I have two pieces of good news: 1. Your emotions are temporary. 2. You have the power to shift your emotional state. Learning to shift your emotional state can be life-changing. It’s also one of the most important practices to master on the road to becoming your best self.

As a therapist, I’m really glad our culture is coming around to the idea that we could all use some mental health support from time to time. If you’re thinking about starting therapy, here are 6 tips to help you make the most of it.

The more time I took for my practice, the easier it was for me to be the person I wanted to be in the world: loving, productive, present.

Here are some tips for how to support someone who really needs help right now—and hold on to yourself in the process.

I’ve spent years cultivating the “perfect” coping skills. Creating a strong emotional support system. Building a career that makes me feel purposeful and smart. Putting together a balanced exercise routine of yoga, cardio, and weights. Developing exceptionally healthy eating habits. And then I had a baby.

Though the results aren’t usually instantaneous or obvious, the effects of sitting with your emotions tend to show up in powerful ways.

Ultimately, letting go of my exit strategy allowed me to re-enter my life and figure out what I needed to do to create the kind of future I wanted. 

What is the "tyranny of the should" and how do we let go of it?

If we’ve learned anything over the past year and a half, it’s that our relationships matter. Even if we’re introverts, even if we like to spend time alone, we still need other people to feel happy and satisfied in our lives

If you’re suffering from depression, taking baby steps like this may not sound like much, but the truth is, it’s one of the best things you can do to ease depression. Ready to try it?

If we grow up believing we’re responsible if anything upsetting happens at home—or in moments when we don’t get the emotional support we need—we gradually lose pieces of our sense of self-worth.

We make up stories and false beliefs about ourselves to support the idea that there’s something wrong with us. And we tell ourselves this is why we’re not getting what we need emotionally. For example: “I’m not loveable” or “I’m not good/smart/talented enough.” Over time, we develop coping mechanisms to back up our false beliefs.

What can we do to calm the voice of the negative mind? It starts with learning to see it for what it is—and understanding that it’s only one part of who we are.

You might think of depression as feeling sad or down. But depression isn’t just about experiencing dark emotions. Over on the blog, I’m sharing with you what depression is and how to ease it.

While there have been other crisis and emergency situations in our lifetime, the coronavirus is unlike any that we’ve experienced. And it’s normal to feel unprepared and unsure of what to do.

Over on the blog, I’m sharing with you the practices I’m implementing during this time, in order to feel more at ease.

With young people taking longer to settle down and get married these days, I’m now seeing more and more clients who are feeling lonely and concerned if they will ever find a relationship that fulfills them.

I, too, know how this feels. I felt alone for a lot of my 20’s.

But then I had an epiphany that essentially changed my outlook on how my life was unfolding.

I just finished reading Mark Manson’s book, “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck,” and one of the points he talks about is “The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”