Adult relationships with parents can be complicated, even when there is love, care, and history between people. A parent’s comment may seem small from the outside. A remark about your clothes, your home, your parenting, your work, your relationship, your schedule,...
Boundaries with adult parents can feel especially complicated. A person may understand, logically, that they are allowed to have limits, privacy, preferences, and emotional space. They may know they are an adult with their own life, relationships, home, values,...
Note: In this blog, I use the word “parent,” but this can also refer to a main caregiver, guardian, grandparent, or another important adult who had a significant influence on how you learned to think, choose, and trust yourself. This blog is not written for...
Self-trust is one of the most meaningful foundations of emotional wellbeing. It influences how a person makes decisions, honors their needs, sets boundaries, responds to relationships, and moves through uncertainty. When self-trust feels steady, a person may feel more...
Trust is often spoken about as though it is a conclusion we reach through logic. We gather information, evaluate another person’s behavior, and decide whether they are trustworthy. While thought and judgment are certainly part of the process, trust is not created...
In many relationships, love is not absent. It is there in the effort, the concern, the loyalty, the reaching, the small gestures, and the desire to feel close. Yet love can still feel strangely difficult to experience when one or both partners have a hard time...
Love is not only about how we give. It is also about how we receive. Some people deeply want closeness, partnership, affection, reassurance, and emotional safety. They want to feel chosen, supported, understood, and cared for. Yet when love is actually offered,...
Every so often, a client will say something along the lines of, “I know this is not just career counseling, but it feels like career therapy.” That description has always felt fitting to me, because career concerns are often connected to much more than the job itself....
This blog post is not for someone who is newly grieving the end of a romantic relationship and needs time to heal. It is also not for someone who is actively dating and simply has not yet met a person who feels like the right fit. Someone who feels genuinely content...
Hyper-independence is often talked about in relationships and personal life, but it can also show up in powerful ways at work. It can shape how a person manages responsibility, communicates with colleagues, responds to stress, receives feedback, asks for help, and...
