Our pets bring joy and responsibility into our lives, often when we need it the most. They greet us at the door, sit beside us in silence, and love us without condition or expectation. We come to rely on them in ways we don’t always fully understand… until they’re gone. Our time together is beautiful, […]

If it’s our business to pursue something (and it is), then we will inevitably face setbacks. There’s no river yet discovered without a bend or a curve somewhere along the way, and when we travel on the river of desire, the twists and turns are every bit as important as the final destination.  But there […]

They say when life closes a door, it opens a window. What they don’t say is exactly how easy it is to miss an open window when you’re panicking about the closed door.  Whether it’s a personal relationship, a college application, a job interviewer, a bank official, or even the IRS, we all face rejection […]

Change can look like a shiny new job, an exciting new relationship, or a fascinating new diagnosis that explains many of the symptoms you’ve been worried about for the past few months. The point is, whether it’s good or bad, navigating change can be an intense psychological experience.  That’s why coping with change is so […]

Anxiety and depression can make hope feel like an unrealistic work of fantasy, but hope can return to us even through the smallest of steps. You don’t need to change who you are to start finding hope, you just need to start looking for it. The more you train yourself to look for hope, the more […]

October is as good a time as any to be sober, but that doesn’t make it any less difficult! If you have a history of relying on substances for peace, comfort, and joy, it can feel pretty overwhelming when we interrupt that with a month of sobriety. But if you compassionately accommodate yourself and find […]

Change is often stressful or even traumatic, but it cannot be avoided. Time itself is essentially an abstracted measurement of change, and as sports journalists are often desperate to say: father time is undefeated. And so when we embark on our journey through life, we must accept that change is an inevitable consequence of that […]

I remember going through a major life transition and feeling like my world was turned upside down. Even though I felt in my heart that the changes that were happening were for the best, and that I would most likely  grow and evolve into an even better version of myself, I still felt lost. I […]

Reparenting yourself can be challenging work. After all, if parenting were easy, it probably would have been done 100% right the first time. As it stands, our upbringings are imperfect at best and traumatizing at worst. So for the untold many who have suffered either imperfect or traumatizing childhoods, there lies the great work of […]

How does therapy help you handle big life changes?  When everything is changing around us, sometimes it can feel like we have nothing to rely on. That’s when working with the right therapist can make all the difference in the world.  You know better than anyone the specifics of what you’re going through, but how […]