What Burnout and Postpartum Depression Have in Common
Do you think of burnout and postpartum depression as having something in common? I know I do. We’re not accustomed to hearing those terms lumped together, but so much of what happens when women have postpartum has to do with resource depletion: We’re tasked with one of the biggest jobs we’ll ever have in our lives (taking care of a new born baby), but we’re simultaneously sleep deprived, drained, and…
How to Start Unpacking Your Story
One of the things that I love most about what I do is that it’s a process of excavation. After having spent decades exploring my own life and history, I get to be a guide for someone else – an archaeologist on the journey of his or her life. We dig and root around a little; we play. There are tears sometimes, of course, but truthfully: whenever we begin to…
New Year, New You :) January 2016 Discounts
To celebrate my five year anniversary of being in business (which occurred on January 1, 2016), everything on my site is 50% off for the entire month of January. This means that you can: Learn about how insight can help you to overcome obstacles on your path to personal and professional growth with my eBook, When Change Takes Time – which is $7.50 instead of $15 if you use the promo code fiftyoff….
7 Signs That a Therapist Is Not the Right Fit for You
As a clinical psychologist and a practicing therapist, I have to tell you that I love what I do for a living. Not only was it a lifelong dream of mine to work in private practice, it feels like an absolute honor to bear witness to another person’s growth. It’s a privilege, for sure — and I know that a lot of my colleagues feel the same way. What I…
You FEEL What You Eat (My Revitalize 2015 Recap)
I spent the past four days at the second annual Mind Body Green Revitalize conference in Tucson, AZ. It was an incredible event, and I had a front row seat (literally!) where world renowned experts in wellness and integrative medicine were speaking about physical health, emotional health, sex, biohacking, brain science, and beyond. I want to share some of my favorite take-aways with you. Over the course of the past…
What I Learned About Life on a Locked, Inpatient Unit of a Psychiatric Hospital
The summer after my freshman year in college, I landed my first job in mental health care. It was at a psychiatric hospital in western Connecticut, and, at the risk of sounding strange, I was really excited about it. I’d been studying psychology informally since I was in the 7th grade (no joke: I was like the Doogie Howser of mental health), and I was the kind of kid who…
What Your Anxiety Is Really Trying To Tell You
I don’t know about you, but a lot of people today look at anxiety as if it’s this amorphous, inexplicable, physical phenomenon. They view it as an uncomfortable symptom that needs to be treated with medication, or with anything that will make it “go away.” As a psychologist, I prefer to look at it like this: Anxiety is the emotional equivalent of Glenn Close’s character in Fatal Attraction; it’s thoughts…
How to Melt Stress With One Simple Change:
Do your days begin with you feeling like you’ve been shot out of a cannon? Let me guess: You’re drinking coffee, showering, checking email — maybe all at the same time. It’s a frenzy of chaos and a mad rush. If this sounds familiar, I’m also going to wager that the degree of peace or contentment that you experience rarely improves from there, because how we start our mornings sets…
How To End the Comparison Game Right Now
When I was in the second grade I learned an invaluable life lesson that I carry with me to this day. It all started with a “friend crush.” Jenny* was a third grader in my school and she was somehow an early member of the social elite. I mean – everyone wanted to sit at her lunch table. To be completely honest with you, I don’t remember everything about what…
The Impact of Food on Mood: My Interview with Heather Pierce Giannone
As you may know, I’m a big believer in the idea that our emotions contain information. Some people think that our feelings are a result of neurochemicals firing haphazardly, but I disagree. I believe that they’re signals from our inner wisdom – and when we don’t feel great, it’s usually a sign that something in our life needs our attention. Recently, however, I’ve started to feel concerned that my intentions,…
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