When Adult Children Don’t Go “No Contact”
The overlooked psychology of remaining in difficult relationships and choosing healthy enough over estrangement.
We Love Complex Villains. We Struggle With Complex Parents
There is a gap between the complexity we extend to fictional characters and to the people who raised us.
The Baby Is Here. So Is Everyone Else
On becoming a new parent with your own parents around.
When Your Baby Has A Baby
Finding your place in a family that just reorganized itself. Part 1: The grandparent experience.
Let’s talk about what happened: A guide for the adult child revisiting their childhood
What it takes to speak to your parents about childhood without blame, labels, or therapy speak.
The nervous system era of therapy-speak
Why our favourite neuroscience phrases might be keeping us from real self-understanding.
Why we need a harm reduction approach to AI use for therapy and emotional companionship
AI is becoming a go-to for emotional support—but banning it won’t work. Instead, we need a harm reduction approach: guide safer use, add guardrails, and meet people where they are.
AI, agreeability, and the loss of therapeutic friction
As AI becomes more agreeable and affirming, we risk losing the productive tension that drives growth.
Stockpiling emotions: The other kind of hoarding
Emotional hoarding can pull us out of the present and create false comfort, sometimes leaving us more unsettled in the end.
The problem with pretty quotes about apologies
Exploring the nuanced reality behind apologies, forgiveness and expectations — and how blindly following self-help mantras can sometimes cause more harm than good.