A Therapist’s Meditation on Mental Health, Values, and the State of Things

Hands 🙌🏻 OFF National Day or Protest, 4/5/25, Orlando City Hall. Check out my linked article “Are We a Nation in the Midst of a Trauma Response?

Feeling, Writing, and Finding My Way Back to ME

Life has this way of consistently (and relentlessly) offering up opportunities - sometimes in a clear box tied up with bow, sometimes buried deep in a murky lagoon - to learn and grow in our understan...

Today I have been thinking about how much I am enjoying Substack (I have been off all social media for 18 months - more on that in a future post) and what exactly I want to use this space for and I re...

(Trigger warning: This article may cause BIG feelings—rage, exhaustion, existential dread, all of the above.)

For years, I was all over Instagram and Facebook(except when I wasn’t), posting about running around “living my best life”.

One of my clients shared this Los yesterday - by Divine Soule, Harpak Singh in FB SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL "Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming." Blame is an easy escape, but it...

This first entry was originally written in June of 2022 and updated in February 2025.