Category: mental health

  • Pain, uncertainty and endless work

    Pain, uncertainty and endless work

    Though that’s not an especially cheery way to introduce a story, Phil Stutz noted yesterday in “Meet the Shrinks” that those are the “three things that everyone has to face.” One of the tools that the psychotherapist uses to transmute pain is the “Reversal of Desire” tool – those in yesterday’s Zoom call were privy…

  • Missing dad

    Missing dad

    Coping with loss is a key part of wellness. And I don’t think I did a particularly stellar job of managing. (Most of us don’t.) I am writing this today because in a perfect world, my dad would still be around and we’d be celebrating his birthday. Instead, he departed this world just over two…