The contemporary atmosphere of paranoia and conspiracism has frequently reminded me of my childhood in the 1990s when the Satanic Panic was vibrant and mainstream,…
Self-Sacrificing Allies Do Not Serve
The first time I heard about “being an ally” was during my undergraduate years in the early 2000s. “An ally” generally meant a person who…
Quarterly Newsletters
As Facebook is no longer a useful tool for reaching my audience, I am establishing a New Year’s intention to begin using my e-mail newsletters…
Collective Guilt and False Innocence
Recently there was a commercial for a local news report on the legacy of the residential schools to which Native children were compelled to go,…
Fate and Fortune
This morning I opened up my WordPress blog’s post history and saw five drafts that had been partially written and then abandoned, unpublished. Each one…
Therapy through Screens
In spring of 2020 a global crisis—you may be familiar with it—compelled me to move my practice entirely to Telehealth. This transition was not smooth.…
Grounding
In my twenties I was involved with a religious community that did a lot of heavy ritual work. One of the first lessons they taught…
Loneliness
Having been a child who spent a lot of time alone, I went into lockdown thinking, “This’ll be fine, I know how to do this.”…
False Despair
NOTE: This was edited on 1/9/21 to remove some lines that minimized the violent intentions of some of the insurrectionists, after learning more about what…
End of 2020 Gratitude
This year I presented a series of workshops for therapists struggling with the shift to telehealth demanded by the COVID19 pandemic. As these workshops emerged…