~ Lately it seems like every time I check in with an old friend, I hear about how they've been going through some extraordinarily tough life experience during the last six months or so. I'm not sure what's in the air or stars, but I think a different way of approaching life is in order right [...]
Well, welcome to 2024. You made it. I made it. Incredibly we all got through 2023, which was a ride. And this new year is coming in strong with some trends of its own, I think for the better. Lately I’ve noticed a theme across my clients, and in the world generally as I scrolled through [...]
Dear friends & clients, As I start down the path of writing my dissertation (on the cultural complex of individualism and the epidemic of loneliness in the American psyche), I have been reading Johann Hari’s book, Lost Connections. He eloquently touches on the causal relationship between loneliness and depression, and the many ways loneliness has become an [...]
[To listen to an audio version of this post, click here or search for "Again, but with Feeling" wherever you get your podcasts.] I was never the kid that dreamed of having babies. I didn’t make my dolls get married and live out the fantasy life of the nuclear family. I never dragged a stroller [...]
I rarely enjoy the start of January. When everyone is off making resolutions, doing rituals, and displaying a general sense of optimism, I have a heavy bog of existential dread that washes over me. Over the last few years I have mistaken it as a deep depression that cyclically starts each new year, and an indicator that [...]
How is your New Year so far? Personally, this part of the year is always accompanied by a psychic darkness. I feel disoriented about which way is up, and I am constantly questioning each step forward, so much so that sometimes I just stop stepping. I start to feel trapped in a loop, like I’ve [...]
