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The Practice of Integration
There’s a funny line in Edward Scissorhands. Edward reaches out his hands—which are actually scissors—and says to Diane, the Avon lady, “I’m not finished.” That line always struck me as strangely emotional. I never quite understood why. Maybe it was the sadness in the way the character said it. Or maybe it made me wonder what it means to be finished—to be done, to be complete. [...]
The Tenderness of Ending
Making Space for What We Feel When Something Ends I've noticed that I am a little sad that summer is ending. It's a feeling not attached to anything that makes a ton of sense for me in the moment, but I'm noticing an external shift. The kids are going back to school. The traffic is changing. The rhythm of the city is shifting. And I find [...]
The Practice of Kindness
The longer I sit with the idea of kindness, the more difficult it becomes to separate it from love. Not the grand declarations of love. Not romance. Not even the love reserved for family and close friends. I mean the quieter form of love—the kind that recognizes our shared humanity. Perhaps kindness is simply love made visible. A warm smile. A patient response. A moment of [...]
The Power of Surrender
Why letting go isn't giving up—it's becoming fully present. The word surrender is often misunderstood. It evokes images of defeat. Of giving up. Of losing something essential. But I don't experience surrender that way. To me, surrender is the willingness to stop arguing with this moment. It doesn't mean we stop moving toward what matters. It doesn't mean we abandon goals or lose our agency. It means becoming [...]
The Wisdom of the Spiral: Why Healing Isn’t Linear
I've been thinking about how healing actually works, and one thing I keep coming back to is that healing isn't linear. It would be nice to move through something once and never have to encounter it again. But healing rarely unfolds that way. Instead, we find ourselves revisiting familiar territory—old anxieties, griefs, relationship patterns, and places of pain. And when that happens, it's easy to wonder: [...]
The Intelligence of Survival
We’re Not Broken—We’re Adapted “What if your symptoms are not signs of dysfunction—but evidence of how intelligently you adapted?” I often hear people describe themselves as “broken” or “dysfunctional.” And I understand why—it can feel that way when you’re anxious, shut down, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns you don’t fully understand. But clinically, I don’t experience people that way. I experience them as adapted. Each of [...]
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