All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. Here’s how you know if someone is your friend. You can tell them bad news and they’ll listen. They won’t tell you why, you know, you’re stupid and why that thing happened to you and how something worse happened to them once, and…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. What is depression exactly? Well, it’s a preponderance of negative emotion, which seems self-evident. Depressed people are sad and frustrated and disappointed and grief-stricken. They have low self-esteem. They tend to feel all negative emotions simultaneously in a manner that’s paralyzing. If you…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. I know this sounds counterintuitive, but the neuroscience is unambiguous, and once you understand it, the pattern of self-sabotage that has followed you your entire life will finally make complete sense. The first reason is that your brain’s primary drive is not achievement,…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. If you have ADHD or some sort of neurodivergent profile, your brain, when it becomes stressed, is probably starved for one of these 5 things, and no, it’s not more caffeine or supplements, but a lot easier than that. First up is “Unstructured…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. They trudged into my therapy office, slumped down at opposite ends of my sofa, and glared at each other. This professional couple in their 50s had yet another fight on the way to their appointment. In theory, it was a continuation of something…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. Emotional disconnection can subtly happen over time in a relationship.Learn to recognize the signs so that you can reconnect and rebuild your relationship. Lack of Emotional Connection in Relationships: Signs of Emotional Disconnection You may find yourself yearning for that deep emotional connection that once…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. To whom do you owe an apology? Before you read on, take a moment. Say their name aloud. Now, answer the question: why do you feel the need to apologize? A strong, meaningful apology goes a long way in repairing major and minor rifts in…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. Love, Light, and Truth: The Non-Fragmenting Principle Across spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions, certain words appear again and again: Love.Light.Truth. They are often used poetically.Sometimes vaguely.Occasionally dogmatically. But within a transpersonal clinical context, these are not ideals to aspire to—they are indicators of…
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. In most forms of therapy, the goal is to strengthen the self. To build identity.To stabilize narrative.To create continuity across time. This is necessary—up to a point. But there is a threshold beyond which further strengthening of the self does not resolve suffering….
All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. There are moments in psychological work when the illusion does not simply veil reality—it fractures. In these states, the individual is no longer identified with a single, coherent narrative self, but appears to be inhabited by competing structures. Thoughts feel inserted. Emotions feel…