When you try to talk about how disconnected you feel Let's start with a story that many of my clients recognize and share in relationship therapy: you're lying in bed next to someone, inches away, and yet you feel like you're calling out from the bottom of a well. You
Living with an Emotionally Unavailable Partner You know the feeling. You share something vulnerable, something that took a little courage to say out loud, and your partner responds with... a joke. Or a shrug. Or "I don't know, I guess I'm fine?" while their eyes drift to their phone. You're
Image created with AI Have you ever found yourself replaying a conversation hours or even days later, wondering if you said the wrong thing? Have you ever found yourself in a spiral of self-doubt for hours or even days, wondering if you’d make the right decision? Or
Photo by cottonbro studio "In my early professional years, I was asking the question: How can I treat, cure, or change this person? Now, I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal
Photo: Priscilla du Prees Most of us want to be heard and understood. Talking about our thoughts and feelings with a supportive and non-judgemental person outside our circle of friends and family makes us feel better. Talking about your life experiences, perspectives, and emotions can help you resolve
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Photo by Margarita, 2011 “Refuge for a little bug.” Therapy is cool. It’s about learning a new life skill. I was
Photo: Margarita, 2019 “Wings are for landing.” “The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully,