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 ...

It’s a practical concern, in a way: we can only process as much as we know how to process. If we seek to avoid discomfort, we may not even try to process. If we long to cling to the island of “good ...

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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 ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

Many years ago, I was in a group of women for relationships advice. One leader in the group said, “I hate desperate people.” She was sharing this thought regarding someone she had received a message ...

What the f*ck. I am not 10 years old. But my therapist was insistent. In the aftermath of a marriage that blew up like a supernova, I was at the beginning of my journey to figure out why my ...

“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us ...