The Stories We Tell Ourselves

“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?...

Starting Therapy: Answers To Most Common Questions

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....

Post-Summer Reflections on the Inner World

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...

When Your Strength Becomes Your Silence

“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 Emotional Cost of Rapid Friendships

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...