Anxiety is a bully. Because it has complete access to your mind, it knows your deepest fears. It knows the exact buttons to push—all your nightmare scenarios—that send you spiraling. If you give it an inch, it takes a mile. The more you acquiesce and give in to its...
For anyone who’s curious about whether or not they could benefit from therapy, there’s one way to tell for sure: Are you breathing? Great. You need therapy. All joking aside, all of us can benefit from therapy at one point or another. No matter who you are or what you...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which begs an honest question: what is mental health, really? In a nutshell, mental health encompasses our inner world. It includes things like psychological and emotional well-being, as well as the nature of our relationships to...
Habits—bad ones especially—are sneaky. They take time to build, and during that process there are things that happen “behind the scenes” that reinforce their power. Bad habits that lead to us feeling better in the moment are especially powerful, and can be really hard...
You’re on the way to a job interview when all of a sudden, the burner! You don’t remember shutting off the burner on your stove. You feel the prickly wash of panic charge through your body as you frantically cobble together memories, searching desperately for a...
Life before. Remember how innocent we all were? Most of us could never have conceived of what happened. It’s safe to say the pandemic shook us all. It changed almost every aspect of life. Things once totally taken for granted – dismissed as “normal” – vanished....
