Therapy

In her book Pursuing Perfection, eating disorder expert Margo Maine writes: “Clearly, the passage of time isn’t helping aging women feel more at peace with their bodies, or making things better for younger women following them into adulthood. The legacy of body image and weight obsession is passed down from one generation to the next, […]

In an interview with Kate Bowler on her podcast, Everything Happens, psychologist Lisa Damour said the following: “Language on its own reduces distress.” She continued, “We have objective physiological measures that tell us that the mere utterance of a feeling word reduces the intensity of the emotion. Is kind of an extraordinary and actually in […]

I recently had a client tell me, simply, “everything is a lot.” The snow is a lot. The darkness is a lot. The shopping, the presents, the travel, and the parties are a lot. The state of the world is a lot. The global crises (plural). The kids who can’t do a damn thing about […]

When my son was three-ish years old, he would regularly ask me, “Are we here, Mama?” He did so not in the way most kiddos do, not half an hour into a 14-hour car ride, but rather at the most unexpected moments: sitting on the floor stacking Legos, propped on my hip as I stirred […]