference, to\u00a0move the needle. We\u2019re\u00a0doing something good.My favourite app is The Breathing App, for meditation, which I try to\u00a0practise every day. It gives rhythm\u00a0to\u00a0your breath, and you can adjust\u00a0the inhale and exhale. And unfortunately, I\u2019m on a lot of news apps \u2013 The New York Times, BBC, Al\u00a0Jazeera, Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper \u2013 which is a big time sink. I\u2019m trying to manage that.I\u2019m a very avid yogi. I have several instructors but the studio I love most is Kula Yoga in Brooklyn. I go twice a week, three times if I\u2019m lucky. A lot of dancers make that shift at some point.A way to make me laugh is to gesture things with your body language that are impossible to put in words \u2013\u00a0whether it\u2019s capturing something that an animal does or humans do, that\u2019s the kind of thing that will get me laughing forever.My favourite building is the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, north of Copenhagen. It\u2019s the most gorgeous museum ever. There are lots of glass passageways and the inside and outside blend beautifully. It\u2019s not grandiose. It\u2019s very humble and the experience of seeing art there is great. It\u2019s just the right size.My style icon is my mum, who was an art curator all her professional life. I love her style in the sense that it\u2019s very understated. She likes geometric stuff. She likes solid colours. Never flashy. She just has really good taste. I also think Michelle Obama is incredible in terms of the way she uses fashion to support her message. It\u2019s beautiful and tough. Like, she appreciates beauty but she\u2019s also uncompromising.The last music I downloaded was \u201cCmon\u201d, a track by Brian Eno and Fred Again. It\u2019s electronic but it kind of goes somewhere emotionally. It\u2019s perfect for writing.In another life, I would probably have been a painter. I\u2019ve recently convinced my closest friends to get into the habit of bringing art supplies; we\u2019ll spend weekends together and paint side by side. We don\u2019t talk much when we\u2019re painting \u2013 it\u2019s just the pleasure of it. It\u2019s contagious.The best bit of advice I ever received was the statement \u201cthat\u2019s information\u201d. We\u2019re always in some kind of negotiation with reality: what we like, what we don\u2019t like, what we want to change. There is a way to look at things that happen as simply information \u2013 not something you have to do\u00a0anything about. It gives you the\u00a0option to\u00a0not intervene but observe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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