I recently stumbled across a video from 2020 during lockdown when I was juggling clients remotely and piecing together a childcare plan for my kids. Feeling a mixture of lethargy and “leave me alone world” I had 30 minutes in my office before I had to be back on parenting duty. Parents around the globe were dealing with the same thing (and …
Tag: psychotherapy
Staying In The Discomfort
I won’t lie. Living in the US is feeling quite intense right now. I was just about adapting to the new realities of Covid when the Black Lives Matter movement exploded. And of course the very fact that I experienced it in that way speaks volumes about my white privilege – for so many people it’s something they’ve been grappling with day in and …
Nothing That Bad happened. What’s Wrong With Me?
I remember years ago wondering why I was so messed up when nothing “that bad” had actually happened to me. This a question a lot of my clients face when they look back at their childhoods. Ok, their childhoods weren’t perfect by any stretch, but in the context of world problems they weren’t that horrific either. So why all the struggle with anxiety, depression, relationships …