When Spiritual Language Becomes a Tool for Control 🙏 Tobias walked into my office carrying the kind of tension that makes your shoulders live somewhere near your ears. Within ten minutes, he’d explained his situation: his sister was making sexual […]
In the Therapy Room - Lola Adams
In the Therapy Room: The Masquerade of Laid-Back Living and the Emotional Scripts That Run Our Love Lives
The Performance of Lay-Back Living 😔 It’s a Tuesday evening in October, the kind where the light hits the Hudson at just the right angle to make the city look like it’s blushing. Saskia sits across from me in my […]
In the Therapy Room - Jas Mendola
In the Therapy Room: Grief-Driven Sabotage and the Invisible Structure of Prolonged Grief
The Pattern Nobody Talks About 🔄 Kymani sat in the closing bar, rain streaking the windows, holding a glass of water like it might disappear if he let go. Four years since his father died, and nothing had changed. Everything […]
In the Therapy Room - Samuel Hartwell
In the Therapy Room: Guilt, Emotional Framing, and the Weight of Uncomfortable Knowledge
A Confession in Three Parts 🪑 She arrived on a Tuesday afternoon with coffee that had gone cold somewhere between the parking lot and my office. Brooke—a marketing director at a mid-sized firm—sat on the edge of my couch the […]
In the Therapy Room - Sophia Rivera
In the Therapy Room: Career Regret and the Power of Reframing Past Decisions
The Problem With Trevor’s Problem 🧠 Trevor sat in my office doing that thing people do when they’re about to confess something they think disqualifies them from having real problems—he apologized for “wasting my time” before he’d even told me […]
Anxiety - Depression - healing - In the Therapy Room - Jas Mendola - Self Care - Self-Actualisation
In the Therapy Room: The Invisible Frames That Shape Our Mental Health
The Weight of Everything Unsaid 💔 Austynn sat across from me, stirring coffee that had gone cold an hour ago, eyes fixed on the table. This was the third session. Outside, rain fell with indifference. Inside, a young person was […]
Authenticity - Breakups - codependency - Heartbreak - Identity - In the Therapy Room - Monica Dean - Relationships
In the Therapy Room: Understanding Attachment Styles and the Pitfalls of Codependency
A Tuesday Afternoon in the Therapy Room 🪑 Bramwyn arrived on a Tuesday afternoon with the particular exhaustion of someone trying to solve a puzzle using pieces from someone else’s box. He wanted to understand his ex-partner—specifically whether she had […]
Abuse - codependency - Identity - In the Therapy Room - Melanie Doss - Relationships
In the Therapy Room: Internalizing Verbal Abuse and Rebuilding Self-Worth
The Invisible Wound: When Someone Else’s Words Become Your Thoughts 💔 Picture this: It’s 2 AM and you’re still awake, replaying a conversation from hours earlier. Your boyfriend said something that cut deep—really deep—and even though he apologized, his words […]
Anxiety - Identity - In the Therapy Room - Lola Adams
In the Therapy Room: Career Anxiety and the Paralysis of Self-Doubt
The Paralysis of Proximity 🔒 He sits across from me on a Tuesday evening in late October, laptop bag still slung across his chest like he might need to flee at any moment. Lyndon tells me he’s been staring at […]
Depression - Friendships - healing - Identity - In the Therapy Room - Lucian Blackwood - Personal Development - Self-Actualisation - Social Anxiety
In the Therapy Room: The Invisible Structures around Loneliness
You are not a passive recipient of circumstance. You are an active author of your becoming through the force of your will.