Susan M. Pollak, M.T.S., Ed.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the mother of two grown children. She is the author of the new book, Self-Compassion for Parents: Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself. She is a longtime student of meditation and yoga who has been integrating the practices of meditation into psychotherapy since the 1980s. Dr. Pollak is cofounder and senior teacher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance and president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.