On how to stop making things worse (in three steps)
A while back, my ex-husband sent me what I perceived as a nasty text message . To be fair, we’d had a pretty tense exchange earlier that day when I … Read more
Dr. Ashley Solomon
On eating the strawberry
In one of my very favorite of her books, The Wisdom of No Escape, the American-born Buddhist teacher, Pema Chödrön, recounts a story that I’ve been finding myself returning to … Read more
Life Inside a High-Bandwidth Mind
Many years ago now, when one of my children was going through an evaluation process for suspected ADHD, I stumbled into the world of twice exceptionality. Often abbreviated as “2e,” … Read more
On staying in the hot seat
The early evening sun was just starting to dip behind the trees as we removed our shoes and rinsed our feet. We were a group of twelve or so strangers … Read more
Wicked, Weight, and the Whiplash We’re Not Talking About
Author’s Note: As you read this, please note that this essay isn’t a critique of Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, or any individual’s body or health (or the rightness or wrongness … Read more
5 Questions on Movement as Resistance with Emily Decker
It’s been a minute since I sent you one of these interviews. Emily Decker was in fact one of the first people I reached out to ask to participate. She … Read more
On the art of holding back
I’ll get right to it and tell you that today I’m talking about the concept of restraint – and you should know that I literally groaned to myself when I … Read more
The Myth of Your “True Self”
The other day I was listening to a podcast interview with Elizabeth Gilbert about her latest book, All the Way to the River. My husband was in the car, and … Read more
Can we make marriage good for women?
Not long ago, Kristen Bell shared a post to celebrate her anniversary with Dax Shepherd. She wrote: “Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: ‘I … Read more
On choosing expansion
In my work as a therapist, people often sit in front of me with a lot of very hard decisions to make. These decisions span every facet of life and … Read more
On standing on a whale, fishing for minnows
Cora had been working in her industry since she graduated almost two decades prior. She’d made a solid name for herself, accumulating plenty of accolades along with her ever-widening scope … Read more
On not being denied, but spared
Growing up, my mom realized quickly that she couldn’t tell me that something exciting was soon to happen because I’d be relentlessly nipping at her heels until the moment came. … Read more
