I’ve been thinking lately about the way we talk about boundaries, particularly outside of therapy. Spend a few minutes on social media and you’ll come across some version of the same advice: protect your peace, cut people off, don’t tolerate people...
One of the questions I hear most often in my office is some version of, “How did I end up here again?” The relationship may look different from the last one; the circumstances may have changed. Yet there is often a familiar feeling running through it. A person may...
One of the things I’ve found myself thinking about more over the years is how much my understanding of therapy has changed. When I first became a therapist, I was deeply drawn to insight. That probably isn’t surprising. I’ve always loved ideas and...
This quiz is based on themes from Emily & Amelia Nagoski’s Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle and Kristin Neff & Christopher Germer’s Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout. Burnout isn’t just “being...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about getting older. I turned fifty this year, and somehow I’m already almost fifty-one. That seems impossible because in my head I was just having my 40s birthday celebration not that long ago. People ask me what...
