Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
It had been four years since her husband died. Her daughter, carefully, mentioned that she’d turned down every invitation for the past two years, that...
Read Article →Six weeks after her father died, her husband gently mentioned that she hadn’t left the house in nine days. She was shocked. The days had...
Read Article →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...
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