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
Mental Health & Trauma
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
Is quitting therapy the answer?
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
A new paradigm of mental health is happening. Are we ready for it?
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
Is the Algorithm is deciding our mental health?
There’s no question that I spend too much time online. I’ve talked before about how the constant flow of information seems to feed my brain’s urgency to avoid stillness, and … Read more
Quieting the noisy brain: The Default Mode Network and mental disorders
Driving one my sons to soccer recently, I came to the stoplight just a mile or so from the practice field. As we waited for the light to change so … 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
Are you okay or are you an eldest daughter?
My dad’s humor usually makes me want to roll my eyes at best and stage a riot at worst, but he certainly knows what he thinks is funny. When he … Read more
The body holds the key
Back in college, several months before I met him, my partner ended up in emergency surgery after his appendix had ruptured. Fortunately for him, it was diagnosed before it had … Read more