Reflections on Resiliency
Insights and resources from our community of practitioners.
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Making Room to Be Present: Coming Back to Ourselves in a World of Phones
For a long time, my hand found my phone before I’d decided to reach for it: in a quiet moment,…
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How (and Why) to Play with Your Child
“Enter into children’s play, and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.” Virginia Axline, pioneering…
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My Choices Are “Good Enough”
“As the number of choices keeps growing, negative aspects… begin to appear… choice no longer liberates, but debilitates.” Barry Schwartz,…
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A Softer Way to Carry What Matters
Self-compassion for high-capacity women who want to stay accountable without being so hard on themselves.
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Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self
When you’re highly sensitive, you notice details and nuances others miss, deeply process all you notice, and have heightened empathy.…
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Moving Through a Debris Field of Feelings
We are all in the middle of a tornado right now. A pressure front full of conflicting ideas, information, and…
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Spring Cleaning and the Meaning of Our Things
I recently went on a decluttering tour of my home office and bedroom. I got sick of the disorganized items…
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Holding it All Together
In therapy spaces, we talk about “holding it all together” as thought it’s a fixed state—calm, regulated, and ideally achievable…
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Love Beyond Romance
“We need friends who wince along with our pain, who tolerate our gloom, and who allow us to be weak…
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Like a River
This past year, I read John O’Donohue’s poem “Fluent” for the first time, and it hit me right in the…
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Quiet and Candlelight at the Year’s End
These final weeks before the winter solstice are the darkest of the year. There is beauty in the contrast of…
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On Pet Loss
“There is hardly time to love a dog as you’d like, as the dog would no doubt like.” — Robert…
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