What is Good Mental Health? An Attempt At a Definition

  We live in the age of a hyper-focus on our mental health. Recently, I read a post that suggested that by mid-life, one in two individuals will have had a mental health struggle. This bothered me, for the same reasons that the ever-expanding diagnostic manual in Psychiatry, which tries to include and name almost…

The Inorganic Nature of Love

“What is a relationship if not the evolution of learning about what somebody needs…The fact that we need to go through a process of working on some of our inferior muscles to be better caregivers, of course, it’s unnatural, that’s intimacy, that’s learning to love someone.” The Dignity of Suffering Podcast, Episode 6   So…

Will the Baby Take the Food: The Art of Vulnerability and Why it’s Important to Break Down Emotions Into Bite Sized Pieces

But there’s a scream inside that we all try to hide We hold on so tight, we cannot deny Eats us alive                                                         – Sia       “You will get tired of me, if you find out what an emotional mess I am, you will leave me”   “I don’t deserve your comfort, it’s my…