Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
She’d been Tom’s wife for thirty-two years. She’d also been a project manager, a runner, a mother, a person with opinions about a lot of...
Read Article →She heard a lot of things in the weeks after her husband died. That he was in a better place. That everything happens for a...
Read Article →She’d gone to her first therapy session about grief mostly to satisfy her sister, who’d been asking for months. She hadn’t expected much. She’d expected...
Read Article →Her dog had slept at the foot of her bed every night for fourteen years. He’d been there through a divorce, a cross-country move, two...
Read Article →The question she couldn’t stop asking wasn’t the kind she could put into a sentence cleanly. It was more like a question underneath questions: whether...
Read Article →She was sixty-one years old. They’d been married for thirty-eight years. After the funeral, the house felt different in a way she couldn’t name at...
Read Article →Most people have heard of the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance , the framework is so embedded in our culture that...
Read Article →Many people who struggle with gaming dependency describe real life in similar terms: flat, colorless, slow, empty. Not temporarily , not just on days when...
Read Article →The previous article in this series made the case that gaming builds genuine, transferable skills , not as a consolation prize, but as an accurate...
Read Article →If you have spent years gaming heavily, you have probably absorbed a particular story about what that time means. The story usually runs something like...
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