Archive for July 2025

We don’t lose connection in our relationships all at once. It happens slowly—through a thousand tiny moments of emotional disconnection: the rushed goodbye, the phone checked during dinner, the unanswered text. Over time, we stop being curious about each other. And when curiosity fades, so does intimacy. But what if rekindling closeness didn’t require hours…

Have you ever opened your phone to check one thing… and suddenly it’s 40 minutes later and you’re deep in someone’s feed, not even sure how you got there? It’s not just you. In my practice, I started seeing a pattern: Emotional upheaval—like a breakup or betrayal—followed by hours lost to social media. Not casual…

I’ve been a therapist for over two decades, and if there’s one pattern I’ve seen in nearly every long-term relationship, it’s this: Couples don’t keep fighting about new things. They fight about the same thing, over and over—just in different outfits. One of you shuts down. The other gets louder. One pushes for connection, the…

If you ever leave a conversation with a parent feeling confused, guilty, or like you’ve somehow regressed into a younger version of yourself—you’re not imagining it. Many adults are still carrying wounds from childhoods spent trying to meet the emotional needs of a parent who couldn’t—or wouldn’t—meet theirs. These are emotionally immature parents. And their…

Holiday weeks always make me feel nostalgic, and that feeling tends to make me reflect on people who used to be in my life but no longer are… That’s why, this week, we’re re-releasing our most popular episode of all time—on family estrangement. Clearly, this topic resonates. So many of us live in the tension…