Mental Health & Trauma

Many years ago, as a baby psychologist, I started to make a little bit of a name for myself by talking to other mental health professionals about using social media … Read more

Over the past year or so, I’ve been going through a really difficult situation. At various points, I was convinced that I would not survive it, at least not with … Read more

One of my many part-time gigs in graduate school was working on a research study through the local children’s hospital. My job was to go visit with postpartum mothers in … Read more

Several weeks ago, I wrote on Instagram about the weird and hard place it is to exist as a therapist in these fraught political times. I wrote it shortly after … Read more

An interesting thing happened on my social media feed in the wake of separating from my now ex-husband. If I really think hard, it might have even been in the … Read more

I’ve realized recently how much I’ve spent the past year thinking about time and how we spend it. I’ve been thinking about it in the existential, reflecting on the profoundly … Read more

I get an email newsletter called “One Great Story,” and on many days I get suckered in to reading what some unnamed person (more likely, entity) has decided is the one thing … Read more

Several years ago, I was standing in the Capitol Building in D.C. in a long-sleeved maroon dress that stretched tightly over my 37-week pregnant belly. I was sweating my ass … Read more