—There’s no greater freedom than living in your true self, a self authentically and lovingly connected to others. It’s how we are built. It’s how our children are built. Living the kind of balance many of us aspire to looks a heck of lot easier in print than it is in action. It takes work to integrate it all, but it is so worth it.

Disconnection is a health risk, now, at epidemic proportions. You may have lost connection with yourself. You may have not yet built it. It is never too late. Too many of us wall ourselves off in self-protection while we cry out for belonging. These contradictions are exhausting to manage. Too many of us throw up road blocks year-after-year along the road of our greatest dreams.

—Most people see me for support with life transitions, relationships, loss, the pursuit of life goals or challenges facing women and girls; for concerns around fatigue, sleep, paying attention, chronic stress, changes in mood such as anxiety and depression. Many struggle with having grown up with substance abuse, workaholism, narcissism or other emotional abandonment in the family. Yet others struggle with having experienced a traumatic event or traumatic interpersonal violence such as child abuse or neglect, sexual assault or an intimate partner’s abuse of power in the relationship. You are not alone in any of this. There is a solidarity in individual therapy and in group therapy that will sustain the courageous work ahead of you.

Life can break your heart. We are not meant to heal alone. The greatest honor my patients give me is their trust.  They know I get it.  They know that I hold hope, compassion and practical solutions until they can.  There is always a path to clarity.  There is always a way to love.  There is always a way home, however you define home.