Overwhelmed? Understandable. Demands for our time, focus, and energy are constantly increasing, and it's easy to get pulled beneath the waves. Wanna know some of the culprits keeping you under? 🚫Hyperfocus on doing every task perfectly 🚫Shaming yourself for not doing the task sooner / better 🚫Questioning what's wrong with yourself for not being able to get started on things that need to get done 🚫Believing you're the only one struggling to get things done These are though

Somebody asked me once what anxiety felt like. The textbook description is that anxiety feels like dread or impending doom, accompanied by physical symptoms such as a racing heart, shortness of breath, sweating, trembling, feeling weak, or difficulty sleeping. Sound familiar? I find that definition helpful, to be sure, but it is impersonal. My brain lives in metaphors and visuals. For me, anxiety feels like a corkscrew in my chest, spinning and tightening with every thought c

I thought I knew burnout. At one point in my life, I was working three jobs while taking enough college credits to qualify as double-full-time. I’ve worked in community mental health and in an adolescent inpatient facility. For years, I’ve run my private practice completely solo—no biller, no administrative assistant—all while being the primary parent to my children. It turns out, even all of that had not produced true burnout. How do I know? Because last year, I really hit t

Imagine this: you’ve been with your therapist for approximately 47 minutes. It has been a decent session, you have discussed your week and some of your more manageable struggles, and even discussed strategies to practice addressing them this week. You finally feel comfortable. That comfort emboldens you to disclose something deeper, more personal. You can’t hold it in any longer, so you share this deeply meaningful, perhaps wounded part of yourself with your therapist. For ap