When we begin to deconstruct our beliefs about anger and start to feel into what it is telling us, we find that it is actually an incredibly important and useful emotion. Anger tells us that something isn’t right—that something we value is at risk. Anger tells us when we need to take action or set a healthy boundary.

Is it difficult for you to create space for yourself that includes doing nothing at all or non-productive activities? Are you constantly thinking about the next task? These omnipresent capitalist values inevitably become entangled not only with self-worth, but also with self-criticism. Read on for tips to slow down and increase self-compassion.

As we prepare for the first holiday season under Covid-19 regulations, many folx are trying to sort out how to hold space for the tenderness they feel right now AND maintain some sort of connection with family members who voted in support of Trump’s discriminatory beliefs. You’ll find eight tips to help you take care of yourself while spending time (or on Zoom calls) with your conservative family members.

Are you allowed to ask your therapist questions? If so, what kind? During individual therapy sessions, my clients will often apprehensively (or apologetically) ask if they can ask me a question. It might be too personal, they say, or: I’m not sure if this is okay, but… What follows is more often than not a very genuine, understandable, normal, human question! Therapy provides an experience of what a healthy relationship can be.

When we have intimacy with other human beings, rushes of neurochemicals are delivered to these systems in our brain and immediately our hearts are filled with warmth and fulfillment. Being connected to others creates a feeling that (literally) soothes every layer of our being.

Anna Kim, one of our fabulous therapists, and founder Kaitlin Kindman, sat down to have a conversation about grief. We discuss how grief is portrayed in media and culture and how this makes you feel like you’re doing it wrong. The key to healing is in connecting with others who get it.

School could already be stressful without adding on the coronavirus! These 7 tips can help both teachers and students to manage school anxiety and support you to return to school during stressful times.

A lot of what I hear in grief work is something along the lines of: I feel like I’m not grieving right. It’s an idea that’s reflective of a lot of things about modern life and comparison culture, but I think there’s something unique in its application to loss.

That large, messy thing is grief. It’s a complex matrix of emotions. Sometimes, we feel as though we have followed the dead to another, hollow plane of existence, and sometimes we feel shockingly, electrifyingly alive.