Why the Imitation Game Matters
What The Imitation Game says about isolation, secrecy, and the cost of living hidden, from a therapist’s chair.
The Benefits of Gratitude: Powerful Ways Gratitude Improves Your Mental Health
What gratitude actually does, including the effect on relationships that most gratitude advice never gets to.
When Caretaking Becomes an Unhealthy Equilibrium
The point where caretaking stops being generous and starts holding both people exactly where they are.
Back to School Blues and Stress Relief for Students
Back-to-school stress relief for students, parents and adults: homework anxiety, college homesickness, commute stress and better sleep.
How to Cope in Our Crazy World
How to stay functional when the news is relentless, without doom-scrolling or pretending nothing is happening.
Five Myths About Suicide
Five widely held beliefs about suicide that are not accurate, and why the misconceptions make it harder to help someone.
When Multitasking Creates Madness
Your brain can only focus on one thing at a time. Why we stay so confident about multitasking anyway, and the low-tech fix two UT professors suggest.
How Socializing Helps the Brain
What social contact does to the brain, and why isolation costs more cognitively than most people realize.
What It Takes to Be a Professional Athlete
The psychological demands of professional sport, and what meeting them tends to cost the people who do.
Why Self-Acceptance Is Important: A Therapist’s Guide to Self-Love and Lasting Change
What self-acceptance is, how it differs from self-improvement, and why one has to come before the other.
Why We Need Technology Timeouts
Seven practical ways to take a technology timeout, from charging your phone outside the bedroom to noticing what the scrolling helps you avoid.
The Simplest Way to Overcome Anxiety and Depression
Understanding your anxiety before trying to fix it, then using behavioral steps. A sequence that holds up better than willpower.