She Seems Fine
Olympian Katie Uhlaender’s story reveals how composure becomes an invisible demand, and what happens when a hard-won strength no longer fits its environment.
What You Do When Your Mother Visits
A bottle of Champagne, a mother and son, and the small acts of care that repair relationships, and continue shaping us long after they are given.
Decorate Reality
What a comedian, Robin Williams, and my Irish uncle taught me about what laughter can and can't heal.
Felt and Filed
However well you know someone, there is almost always another layer underneath. Something they have been carrying that you have not yet thought to ask about.
The Case for Firsthand Language
I have to fill you in on my week, my client Hillary said. Not much happening at work. But OMG my friends. The pickleball drama. I had everyone over for bagels and Champagne on Saturday before Porch Fest. It was…
What Your Language Is Doing Without You
Why the vocabulary you reach for automatically, below awareness, is shaping a self-concept you never chose. A clinical look at language, identity, and the cost of imprecision.
When Earth Fits in a Window, the World Goes Silent
A client came back from space a few years ago. Not a figure of speech. Blue Origin. A few minutes past the Kármán line, the altitude where atmosphere ends and space begins. When we met afterward, I was prepared for…
The Last Ten Percent
Most of us have a last ten percent—the habit we almost broke, the pattern we nearly changed, the version of ourselves we got close to but never fully reached. We’ve done real work. We are, by any honest measure, mostly…
They Knew. They Stayed. Here’s Why. | The Psychology of Looking Away
I think of it as a volume problem. I sit with people who are navigating the quiet tension — the layer of pressure, drive, doubt, or longing that hums beneath the surface of a high-performing life. Usually, it’s quiet. It…
The Penguin Cliff and Your Bratty Teenager
I recently watched a National Geographic video - first time ever recorded - of 700 emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica making their inaugural trek to the water. Climate change has made the journey harder. What used to be a 1-2…