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“You can be competent and still feel unsafe.”― Esther Perel The Psychology of Returnships and Why Returning to Work Carries More Than Most People See There is a moment no one talks about. Not the moment you update your CV. Not the moment you finally press “apply.” Not...

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is moreimportant than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”― Nathaniel Branden We are living in a time where sharing accomplishments has become both common and encouraged. Promotions, milestones, personal growth, motherhood,...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”― Martin Luther King Jr. Expectation is a quiet architect. It shapes the way we walk into conversations, the ways we love, the ways we plan for the future and the ways we interpret the present...

“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays There is a quiet ache that comes from holding things in. We tell ourselves that silence is strength, that keeping the peace is noble. Whose...

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder Before we even understand words, we engage in the stories around us. We begin by listening to the tone of our parents’ voices,...

“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” – Erik Erikson What crosses your mind when someone asks, “What do you do?” Do you happen to think of your hobbies? Of what you like to do during the day to...

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”— Rumi As humans, we tend to think a lot every single day. How many of those thoughts would you consider to be repetitive?...

If therapy is meant to feel safe, why does the first step feel so uncertain? If therapy is meant to heal, why does it bring up the pain we tend to bury? If therapy is meant to bring us closer to ourselves, why does it begin with the urge to turn away? Hesitation....

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”  ― Gabor Maté The doors to therapy are open: Summer through winter, one day after another.  Have you felt it? It’s that certain heaviness of realizing that summer is coming to end. It’s that...

If there’s one thing you could tell your teenager,what would it be? The sun has set. The once small child with the toothy grin and chubby cheeks has now blossomed into a young teenager, brimming with passion, intensity and curiosity for the world ahead.  For...

“Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it's not the end.” ― Oscar Wilde There’s a strange kind of silence that forms when you're always the one people rely on. You become the go-to for advice, the one who keeps things afloat, the fixer, the...

And let there be no purpose in friendship  save the deepening of the spirit.     For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. - Gibran Khalil Gibran, The...