When Your Partner Won’t Acknowledge the Pain They Caused
Starving for empathy: When your partner gets angry at you… for being hurt by them.
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Don’t Pass Your Childhood Traumas Down to Your Kids
Most of us have some sort of trauma or dysfunction from our own childhoods. By understanding our own triggers, we can help break the cycle and not pass our trauma to our kids.
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The Burnout Fix That’s Been Sitting Next to You All Along
The most burned-out teams aren’t always the busiest ones. They’re the loneliest ones.
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5 Self-Care Habits Every College Student Needs to Thrive
College asks a lot of students. Prioritizing these five wellness habits—sleep, food, movement, community, and awe—can help them grow and succeed.
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What Happens After the Rescue?
Rescue is only the beginning. New research reveals how helping can unintentionally retraumatize survivors of sex trafficking, and what healing truly requires.
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Flood the Zone: How Misinformation Makes Truth Feel Impossible
Flooding the zone isn’t about making you believe one lie. It is about overwhelming the information environment until truth itself feels impossible. The most effective propaganda does not always tell you what to believe. Sometimes it leaves you unsure whether belief is possible at all. A few years ago, I wrote about information pollution and…
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1980s Culture Wars: Psychological Harm
As a kid who started playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1979, I remember watching Tom Hanks play a character who goes insane from playing a TTRPG in Mazes and Monsters. This movie was broadcast in 1982, the same year that Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop warned America about the danger of video games. Which…
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible. “Day by day I am approaching the goal which I apprehend but cannot describe,” Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770–March 26, 1827) wrote to his boyhood friend, rallying his own resilience as he began losing his hearing. A year…
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Can Online Therapy Help Trauma? A Gentle Look
Can online therapy help trauma? Understand how a safe, flexible therapeutic space can support healing gently, at a pace that feels right for you today.
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The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life
On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while next to me a grown man in a VR headset spent six hours ascending the levels of a video game. It occurred to me that what I was doing between them — reading — was also a…
