Sydney Kowalski: As adults, much of our lives becomes centered on what needs to get done. We spend so much time thinking about work, productivity, and what comes next, and so little time doing things that bring us enjoyment. Not to say adults never have fun anymore, but many of us become so focused on obligations that we slowly drift away from hobbies and activities we once loved. Play can help adults cope with stress, reconnect with themselves, foster creativity, and build meaningful connections with others. 

Adham Moustafa: A friend asks you about the outfit they're wearing. It looks good and everyone already confirmed it. Yet your friend hesitates on their choice, and you recognize the discomfort the outfit may cause them throughout the day. What happens when someone is brave enough to name that discomfort? 

Dina Borisova: Trauma coping often includes avoidance patterns that initially help people function, stay productive, or distance themselves from overwhelming emotions. While these strategies can feel adaptive in the short term, they may also keep trauma responses active by preventing deeper processing and integration over time. This post explores the research behind this and how healing can begin.

Wes Higgins: People with ADHD can struggle with close relationships because closeness without structure can turn messy fast. What keeps a relationship steady is not just how open you are. It’s also how well you manage limits. Without boundaries, intensity can run the show. This post explores the importance of boundaries, why they feel difficult to hold, and how therapy can help.

Lily Dean: If you have ever played a sport, watched a sport, or even just seen a Gatorade commercial, you know the script. The ultimate athletic virtue has been mental toughness for years and years. The harder you push, the more success you will find, or at least that is what the culture has told us. Most of us have internalized that message far beyond the field or the court. This post explores the healthier alternative that sustains people longer both in sport and in life.

Amanda LaMela: You deleted the text thread. You even told your friends, “No, seriously, I’m done.” Then two weeks later, something happened… An on-again, off-again relationship is not just one breakup followed by one thoughtful reunion. For many people, it becomes a repeated cycle of conflict, distance, reunion, and relief, followed by another rupture.

Brooke Levy: Most of the time taking care of a houseplant looks something like this: You find a pot that fits your space, you water it on whatever schedule works for you, you put it somewhere with decent light. You want it to grow. You're just not necessarily thinking about what it needs to grow fully. You're thinking about what fits the shelf. What you can manage. And the plant adapts. It grows to within the limits of its conditions.

Adham Moustafa: Everyone loves the person who is always smiling. They are the first to notice you walked in, the one who makes everyone laugh, the one who gets things done. It becomes easy to assume they are fine. But does anyone ever stop to question what motivates that? 

Amanda LaMela: Not all breakups are created equal. Some are painful but understandable. You grieve, you reflect, and eventually you integrate the experience. However, some breakups feel destabilizing in ways that are hard to describe. This blog post explores different breakup behaviors and why certain endings are uniquely destabilizing.

Dani Saliani: After appearing on a new podcast episode about the same subject, this post continues to explore the health benefits of two of our most spontaneous emotional responses: laughter and crying. Both offer similar health effects in terms of releasing cortisol and other stress hormones, but they offer different approaches to emotional processing. 

Brooke Levy: Somatic Experiencing (SE) is structured around restoring a sense of safety, control, and regulation in the body. But what does that actually look like in a therapy session? This post will break down how SE is typically practiced and why it’s so different from approaches that rely on retelling or reprocessing trauma through words alone.

Dina Borisova: Healing from childhood trauma, in a Psychodynamic sense, does not mean erasing the past or forgetting what occurred. Rather, healing involves transforming how trauma is held internally and relationally, so it no longer powers over one’s emotional life, identity, or relationships in rigid, or originally-defined ways. It can give you a chance to “re-write” these patterns, learned so long ago. This blog post explores how this therapy works and what you could be thinking about as you engage with it.

Anna Kelman: Grief is complicated. It's universal but also deeply personal. Part of that complexity comes from the many reasons we grieve. These feelings have existed as long as humans have, but now we face a new challenge: how do we do something as personal as grieving in the digital age, where we constantly share intimate details of our lives and are surrounded by photos, videos, and messages that remind us of what we've lost?

Lily Dean: "Vienna" by Billy Joel offers insight into a pressure many are feeling these days. We're living in a time where everyone's supposed to be hustling, optimizing, leveling up. There's always another goal, another version of yourself you're supposed to become. "Slow down, you're doing fine."

Alexandra Miceli: According to IFS, we all have ‘parts’ - parts that are not ‘bad’ or ‘broken’, but informative to who we are in the present. Each of us has a core self, that is calm, curious, and compassionate. IFS is not about getting rid of parts, it’s about being curious about them in order to understand why each part of us exists. This post looks at Hawkin’s favorite radio DJ, Robin Buckley, from an IFS viewpoint. Stranger Things spoilers included!