You pull into the driveway, put the car in park, and just sit there for a minute. Maybe ten. You’re not looking at your phone for anything urgent. You’re not doing anything, really, except failing to go inside. By the time you do walk through
Sorry to Bother You By Gardner McCullough, LCSW-C, Founder of Catalyst Counseling A report went around at the end of August that looked at more than 1.6 million work emails and counted how often people soften what they’re about to say. The softeners were everywhere.
Every year around this time the internet fills up with advice for parents about their kids’ back-to-school anxiety. Watch for sleep changes. Validate the feelings. Start shifting bedtime a week or two early. It is good advice and most of it is what I would
Nothing Really Happened to Me There is a sentence people say in a first session, usually about twenty minutes in, usually right after they have described something that took them years to survive. Nothing really happened to me. They will have just walked through eight
Here is a number worth sitting with: in survey after survey this year, nearly three in five Americans say no one truly knows them. Not three in five isolated people. Three in five of everyone, including the ones with full calendars, packed group chats, standing
