If you spend five minutes on the internet today, you might start to believe your behaviors and quirky habits are caused by a long list of mysterious diagnoses. Social media is overflowing with quizzes and captions meant to catch our attention and create unnecessary worry: Take this quiz to find out if you’re a narcissist. Here are five unexpected signs that you have multiple personalities. Here are the daily habits most often seen in psychopaths. By the time you finish scroll

Many people expect therapy and healing to feel comforting and peaceful. They think that once they start doing “the work,” they’ll finally feel calmer, more confident, and at peace. And sometimes that does happen. But more often, healing feels uncomfortable before a person feels at peace. One of the misconceptions I see is people assuming that discomfort means they’re doing something wrong. In reality, discomfort is often part of the process. When you begin changing long-stand

We all have those days when we just don’t want to do, well, anything. Perhaps you had a busy week, didn’t get much sleep the night before, or feel like you need a vacation. Every so often, taking the time to recharge and reset, can actually give you the boost that you need for the next while. However, there may be times when everything just feels like too much, and this feeling lasts for a while. Maybe you are struggling with depression or maybe you’ve just had a rough few w

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is often described in simple soundbites: “change your thoughts,” “do your homework,” and “follow the structure.” While there’s truth in those descriptions, they can flatten what is actually a nuanced, emotionally rich, and highly individualized therapy. Let’s take a deeper look at three persistent myths and what really happens beneath the surface. Myth #1: “CBT ignores emotions and just tells me my thoughts and behaviors are wrong” This myt

Have you ever felt like a fraud? Or that the praise other people give you doesn’t seem to match how you view yourself? We’ve all felt like this to some degree, and the higher our expectations of ourselves, the more likely we’ll be to feel this way. This experience is commonly referred to as “impostor syndrome.” While this phrase became popular over the past twenty years, it was coined by psychologists in the 1970s to describe the phenomenon of high achieving individuals who c