While Sigmund Freud got a lot wrong, there’s also much he got right. Freud invented talk therapy and understood its effectiveness in working through emotional trauma. He also understood that there are biological underpinnings to emotional experience, including trauma.
Read MoreA yoga teacher I knew liked to say that the real yoga is off the mat. What he meant is that coming to class each week is great for strength, flexibility, and stress reduction, but that its greatest value is in helping us move with greater ease for the other 167 hours of the week.
Read More“Anxiety makes depression look like a day at the beach,” someone told me once. What he meant was that while fighting depression is all-consuming, anxiety was unbearable because it mades him want to jump right out of his skin. That person spoke for many of us. Managing anxiety is a tall order. It’s also possible. Talk therapy offers sustainable and lasting change by making you aware of what triggers or worsens your anxiety…
Read MoreBefore the pandemic hit, a journalist made a prediction. An expert in epidemiology who covered the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 90s, he said something that stayed with me.
Read MoreA couple was having trouble last year, and it looked as though they were headed for a breakup. Then lockdown happened, and I didn’t hear from them for a while. This happens sometimes; couples need to step back and take stock of what has gone on in therapy. A few months later, they called.
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