“I believe in the sun—even when it does not shine; I believe in love—even when it is not shown; I believe in God—even when He does not speak.” ~ found on a wall of a cellar in a Jewish concentration ...

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Maybe for some, there is a quiet desperation at times to be someone else, do something else, to live a life that feels more aligned, more like you—because the truth is not everyone ...

There are days when I leave my therapy room carrying more than notes. I leave carrying stories that do not end when the session ends, and that stay with me long after the door closes. I work with ...

I couldn’t tell you the exact morning it started. It was more like this: lately, I’ve noticed that I’ve been holding my breath a lot. Not in any dramatic way—just a tightness in my chest that moved in ...

I used to care about a lot of things. More than I want to admit. Opinions of strangers, judgments from people I barely knew, the little social niceties that slowly felt like chains. I thought being ...

There is a subtle but pervasive distortion happening within the language of healing. It does not announce itself loudly, nor does it come dressed in obvious cruelty. It arrives instead in the form of ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

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Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...