Reflections
Writing on therapy, relationships and being human.
Therapy often begins with the questions that are difficult to answer: Why do I keep repeating this? Why does this relationship affect me so deeply? Who am I becoming? What happens when the ways I learned to survive no longer serve me?
These reflections explore some of those questions through psychotherapy, relationships, identity, loss, culture and the complexity of being human.
Living Now
The Longest Day: Light, Shadow and the Courage to Remain
Today is the summer solstice: the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. A day when light lingers generously. A day that quietly reminds us that life is always moving, always changing, always becoming something else.
The Exhausted Self: Therapy in an Age of Endless Adaptation
There is a particular kind of exhaustion I am encountering more frequently in the therapy room that does not fit neatly into conventional diagnostic language. It is not always burnout in the traditional sense, nor is it reducible to anxiety or depression.
Where Life Unfolds: The Therapeutic Power of the Present Moment
James Baldwin once wrote, “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.” I find myself returning to this line again and again.
The Unseen Rhythm: Living with ADHD
ADHD has become a familiar word, but its lived experience often remains unseen. Beneath the labels and the language of productivity lies a quieter story: people trying to make sense of a mind that moves too fast, feels too much, and never quite lands.
Suicide Awareness Day: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Paradox in Between
Yesterday was Suicide Awareness Day. Across social media, in articles, and through deeply personal stories, I saw a wave of honesty, courage, and vulnerability.
How are we, really?
It's one of the simplest questions in the English language, and one of the most difficult to answer honestly.