It’s no surprise that I ask questions in therapy. Most of the time my curiosity is such a natural part of the conversation that it’s just a quiet backdrop. It’s present, but not really thought about.
Sometimes, however, curiosity feels like a completely different thing...
In some ways, writing a blog feels almost like the opposite of the work I do in therapy.
When we sit together and talk, or when I’m engaged in play therapy with a child, often the most important thing I do is ask questions. Asking questions is part of what creates room for your experience, your thoughts, and your feelings to come out...
Joana Macy is neither a therapist nor a psychologist. Now approaching her nineties, she’s been a scholar and activist for over five decades. Her work revolves around Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology...
Starting therapy can be a daunting task.
It can be anxiety-provoking, overwhelming, and heavy with ambivalence. The first step on its own is hard enough: how do you even find a therapist?
"It's usually the ones like me with bucket loads of friends, always on the go, so outgoing, who are the most depressed."
-Lauren Rowney
The way we understand the world is through stories and narratives. These stories inform what we see when we look at the world, how we interpret interactions, how we make decisions, how we react emotionally to events...
Power struggles are frustrating, and when they happen in public they can be embarrassing as well.
I've seen a number of families that through either temperament or training (and by training I mean our own upbringings) find themselves in power struggles with their kids more often than they’d like...
Recently, Gretchen Reynolds at the New York Times reported on research that looked at the brain-altering benefits of mindfulness meditation. The study compared two groups of stressed-out, unemployed job seekers...