Lets start with what therapy is not. Its not something to feel weird about. Millions of people do it for reasons as serious as having suicidal thoughts and as non-serious as wanting to be a little less grumpy. The era when therapy carried any kind of major stigma started to end when Tony sat down with Dr. Melfi. So lets move on to what it is: Its a space to talk to a professional listener about whatever you want. Its confidential. It takes place behind closed doors with a licensed expert. Whi...
About two years ago, my life started falling apart at an alarming clip. I was marriedspoiler alert: wasand had two young children. We all lived in New York in a too-small apartment, and I was at a point in my career as a writer where things, I thought, should be getting easier, but they werent. Everyone else had a house upstate and a Subaru. What was I doing wrong? I had always had a lot of turmoil with my personal relationships, but as my cohort aged and had kids of their own, I found I had ...
<strong> JUST BEFORE COVID-19 </strong> came and made egg salad of the world, I took the principled but in retrospect foolish step of removing myself from all social media. The worldmy world, particularlyhad become too mediated by screens. Life, I felt, was happening inside the enclosed porch but I was on the wrong side of it, like a mosquito trying to get in. I yearned for likes and ached for followers. I had surrendered my sense of direction to GPS and my sense of self to algorithms. So I ...
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