May is Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness Month. As a therapist with lived experience of mild to moderate hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), I know firsthand how incredibly invisibilized and dismissed this condition so often is, so I wanted to share a little bit about what it is and some “do”s and “don’t”s about how to respond to people […]

When I was going through recurrent pregnancy loss, one of the worst parts was that my identity as a parent felt invisible. While parents of living children are often encouraged to talk about their children and praised for all they are doing to take care of their families, it’s much more taboo for loss parents […]

In the past, philosophy and therapy were closely related fields. But in the past several decades, therapy has moved towards skill-building and emotional regulation

When talking about forms of pain and suffering that are often seen as “invisible” in our society, you’ll usually hear me use the word “invisibilized” rather than “invisible.” While this may seem like a minor word choice that’s just about semantics, for me it feels like an intentional decision that is a core part of […]

Why do we celebrate weddings when half of all marriages end in divorce? About 15-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, which is rare by comparison

Why do we celebrate weddings when half of all marriages end in divorce? About 15-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, which is rare by comparison

We sometimes forget to ask broader questions the problems that we aim to address. One solution is to look to the different models used for disability

The aim of this blog post is to call into question how we conceptualize and define “impulsivity” in a way that is affirming of neurodiversity and disability

I feel that a missing piece of the conversation is the ways that struggling to become pregnant and pregnancy loss can contribute to disordered eating

The ways people move through and perceive the world involves eating; neurodiversity therefore means that there is no one right or wrong way to eat