The Uninspired Mind You know that feeling when everything in your life is fine, but something still feels off? You know what you should be doing, but you just don’t feel like it. You’re not necessarily unhappy—you’re just not excited about anything. Maybe you’ve got a...
The Hidden Cost of Always Being the Strong One As a therapist, I’m used to people coming to me when they’re hurting and I’m happy to be there for them. But when one of my adult children was recently diagnosed with a condition that completely changed the way I saw our...
This week, I sat with a woman who was upset by a family member’s social media post that stated, “You don’t need to be perfect. I love & accept you as you are.” When I asked why she was bothered by this, she stated that the person who posted...
There’s an old psychology term that’s being used in a new way recently: “Insinuation Anxiety” Insinuation Anxiety: noun A worry that not agreeing with someone’s choices implies criticism of how they are managing pandemic life. — Counseling Today (November 2020)...
This past week, my husband had a business meeting he was looking forward to. He’s an inventor. A visionary who sees a need and then figures out how to solve for it. So when he met with a group of engineers and directors at a large corporation to present his...
Fault vs. Responsibility One of the hardest tasks of reaching “emotional adulthood” is learning to separate fault from responsibility. This is partly due to definitions that exist, which use the two words interchangeably. In the context of taking...
