Category: Mental Health Therapy
How Do You Know You’re Done with Therapy?
(Done for now, that is.) Reader Questions Is therapy the kind of thing where anyone can benefit from it, at any time in their life? ...
Why Bioenergetic Therapy Is a House Divided
It All Boils Down to One Surprising Thing First, a Quick History Lesson Dr. Wilhelm Reich, one of Freud’s inner circle of psychoanalysts, developed the ...
No, Your Body Doesn’t Keep the Score
It’s not just semantics—and it bears repeating. YOUR BODY DOESN’T KEEP THE SCORE — and the uncomfortable sensations in your body are not all “trauma.” ...
How Therapists Like Me Were Duped into Believing Polyvagal Theory
No one is exempt from the marketing game, not even psychotherapists. So, buyer beware. Let me begin by admitting that I, too, was under the ...
Meditation and Mindfulness, Demystified
with 21st-century science Climbing on the mindfulness bandwagon is hard not to do these days. Meditation has gotten so popular that you can’t really ignore ...
3 Keys to Unlocking Your Mental Health Goals
If you’re anything like me, you like to do things efficiently. Why should leveling up your mental health be any different? Route #1: Talk therapy ...
Psst: There’s no such thing as an emotion
Finally, make some meaning out of the sensations in your body Can you keep a secret? Emotions aren’t real. Even more mind-blowing: That’s actually good ...
Everything Your Therapist Says About the Nervous System is DEAD WRONG
Let’s ditch the myths in favor of some hard science. The other morning, I was scrolling on social media when I ran across a post ...
Is “Somatic Experiencing®” Psychotherapy…Or a Cult of Personality?
Is There a Place for Mysticism in Body-Based Therapy? Let’s unpack some utter nonsense I noticed in the New York Times article “Want to Fix ...
Mental Health, Made Simple
Mental health is less complicated than you think—and it’s all about energy Warning: This is a long post. Stick with it, though, and you’ll know ...
