A major career decision can feel as though it needs to be made quickly. You may be considering leaving a position, accepting a promotion, changing industries, returning to school, starting a business, or stepping away from a professional path that once felt right....
I come across functional depression often in career counseling. Sometimes people do not realize they may be experiencing depression until we begin looking more closely at their career choices, their level of fulfillment, and the ways they have felt unhappy or...
Major depressive disorder, often called MDD, major depression, or clinical depression, can affect far more than a person’s mood. It can change how they experience their body, relationships, work, thoughts, energy, and sense of connection to their own life....
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,...
