Life Beyond Therapy

We’re in uncharted territory, brothers and sisters. None of us has ever lived through a pandemic before. And the news...

As I write this, the election is about a week away and I’m swimming in a sea of emotions: hope,...

I recently returned from a two-week road trip. I drove through Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon and California, mostly on...

I have long admired Stacey Abrams. When she lost the Georgia governor’s race to a very unethical election supervised by...

Are you feeling lonelier these days? Is the pandemic exacerbating those feelings? Luckily, the physical state of being alone has...

  When you’re having a meal with someone, it’s easy to say: “Please pass the salt.” You calmly ask for...

With COVID-19 hanging around so long, it’s tempting to believe that all-too-many aspects of daily life have changed. However, one...

“You know the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance?” asked Dr. Emily Landon, a coronavirus expert...

With COVID-19 spikes, quarantining, telecommuting, home schooling, unemployment, Trump’s latest stupidity, local businesses forced to shut down and an ever-present...

How do you talk about a global pandemic when you’re in the midst of it? And what can you —...

As things begin to “open up,” what about sex? When will that “open up”? I am not an epidemiologist, but...

These days, a lot of my conversations with clients and friends include talking about acceptable levels of risk (aka, “ALOR”)....

The title of this column was inspired by the novel “Love in the Time of Cholera,” written by Colombian author...

In a pandemic, our old ideas about how life works no longer apply. We don’t know when or how this...

If the pandemic is a huge, dark cloud, then where’s the silver lining? I am not a Pollyanna, but when...