Writing

August 13, 2026

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Feeling At Home in Oneself

What does it mean to feel at home—not in a house, but in yourself? This piece traces that question through a remote, sage-covered stretch of the American West, a former patient's memory of a teacher who saw him when almost no one else did, and Rilke's letters on solitude. Moving associatively between landscape, memory, and clinical insight, the essay arrives at a quiet claim: that home is something we build, through relationship and stillness alike, into a place inside ourselves that can never be taken from us.

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August 6, 2026

Depression

Living With A Depressed Partner

Depression affects not only the individual suffering, but also their relationships, family system, and loved ones. This article explores how to support a partner or family member struggling with depression while maintaining healthy boundaries, emotional connection, and self-care. Drawing from existential psychotherapy and relational perspectives, it examines common challenges including helplessness, guilt, emotional exhaustion, enabling behaviors, and relationship strain. Readers will learn practical ways to remain supportive, encourage treatment, communicate openly, protect their own wellbeing, and help create an environment where healing, grief, meaning, and reconnection to life can emerge.

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July 31, 2026

Relationships

The Work of Loving Another Person

Love is one of the few experiences most of us enter with enormous hope and very little preparation. We may know how to fall in love, but we are rarely taught how to remain once another person becomes fully real to us—once disappointment, conflict, old wounds, and the difficult work of truly knowing one another begins. This essay explores what it means to love someone beyond the fantasy of love itself.

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July 23, 2026

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Grief and Depression: How Grief Leads Us Back to Life

Depression often begins with loss. This article explores grief as the natural process of turning toward that loss, allowing emotions to move, and gradually reconnecting with ourselves, our values, and the flow of life.

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July 16, 2026

Depression

Turning Toward Yourself: The Body, Self, and Healing from Depression

Discover how reconnecting with your body, emotions, and inner experience can restore self, vitality, and healing from depression.

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July 11, 2026

Depression

How to Begin Healing from Depression: Turning Toward Yourself

Depression often feels like losing touch with yourself. The things that once brought meaning, vitality, and movement no longer seem to reach you. This article explores the existential practice of turning toward your thoughts, feelings, body, and relationships as the beginning of healing. Rather than fighting or escaping painful emotions, healing begins by learning to listen to them, gradually rebuilding a deeper sense of self and reconnecting with life.

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July 3, 2026

Fantasy

Fantasy, Desire, and the Unlived Life Within

Sexual fantasies are a normal and meaningful part of human life. This article explores the psychology of fantasy, desire, shame, imagination, and intimacy through existential, psychoanalytic, and relational perspectives. Drawing on the work of Esther Perel, Stephen Mitchell, and contemporary psychoanalysis, it examines how fantasies help us understand our deepest longings, navigate relationships, preserve erotic vitality, and develop greater self-acceptance. Rather than signs of pathology or moral failure, fantasies can serve as a safe space for exploring identity, desire, creativity, and emotional life. Learning to understand our fantasies can reduce shame and deepen our connection to ourselves and others.

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June 26, 2026

Depression

Living With Depression

This article explores depression from an existential and phenomenological perspective, moving beyond symptoms to examine the lived experience of disconnection, loss of vitality, diminished self-awareness, and estrangement from life's meaning. Drawing from Existential Analysis, it considers how depression affects one's relationship to feelings, values, relationships, and personal identity. Topics include loss, the need for acceptance, reduced inner vitality, self-connection, emotional awareness, and the role of psychotherapy in helping individuals reconnect with what moves them, restore a sense of aliveness, and deepen their relationship with themselves and the world around them.

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May 21, 2026

Judgment

The Experience of Being Judged

This essay explores the lived experience of being judged and how judgment shapes shame, self-consciousness, identity, and human freedom. Through a phenomenological and relational lens, it examines how the gaze and evaluations of others can constrict spontaneity, alter selfhood, and lead people to internalize critical ways of seeing themselves. The piece reflects on judgment not simply as criticism, but as a deeply human experience tied to recognition, vulnerability, belonging, and the struggle to remain fully alive in relationship with oneself and others.

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