Walk-and-Talk Therapy in the Seattle Area: Nature as a Co-Therapist
Some of the best conversations of your life probably didn't happen sitting across a table from someone. They happened side by side — on a walk, in a car, on a trail — when your hands were busy and your eyes had somewhere to land other than another person's face.
There's a reason for that.
When Your Job Is Your Whole Identity (and Why That's Risky)
"So, what do you do?"
It's the first question at almost every gathering, and for a lot of us the answer isn't just information — it's the answer, the thing we most want people to know about us. Our title, our company, our field: that's who we are.
In my practice I meet a lot of accomplished people who have, without quite noticing, let their work absorb everything else. Let's talk about how that happens, why it's risky, and how to build a self that's bigger than your title.
How to Stop Overthinking Everything at Night
Nothing about the day was unmanageable. Then the light goes off and your brain clears its throat and begins its nightly presentation: the awkward thing you said in 2014, the email you should have worded differently, the future you can't control, the money, the health, the people you love.
During the day you were too busy to notice these thoughts. Now, in the dark and the quiet, there's nothing left to drown them out.
How to Stop Anxious Thoughts From Spiraling
A spiral almost never starts with something big. An unanswered text will do it, or a comment your boss made, or a twinge somewhere in your body. Ten minutes later one thought has multiplied into ten, each worse than the last, and you have traveled from she seemed a little off today all the way to I'm going to lose this friendship and end up completely alone.
This is the anxiety spiral — and if you've been caught in one, you know how real and consuming it feels. The good news is that a spiral is a pattern, and patterns can be interrupted. You are not doomed to ride every runaway train of thought to its terrifying destination.