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The psychology behind why successful people suck at asking for help
The psychology behind why successful people suck at asking for help

I'm a therapist. I literally make a living helping people work through their struggles and encouraging them to seek support when they need it. I preach about the importance of connection and vulnerability on a daily basis.

And yet, two weeks ago, I found myself staring at a half-finished speaking outline at 11 PM, paralyzed by the thought of asking anyone to look at it.

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What Ted Lasso taught me about being a better human
What Ted Lasso taught me about being a better human

I'm a therapist who helps people be better humans. Last week, I caught myself being absolutely terrible to a stranger on TikTok.

For three minutes, my brain ran a completely different commentary than what was happening on screen.

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The friendship mistakes we don't see coming (until it's too late)
The friendship mistakes we don't see coming (until it's too late)

Alice (name changed) was the rare friend who could share a tiny dorm room with you and somehow make it feel spacious. She was my ride-or-die, my automatic plus-one to everything, the person I just assumed would be standing next to me at my wedding someday. I remember countless nights where we’d stay up late talking about anything and everything. You know that friend who feels like family? That was Alice.

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A Therapist’s Guide to Not Losing Your Sh*t When the World Feels Like a Mess
A Therapist’s Guide to Not Losing Your Sh*t When the World Feels Like a Mess

If your nervous system has been running on caffeine and existential dread lately, congratulations. You’re responding appropriately to current events. If you've been doomscrolling until your brain feels fried, quietly carrying this simmering sense of dread every time you glance at the headlines, or just feeling the urge to stay in bed all day to hide from it all, that’s 100% correct. It’s a lot.

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The Right to Feel Safe
The Right to Feel Safe

When I was living in Los Angeles, I didn’t realize how much of my time I spent feeling afraid. Like so many women, I was taught to lace my car keys between my fingers like little Wolverine claws because apparently, if someone attacks me walking to my car at night, I’m supposed to stab them with my Honda keys and hope for the best.

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I’m a Therapist. Here’s 6 Things I’ve Learned You Might Be Doing to Sabotage Your Joy
I’m a Therapist. Here’s 6 Things I’ve Learned You Might Be Doing to Sabotage Your Joy

I’m a therapist and let me admit something, after 15 years of sitting with people in their most vulnerable, painful chapters of life, I’ve learned most of the misery in my life has come from me.

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Think You Suck at Mindfulness? Read This
Think You Suck at Mindfulness? Read This

When I first discuss mindfulness/meditation with clients, a few weeks in I almost always get the same response:

“I’m just not good at this”
“I suck at meditating”
“My mind constantly wanders, don’t think I’m cut out for it”

And honestly, whenever they say this, I want to hug them. Because SAME.

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Feeling lost lately? Read this.
Feeling lost lately? Read this.

Last week, I could not focus for the life of me. I scrolled, I stared into my fridge even when I wasn’t hungry, I walked on my walking pad and stared at my computer screen. Cycle, rinse, repeat, yet this unsettled feeling in my chest and stomach, and this weird shaky feeling that you couldn’t see but I could feel would NOT go away.

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May Is for more than flowers 
May Is for more than flowers 

May always feels like a hopeful month. The daylight invites us to enjoy dinner outside, flowers are out here main-character-energy-ing all over the place (hello cherry blossoms and jacarandas), and the people I pass by on the street even seem more cheerful. Heck, London in May feels like a completely different place than it did in December! 

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What if you don’t have a “thing”?
What if you don’t have a “thing”?

I used to think there was something wrong with me because I didn’t have “a thing” like I saw so many other kids had.
You know the type:

  • The kid who picked up a camera at age 5 and knew they’d be a photographer.

  • The one who always wanted to be a doctor and actually became one.

  • The one obsessed with hair who became a hairstylist.

Meanwhile, I wanted to be everything from a news anchor to President of the United States to a therapist-slash-writer-slash-coffee-shop-owner.

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We explore what wellness looks like in the therapy office and beyond.

We believe that being healthy is a mind, body, and soul practice.

We believe that love is essential, that relationships are the greatest source of health and healing, and that people like you and me have the power to make a real and impactful change in our world.

We prefer to be warm people over cool people.

We believe we have the power to hold space for one another.

We believe that overcoming our fears makes for the best kind of life.

We believe that enjoying life should happen everyday - not just weekends, or in two weeks of vacation a year.

We search and sometimes fight for the small moments of joy and delight that bring balance to our active lives, often spent serving others.

We advocate for self-care in all forms, including therapy, long coffee dates with friends, and dark chocolate.

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We believe that more often than not, anything we do is best done together. That’s why Exploring Therapy exists.

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