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Should therapists assess for alcohol use differently now that it has become increasingly clear that alcohol may be far more harmful than previously believed?

Strong grandparent bonds grow from respect, trust, and care. Engaging in small, thoughtful moments today can prevent the kind of distance that breaks hearts later.

A teenager recently asked me if eating disorders were contagious. The answer is more complicated, and more hopeful, than a simple no.

“We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago.” And yet we do go back, over and over. The tragic flaw of our…

Success and fulfillment do not always arrive together. Learn why high achievers can feel unfulfilled and how to build steadier meaning. The post Success and Fulfillment: Why High Achievers Can Still Feel Unfulfilled appeared first on https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog.

Not surprisingly, most sexual assaults on college campuses involve intoxication. One reason is obvious: an intoxicated person is vulnerable. Another reason for this is definitional: most (if not all) colleges have a policy that sexual activity with an intoxicated person is, by definition, sexual assault. While the practical and legal aspects of this are important,…

Research shows how breathing can impact the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to destress and increase happiness.

We’re drowning in digital “connection,” yet starving for real belonging. As loneliness and burnout rise, leaders need to help restore genuine human presence at work.

Historically, people used to hold each other through trauma. Today, we hurry past each other’s wounds, and trauma persists. Here’s how we heal.

Self-awareness can become the foundation for reconciliation, healing, and renewed intimacy between fathers and their young adult children.