Dictionary.com defines mental health as the psychological “well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary demands of life”. Satisfactory adjustment to society and the ordinary demands of life. The day after Trump was elected, I sat...
We often think about responsibility as something heavy; a burden we know we ought to bear because, “it’s the right thing to do”. We also seem to set responsibility up as the opposite of freedom; “I wish I could drop everything and fly off to Mexico...
One of the most common causes of suffering that I witness as a psychotherapist is the belief that life is supposed to be easy, and that people are supposed to be happy most of the time. When life is hard, or people experience themselves as more identified with feeling...
