Journal

You catch yourself doing the exact thing your parent did — the tone of voice you swore you'd never use, the emotional shutdown you watched from the other s

Monday you handled a crisis at work, comforted a friend, navigated a difficult conversation with your mother, and cooked dinner. You felt capable. Present.

You've been to the doctor. Maybe the ER. They checked your heart — EKG, blood work, maybe a stress test. Everything came back normal. And you felt relieved

Do I love them? You've asked yourself this fourteen times today. You've analyzed the way you felt when they walked in the room. You've compared it to the w

Someone has called you emotionally unavailable. Maybe a partner, maybe a therapist, maybe a friend who got tired of talking to your pleasant, competent, sl

You don't avoid people. You just don't need them the way everyone else seems to. You have friends, you date, you function beautifully in the world. But whe

There's a difference between guilt and shame, and the difference runs your life. Guilt says: I did something bad. Shame says: I am bad. Guilt is transact

For every physical thing your body does — the tightness, the fatigue, the ache that medicine can't explain — there are two dimensions. The first is medica