As we prepare for the first holiday season under Covid-19 regulations, many folx are trying to sort out how to hold space for the tenderness they feel right now AND maintain some sort of connection with family members who voted in support of Trump’s discriminatory beliefs. You’ll find eight tips to help you take care of yourself while spending time (or on Zoom calls) with your conservative family members.

Are you allowed to ask your therapist questions? If so, what kind? During individual therapy sessions, my clients will often apprehensively (or apologetically) ask if they can ask me a question. It might be too personal, they say, or: I’m not sure if this is okay, but… What follows is more often than not a very genuine, understandable, normal, human question! Therapy provides an experience of what a healthy relationship can be.

When we have intimacy with other human beings, rushes of neurochemicals are delivered to these systems in our brain and immediately our hearts are filled with warmth and fulfillment. Being connected to others creates a feeling that (literally) soothes every layer of our being.

Anna Kim, one of our fabulous therapists, and founder Kaitlin Kindman, sat down to have a conversation about grief. We discuss how grief is portrayed in media and culture and how this makes you feel like you’re doing it wrong. The key to healing is in connecting with others who get it.

School could already be stressful without adding on the coronavirus! These 7 tips can help both teachers and students to manage school anxiety and support you to return to school during stressful times.

A lot of what I hear in grief work is something along the lines of: I feel like I’m not grieving right. It’s an idea that’s reflective of a lot of things about modern life and comparison culture, but I think there’s something unique in its application to loss.

That large, messy thing is grief. It’s a complex matrix of emotions. Sometimes, we feel as though we have followed the dead to another, hollow plane of existence, and sometimes we feel shockingly, electrifyingly alive.

Our cultures shape and shift us. They are a part of our background, history, and a source of our pride and inspiration in our everyday lives. There is a deep sense of belonging that is fulfilled when others see us for who we are and where we come from, in essence, understanding our cultures.

How are they even coping and managing to live their lives right now? These are heavy questions, but ones that so many of you are asking yourself during COVID-19. What an unprecedented sense of loss for you, and for everyone else. What you are feeling may be grief.