There is a quote from Carl Jung that really sticks with me: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” What he is getting at is that so much of what shapes how we feel, and act happens below the surface, stuff we...
“I just want to be happy.” I hear this all the time—from clients, friends, and honestly, I have said it myself. But when I ask what happiness actually means, most people pause. Is it joy? Peace? Freedom? Or just the absence of pain? For many of us who are...
Sometimes feelings don’t just sit in our head — they show up in our body. Tight chest, tense shoulders, heavy stomach, buzzing under your skin… emotions live there, quietly (or loudly), asking for our attention. When we’re overwhelmed, our first instinct is often to...
I became a parent a year ago, and I’m still figuring out how my new role as a mom fits into my role as a therapist. What I’ve noticed is that as therapists, we’re in a unique position in which we work with parents all the time to support children through different...
