The Importance of Touch in Relationships

Why physical touch matters in a relationship, what it communicates that words do not, and what happens when it quietly disappears.

Breaking the Cycle: Protecting Your Kids from Food Struggles

How food shame passes from one generation to the next, and what to do differently so your kids do not inherit it.

Radical acceptance is not approval and it is not giving up. What it actually asks of you, and why it loosens the grip of what you cannot change.

When a psychological assessment for ADHD or autism is genuinely worth it, and when a conversation with a clinician gets you there faster.

Diets do not simply fail. The failure is built into the design, and the cost lands on your relationship with food long after you stop.

The key ideas behind Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, how it works with the body rather than the story, and who it tends to help.

A first-person account of coming out the other side of food struggles, and the parts that turned out to be transferable to anyone.

IVF carries a grief that is rarely named out loud. What that grief actually looks like, and how counseling helps you carry it.

Healing after a breakup takes grief, support, and time. Practical steps plus a Buddhist view on letting feelings move through you.

Why first responders carry what they carry, and what counseling offers people who were trained never to ask for it.

EMDR helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they lose their charge. Here is how it works and what the PTSD research shows.

Ten ways to build a social life after a move, for the stretch when you know nobody and the loneliness is still fresh.