On Valentine’s Day, loneliness, and the quiet cost of false intimacy. We keep hearing the same phrase repeated like a diagnosis: loneliness is an epidemic. Articles warn of rising isolation. Studies ...

And that’s not because you don’t want to or because you don’t know how. It’s because something inside you freezes the moment you even think of leaning on someone else. There is a voice inside of you ...

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Have you ever been with someone who gaslights you, invalidates your feelings, plays the victim, and somehow leaves you questioning your reality? Or maybe you’re the one who’s always available, always ...

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“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from ...

We get older. We watch those in our lives get older. People come in and out of our lives. We have a front row seat to the miracle of new life as family and friends have children. We watch them grow up ...

It’s painful, messy, and unpredictable. It’s everything we don’t want to face. It’s difficult to accept it or even believe that someone wants nothing to do with us. Whether we get rejected socially or ...

“OMG, Roopa! If Donald Trump wins the presidency, I will move. I’ll move to Canada or the UK or Australia. Yes. I’ll move to Australia. It’s far, far away from the U.S.!” That was a bleeding-heart ...

“Boys will be boys,” I say out loud as I sit with my girlfriends, enjoying a few cocktails on a Saturday night. Laughter is the main goal for these evenings. But often, we find ourselves dramatically ...