There has been some healthy debate on social media and among my own friends about Taylor Swift's new song and music video, Anti-Hero. I...

It is not a new theory that we are scared of the unknown, and it makes sense that we would be. Think about why kids (and certain adults)...

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. This word is all over social media these days. Everyone is supposed to have healthy boundaries. ...

The other day, one of my clients dumped me. She* told me that she did not feel she was making progress quickly enough, nor the kind of...

The number of people who sit on my little gray couch and tell me they are scared of being a burden in their relationships astounds me. ...

How often we get caught up in this idea of “should.” I had a patient – a young man in his 20s, in recovery from drugs and alcohol.* He...

Let me be very clear about something: I am very far from perfect. I have a friend who calls herself a “recovering perfectionist,” and I...

We use the term “self-sabotage” a lot in the therapy world. Therapists are referring to when you set yourself up to do things like: push...

Have you ever been so hung up on an ex that months, or even years, later you were still thinking about them, missing them, believing no...

Have you ever had the experience of saying good-bye to someone – I mean a real good-bye – and instead you just say “Let’s stay in touch,...