Is Something Missing in Your Therapy?

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao,” wrote Lao Tzu in Tao Te Ching more than 2,500 years ago, capturing a paradox that still resonates today. Our deepest experiences of meaning, awe, and transcendence often resist language. Yet the fact that spiritual and existential concerns are difficult to articulate does not […]

Missing the Children I Never Had

I miss the children I never had. I was never pregnant. I never miscarried. There is no medical chart, no ultrasound photo folded into a drawer. And yet, there are two girls I have known for quite some time—two girls conceived in my mind. I’m not exactly sure when this little mental game started. Maybe […]

We’re Missing the Good News About Youth Mental Health

Let’s play a word-association game. If I say “youth Mental health,” what’s the next word that comes to mind? It’s probably “crisis.” For over a decade, researchers, policymakers, teachers, parents, and the media have been raising the alarm about the rising prevalence of anxiety, depression, and emotional distress among young people. Most alarmingly, the suicide […]

Eating Disorders and Trauma: The Missing Link

Eating disorders are among the deadliest and fastest-growing Mental health conditions, yet they remain largely misunderstood. Popular portrayals reduce these illnesses to superficial stereotypes, obscuring their true complexity and hindering meaningful intervention. Eating disorders are complex, brain-based illnesses that affect up to one in ten people over their lifetime. They manifest through behaviors such as […]