Making Room for Whimsy: How to Have More Fun as an Adult
A therapist on making room for whimsy: how to add more fun, play, and novelty to your adult life by revisiting what you loved as a kid.
Why Procrastination Is So Hard to Beat, and What Actually Helps
Procrastination is not a time management problem. A therapist on why you avoid the task itself, and what actually helps you start it.
Why “Winning” the Argument Loses the Marriage
The courtroom instinct, collecting evidence and proving your spouse wrong, is the one to unlearn at home. Five habits that change how couples argue.
Heated Rivalry Isn’t Just a Gay Hockey Love Story. It’s a Mental Health Story for All of Us.
Heated Rivalry is about two closeted hockey players, but the hiding, the fear of intimacy, and the cost of staying invisible are not just theirs.
Why Do I Feel This Way? The Purpose of Emotions
Why do I feel this way? A therapist on the purpose of emotions, why anxiety is usually trying to protect you, and three questions to ask instead.
Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance, and What You Can Do About It
Why the insurance directory is full of therapists who never call back, what coverage changes about your care, and what to do when you can’t find a fit.
Back to School Without the Battle
A Just Mind workshop on ending the morning meltdowns and bedtime standoffs before the school year starts. What you will learn, and who is presenting.
What Divorce Court Taught Me About Saving Marriages: 7 Warning Signs to Catch Early
Thirty-three years in divorce court taught this family lawyer turned therapist what ends a marriage. Seven warning signs worth catching early.
ADHD and Motivation: 5 Stages of the Cycle (and How to Push Through)
ADHD motivation runs on interest, not importance. The five stages of the motivation cycle, and how to push through when it stalls.
What to Do With Your Child During the Summer: 5 Ideas
A play therapist on what to do with your child over the summer: a loose routine that holds, ideas for working parents, and screen rules that stick.
ADHD in College Students
Roughly 16% of first-year college students screen positive for ADHD. How to pick a school with real support, and whether to disclose on the application.
ADHD in Marriage: How the Gottman Method Can Help
ADHD in a marriage is rarely about not caring. How the Gottman Method helps couples stop reading symptoms as indifference and repair the pattern.