Occasional reflections written between sessions — on the questions people bring to therapy, and the cultures and relationships that shape them.
For anyone who has ever felt not quite at home in either of their cultures — on code-switching, the myth of the single self, the real losses worth grieving, and what therapy can offer people living between worlds.
Read the post → June 2026Anthropology teaches that there is no self before culture; existential philosophy teaches that culture never finishes the self. On identity, belonging, and what therapy can offer people living between worlds.
Read the post → May 2026Polyamory isn't a disorder or a phase — but it does bring real challenges: jealousy that asks to be understood, one calendar shared between several loves, and a world quick to judge. A short, warm read on what affirming therapy can offer.
Read the post → April 2026The longer read: the psychological and social challenges of polyamorous life, why existential therapy is unusually well suited to them, and what the anthropological record tells us about the many shapes of human loving.
Read the post → March 2026A short, gentle look at one of the most common reasons people come to therapy — why stuckness isn't a failure of willpower, what it might be protecting you from, and why you don't need the answer before you begin.
Read the post → February 2026Stuckness is rarely about a lack of willpower. Two traditions — existential therapy and Buddhist psychology — reframe it as a meaningful, workable human experience: an encounter with freedom, and a habit of clinging.
Read the post → January 2026Why I'm starting to write here — and what you can expect to find: short, unhurried reflections on therapy, culture, identity and the relationships we live inside.
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