Review of The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
Humans need problems of some sort, apparently. When we solve the problems we have, we look for new ones. If we cannot find ones of similar severity, we get involved…
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May 15, 2024
Three pillars of a nourishing relationship (part 3): individual healing
This post is the text of a video essay I've hosted on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/0cvMSEHhAlE Breakup wake ups Breakups can be especially sad when we’ve put a lot of work…
March 27, 2024
Cold water immersion in nature: a therapist’s experience and reflections (Part 1)
This post is the text of a video essay that I made. For most people, I would recommend watching/listening to the video instead of reading the post: https://youtu.be/IE1Jwhhy1iY Taking the…
July 20, 2023
Cutting the strings that bind us (The Free Oscar Project)
https://youtu.be/_h-Pz-HXL-c The String Oscar first introduced himself to me on a beautiful sunny day in the early and snowy winter. I was struck by how close he came to me,…
February 11, 2023
Imago couples therapy
“When we were babies, we didn’t smile sweetly at our mothers to get them to take care of us. We didn’t pinpoint our discomfort by putting it into words. We…
November 18, 2022
Psychodynamic therapy
“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.” Aristotle Psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalytic therapy are sometimes used interchangeably, as there is more overlap than difference between them. One…
November 14, 2022
Resources for help overcoming addiction
Books In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (Gabor Mate) https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?asin=B004ZZMBH6&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_TSSR109NGTRWRPWN84TE&tag=metaforest-20 Dopamine Nation (Anna Lembke) The Craving Mind (Judson Brewer) https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?asin=B06VSPVRQQ&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_PDQE8CPGV1K7XMAW5GEH&tag=metaforest-20 Videos 2021-08-16 | Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction…
September 9, 2022
How to stop ruminating
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”Abraham Maslow Rumination, the way…
April 15, 2022
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that was originally coined and created by Michael White and David Epstein from Australia and New Zealand respectively, and has been developed and…
March 22, 2022
“It won’t be the same”
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible in us be found.”Pema Chodron Many people come to a therapist…
February 13, 2022