Healing with half a brain: Why therapy sometimes falls short
Almost twenty years ago, the night before a handful of his songs were being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen sat down for an interview with … Read more
Mental Health & Trauma
Understanding the Fawn Response: When Appeasing Becomes Survival
Acclimating. Adapting. We are constantly shifting to respond to our environment. Our brains are wired to get to the most efficient outcome possible, so we naturally build habits around what … Read more
Paper Trails & Rabbit Holes: Five Hidden Realities of Life with ADHD
Take a moment right now and notice what you first picture when you hear the term ADHD. Even those of us who have the condition or have partners or children … Read more
The Toll of Hidden ADHD in Overfunctioning Women
I’ll start with a sort of confession, which is that I have notes for things I have wanted to include in this essay dispersed over at least five places: my … Read more
How to lose yourself
I was lying on a plush mat on the floor of a large room, an eye mask pulled down to block out the light. The nurse placed her warm hand … Read more
The cost of living life online
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
Widening the lens
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
How can we make sense of depression?
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
Could psychedelics change all of our minds?
You could say that my marriage was on its last legs by the time I sent the article to my husband, but that gives the image of something somewhat upright. … Read more
What I’m doing to not lose my shit in these political times
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
Is everyone’s ex actually a narcissist?
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
Time heals all wounds, and other falsehoods
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