Let's Talk: Why Intimacy Changes Somewhere between the sleep-deprived haze of a new baby, the identity vertigo of retirement, a diagnosis that rearranges your priorities overnight, a move that uproots your whole nervous system, or the slow hormonal plot twist of menopause or aging, a lot of couples quietly stop
Loving Your Adult Children and the Art of Setting Boundaries Somewhere along the way, the job description changed. You spent two decades being the one who set the rules, made the decisions, and had the (kind of) final word. And then, almost overnight, your child became an adult, and every
When Life Transitions Open the Door to Anxiety and Depression Let's start with an unpopular opinion: not all stress is bad. In fact, some of the worst anxiety I see in session isn't always caused by tragedy at all; it's caused by good things. A promotion. A move to a
Walking through a narrow space Feeling Stuck. A Common Shared Experience There seems to be a particular kind of frustration that comes from feeling stuck. Not devastated. Not in crisis. Just stuck. You know something needs to change, but you can't seem to move. You spend hours thinking
Photo: Tyler Nix “When you get, give. When you learn, teach.” Maya Angelou. How do you want to be remembered? What are the true highlights of your life you want people to remember? At a meditation retreat, one of the exercises they gave us was to reflect on
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,
Photo: Margarita, Another cycle of beauty. "When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will