Four strategies for finally making peace with time
I spent the vast majority of my life in a fraught relationship with time. It usually felt like something I was railing against. The not enoughness of it. The quickness … Read more
Leadership & Career Life
Why older women do indeed matter
As the 2024 presidential election was picking up steam, one of JD Vance’s lightening comments resurfaced in which he complained that the country was soon to be run by “a … Read more
The Drama Triangle will change how you look at every conflict
The Drama Triangle has been influencing my life and my work for a while now – one of those things that I can’t help but share with most of my … Read more
I can’t keep rowing upstream: Why ‘time management’ has so spectacularly failed us.
There was a solid year during which my friend Whitney declined every social invitation that came her way. If you asked her, which I eventually did, she would let you … Read more
What personality tests tell us – and what they don’t
Early in my career, while I was working for a rapidly growing healthcare system, my team and I attended one of those half-day sessions designed to get as working as … Read more
What our personal projects reveal about us
After starting my first online blog back in 2009, I met a few other female bloggers all writing about things like mental health and motherhood. The five of us were … Read more
Follow the flow: Using your menstrual cycle to optimize your productivity
Last week, I fully intended to sit down and write the piece you’re reading, but I just couldn’t seem to get beyond a blank screen. This happens, of course. I … Read more
Why You Feel Like an Impostor, And the Rest of Us Do Too
It used to surprise me. I’d be sitting in a therapy room with a VP at a multinational company and she would describe the exact same phenomenon that I’d heard … Read more
Was it all for nothing?
A few weeks ago, I was in a session with a patient who was struggling profoundly with what direction to go with the business she had started. Like so many … Read more
What actually makes a good therapist?
I’ll admit, this is a pretty good time in history to be a therapist. The profession has always been interesting and rewarding, but it was also one that was met … Read more
Is your trauma holding you back at work?
Years ago, I had a boss whom I desperately wanted to please. If I’m honest, I wanted to please almost any person in authority at the time, but my drive … Read more
We’re tired. Why do we keep working so much?
Regardless of our field, the pandemic upturned the working world and forced almost all of us into new patterns. As we’ve heard analyzed probably quite sufficiently by this point, these … Read more