I often have conversations, both professionally and personally, where people ask me for my opinion of “why kids have changed” or “what is the ‘problem’ with kids these days.”  These are such hard questions to answer because kids have not changed, the world has.  And the ‘problem’ is that we…

Anxiety is the worst, isn’t it?  The feeling of your heart beating out of your chest, difficulty breathing, a heat wave that washes over you and that boulder that takes up residence in the pit of your stomach.  In my experience, anxiety is quite physically uncomfortable in your body and…

When I was a senior in high school, I was at cheer practice one day.  I was working on a particular tumbling pass that was a pretty big deal for me when I landed on my ankle wrong.  Practically sidewise, in fact, and I remember hearing a really really loud…

We talk a lot about the concept of the inner child.   There are books written about it, meditations to follow to find yours, and plenty of jokes and references to the idea all over the media.   If you have been to therapy, there is a significant chance that you have…

If you have not read Start with Why by Simon Sinek, I highly recommend.   To be honest, anything by Simon Sinek is totally worth your time, but this is the one I am currently reading.  He discusses it with much more grace, but the general idea is that if you…

If you know me, you know that I think Brene Brown is a freaking genius.  I hold that opinion for many reasons, but a big one is because of how she defines shame because I think it is so on point.  She says, “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or…

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the idea of structured disengagement with regards to technology.  What I mean when I say that is actually making the choice to engage in my relationships without technology.  For example, when you walk into a restaurant with a group of friends…

Shame is such an interesting emotion.  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I often find myself lost in it.  It doesn’t necessarily matter what I am doing, it just happens out of nowhere that I have this intense feeling of not being enough for whatever I am…

So, I have been training for a half marathon.  I am still not sure exactly what motivates me for this goal, but I am doing it.  I have been working fairly diligently since the beginning of the year and I am not a runner, so it has been slow going. …

I believe that communication is the cornerstone of any healthy and functional relationship.  In relationships that I am not able to share openly and honestly or give and receive challenges to thoughts in an effective way, I truly don’t feel like I can be my whole authentic self.  This is…