Tips for Making Friends in a New City (While Adulting)
Adulting is Hard. Making-friends-in-a-new-city-while-adulting can be harder. A friend and I were chatting over coffee about the growth in Sacramento as twenty- and thirty-somethings have begun to look for more affordable, but still hip cities to put down roots. Having...
A Window in to an Abusive Relationship – Big Little Lies on HBO
Are you caught up on HBO’s miniseries starring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern? Big Little Lies, based on the book by Liane Moriarty, came to a conclusion on Sunday. The series absolutely enthralled me—the setting (Monterey) was gorgeous, the...
Reading The 5 Love Languages Isn’t Going to Save Your Relationship
Hot take: I’m not a huge fan of this famous relationship self-help book. Whaaaaat? Yep. I said it. I do think it’s helpful–and necessary in most cases–to communicate to your partner when and how to show you love, but I don’t think these...
10 Signs You’re Ready for Therapy
Many of the people who contact me haven’t been in therapy before. Maybe they have some friends who have opened up about their counseling experiences or maybe their only frame of reference is glimpses into therapy sessions on tv or in the movies — which...
