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The Small Glimmer of Resistance
Sometimes healing begins in the most uncomfortable places — in that sharp flicker of resistance when someone challenges the way we’ve always seen ourselves or the world. I call it the small glimmer of “fuck you.” It’s not cruelty, but disruption, and often it’s the first crack in the walls we’ve built around our lives.
On the Obsession with Progress
I’ve noticed how often we measure ourselves against an invisible standard of “progress.” Patients worry they’re not changing fast enough, or that circling the same themes means they’re failing. But therapy isn’t a straight climb upward. Growth is messy, cyclical, and often quiet. What looks like stasis is sometimes deep integration. Repetition isn’t failure—it’s how we turn experience into meaning.
I Am Not Separate From This Work
Being a therapist doesn’t mean I have it all figured out. I walk through the same fire as those I sit with—grief, doubt, fear, love, and resilience. This work doesn’t put me above anyone; it transforms me alongside them.
We All Just Want to Be Seen
We all long to be truly seen—not judged, not sized up, but witnessed for who we are. Yet in the busyness of life, it’s easy to feel invisible, unheard, or misunderstood. This reflection explores the universal ache to belong, the ways we hide or perform to protect ourselves, and the healing power of allowing ourselves—and others—to be fully seen.
Existentialism, Simply: How to Find Meaning When Life Has No Script
Frankl, the creator of Logotherapy, explains that survival is based on meaning and that the absence of meaning is attributed to the vast array of mental health concerns which individuals can experience, such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Fundamental elements of human existence involve pain, guilt and death or as Frankl termed it, the Tragic Triad . Logotherapy promotes that individuals embody a Tragic Optimism, that is, despite what they are faced with, their stance or attitude towards the experience can dramatically change their interpretation of the experience. An individual who struggles to embody this optimism instead suffers and becomes stuck in what Frankl termed as an Existential Vacuum
Grief
I’ve come to understand that true gratitude, joy, and beauty are only fully realized when we allow ourselves to crawl into the hidden spaces of grief, to kneel beneath its weight and sit with its darkness. It is in this descent that we learn the paradox of sorrow—that only by facing our deepest losses can we truly understand what it means to live.
