This post is written during the shelter in place ordinances due to COVID-19. This virus has created a lot of panic and fear for many, and rightly so as the i...

I just finished watching the Netflix series Fat, Salt, Acid, Heat with Berkeley based Samin Nosrat. In an article* in The Guardian, she credits her Iranian u...

I want to validate not just your emotional experience of stress but your actual physical, neurological experience of stress. In the Ted talk clip below by Ma...

In a recent story* on NPR about Michelle Obama, she tells us: "...her guidance counselor at Whitney Young told her she wasn't 'good enough for the place [Pri...

In therapy it's not uncommon for people to talk about their personal failings or failures. Failure to: yield a job, pass a test, make a deadline, sustain a r...

With all the events in the news lately, how can one not worry about the future for one's self, family and safety and security? There is a real function to wo...