by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Aug 11, 2026
In 2009, I was standing in the lobby of my building in the Bronx, talking on the phone with the assistant to the director of a million-dollar project I was consulting on. She asked me a question, and I lied. It was not a huge lie. It was not something that would bring...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jun 19, 2026
Why I had to talk about this in the upcoming docuseries. There I was standing at my mother’s bedside in a New York City hospital. The room was too quiet. Machines humming. Air thick with something I didn’t yet have words for. A nurse leaned in gently and said, “Go...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jun 18, 2026
Why I do what I do. I was seventeen years old. And I thought I might die on a city bus in the Bronx. It was 1975. I was riding home from school. Just another ordinary day, until it wasn’t. I come from a lower-middle-class African American family with strong values,...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Apr 15, 2026
Four Things To Consider In this time when everyone is going through something big simultaneously, empathy must still lead the way. We still need some real lessons on how to be empathetic and support each other. I was having a tough day processing yet another...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Mar 24, 2026
How are YOU handling it??? Yeah, well, last night I almost lost it. That’s right. It took everything in me not to run outside and scream at the top of my lungs for hours. The stress of the times we are living in started to get to me, and I immediately began to wonder...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Mar 10, 2026
Four Key Steps for a Real Apology That Heals the Harm and Restores the Relationship There have been some very public apologies in the headlines in the last few weeks, and the commentary has been loud. Much of it has been negative. Folks just didn’t get it right the...
