Who does not love to be protected? Can you remember a time when someone stuck up for you in public?

Romantic relationships can be hard. Like, really f’ing hard. And it can be so nice to have help given to us in the form of a succinct list.

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If you will indulge me…Take your right hand and begin massaging your left index finger. Start out gently and slowly use more force so that y

How much of how we live our lives revolves around a deep feeling of not being enough? Enough, just as we are, to be worthy of money, of resp

This isn’t a cliché post about overcoming a toxic relationship and moving on.

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After a recent session focusing on inner child healing, a client of mine wrote this beautiful poem. I received permission from her to share

You’re a woman in her early thirties, dressed nicely, and on the bus coming home from work. It’s about 7pm, and dusk is arriving. You take y

When I was born, I was given up for adoption. It would take me nearly thirty years to understand how much this has affected me. Speaking...

In a recent conversation, my mom asked me why some people become addicted to drugs while others do not. I love when conversations go in a ch

During client-centered therapy, the therapist is absolutely careful not to send the client down a path which is not of their making.