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On Sports, Sex, Saunas: A Closer Look into Feeling Good in Our Relationship with Ourselves
Are you ready to start investing in yourself this summer? Discover how sports, sex, and saunas can help you feel good in your relationship with yourself.
On Befriending the Inner Critic
For some folks, the inner critic is loud and pervasive. For others, it is a mere annoyance, a pest, like a stubborn mosquito that just won’t leave you alone. Each of us has our own unique version–different scripts with different voice actors. (Tangentially, what if your inner critic had the voice of Morgan Freeman? Or David Attenborough? That would be something.)
For me, this topic hits close to home. I’ve walked through much of life with a pervasive and ruthless inner critic…
On Music & Self Care
After a long day all I really want to do is listen to music. It is an unmatched, easily-accessible form of self care that helps me to both move towards and away from my feelings.
On Smut Over Self-Help
Your soul does not need habits. Your soul needs play and imagination and pleasure!
Enter in what I hope to persuade you into reading more of: smut. You may have heard of smut because it’s a growing category of popularity in the Bookstagram and #BookTok areas of the internet.
On the Sunday Angries & Combating Perfectionism
Similar to the Sunday Scaries, the Sunday Angries is a series of judgmental thoughts and perfectionism around having wasted time. Read this blog from a therapist about combating perfectionism with a practice of beginning again.
On Valentine’s Day
Love, connection, friendship, romance, pleasure, and joy are worth so much more than a single holiday…There is room for love in every relationship, every action, and every day. Read on for an individual and couple therapist’s suggestions for 5 ways to honor love and romance this Valentine’s Day and learn about how these methods will support you.
On Rest: It's Many Facets & the Consequences Of Rest Neglect
Despite my frequent criticism of our capitalist society’s relentless pursuit of productivity and success I, too get caught up in the hustle. This has been a challenging year in our practice; one filled with growing pains and a great deal of transition. All of it has left me feeling exhausted and on the verge of burn-out (shout-out to my colleague Anna Kim who has coined the term “crispy” which we use to describe getting dangerously close to burning out)…In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of rest, how it connects to our mental health and well-being, and what we can do about it by drawing on the insights provided by Dr. Dalton-Smith.
On Living with Chronic Illness
Living with chronic illness can look like so many different things. Tonight, living with chronic illness feels lonely. Don’t get me wrong, I have an incredible support system of fellow disabled and non-disabled friends. I try my best to be vulnerable with others about the pain I’m in and the toll it takes on me. But right now, in the middle of the night, it feels pretty damn lonely.