When you were born, someone decided whether you were female or male. Which biological category you were placed in probably had something to do with your anatomy. But biology was just the beginning. Being raised male or raised female means you...
Everyone comes equipped with a mind. No one comes with a manual.
Fortunately, your mind works all on its own, performing everyday marvels without requiring any intervention from you. Only when our minds...
You think you know why you date, but you’re wrong.
You think you’re on the hunt for a suitable partner. You’ve been programmed to believe the person in front of you is a kind of checklist. Snappy dating profile –...
(Originally published as Girls, Women, and Internalized Sexism: chapter 8 of the book Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups, edited by E.J.R. David. If you like this chapter, please...
Everyone comes equipped with a mind. No one comes with a manual.
Fortunately, your mind works all on its own, performing everyday marvels without requiring any intervention from you. Only when our minds...
The armies of the anxious, and the droves of the depressed, continue to swell in number. Their members yearn to unlock the mysteries of anxiety and depression, but the keys are lost. We’ve searched for them in every corner of the paradigm of...
Counseling doesn’t always work. Every counselor has heard the stories: clients lamenting previous counseling relationships that were frustrating, disappointing, and ineffectual. We hear the stories and we hope our clients won’t be telling...
Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you? Not knowing can...
It’s easy for counselors, and the people we counsel, to get stuck in our heads. Counseling as we know it originated as “the talking cure”. Over the generations, counselors have discovered how to use dialogue as a powerful medium for facilitating...
Relationships have a natural life cycle: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Along the way, they pass through a series of stages. Some relationships make it to the next stage; some don’t. If they last long enough, someone eventually leaves the...
