If you’ve avoided recovery because giving up the only-ways-you-know-to-survive feels overwhelming, know that the goal of good therapy is not “stopping certain behaviors” – it’s …
Most of us know one or two help rejecting complainers. It can be tempting to get frustrated, give up, or get “even,” but when we …
Numbers, timers, scales, and bell curves are not the measure of health- they are external authorities sold to us as measures of goodness, permission, and …
When all you can muster up the energy to do is sit on the couch in a blanket-burrito browsing internet memes, try sitting outside in …
Needs that are ignored or unable to be met due to lack of resources do not go away – instead, they often become all-consuming until …
Social media can be a dark, divisive place sometimes. On the other end of the spectrum, depending on the accounts you choose to follow, it …
Schizophrenia is among the most debilitating mental health disorders- so much so that there is still a lot of stigma around the diagnosis. The problem …
Most psychological measures and scales tend to make us think in black-and-white terms, but I like how this adaptation takes the attachment style grid and …
How Do You Find A Therapist? Sometimes finding a therapist can be the hardest part of deciding to start therapy. It can be hard to …
The interest in “scary stuff” is not a new phenomenon, but our culture’s love for scary content – proven through the enduring popularity of true …
Attachment styles illustrated as ghosts. To learn more about attachment styles and how the way we tend to relate to others can be plotted on …
In a culture where “vulnerability” can sometimes feel like relational currency, it’s easy to fall into a trap of telling someone about our trauma stories …
I drew these intuitive eating inspired doodles while on vacation in Translyvania (yes, I’m serious!). As I passed through this part of Romania with its …
Most of the “life stories” we encounter through fiction, movies, and summary biographies (i.e. wikipedia) follow narrative development that isn’t really accurate. In real life, …
There is an enormous amount of pressure on parents to keep tabs on everything their teen does – especially online. But a little bit of …
For a while now, the terminology of both “victim” and “survivor” has sat uneasily with me. Both terms center the traumatic experience as part of …
Results of a recent study confirmed what has long been suspected: when depression goes untreated, sections of the brain can begin to deteriorate, or, in …