Blog
Fertility
Fertility, grief, and hope
Difficulty conceiving is often carried in private — through treatment, through loss, through a first trimester nobody is told about, and through grief and hope that can exist at the same time.
Sleep
Safe enough to sleep
Why insomnia is rarely only a sleep problem — the two-way relationship between sleep and mental health, and why falling asleep asks a person to stop standing guard.
Self-image
How shame survives
Why shame outlasts the circumstances that produced it — the difference between guilt and shame, and what a systematic review of 25 studies suggests about how durable self-image can be.
Parenting
Parenting is learned more than once
Each stage of a child's life asks something different of a parent — the identity shifts that come with that, and the mix of feelings that tends to arrive even when things are going right.
Wellness
What is a wellness plan — and where does therapy fit?
What wellness actually means, why plans are so hard to keep, and the three pillars I return to most: relationships, meaningful work, and sleep.
Attachment
What your attachment style has to do with physical pain
Five questions about my doctoral research — a systematic review of 29 studies on how early relationships shape the experience of chronic pain.