Welcome to the Mess

Have you ever heard that childhood trauma could be linked to autoimmune disease later in life? If your first thought was, Excuse me, what? Fair. That’s a pretty big connection to casually drop into a conversation, and it deserves more than a catchy headline and somebody on the internet confidently declaring, It’s your trauma.

Okay, so you've figured out what all those damn letters mean. Now comes the harder part: How do you actually find the right therapist for you? Because credentials matter. So do training and experience. But none of those things automatically mean that a therapist is going to be the right therapist for you. A therapist can be highly educated, properly licensed, extensively trained, and very good at what they do, and you can still sit across from them and think: Nope. And that's

A Guide to Mental Health Credentials—and How the Field Is Changing

When we're young, we put our parents on a pedestal (we don't necessarily realize we're doing it). They're just Mom or Dad. They are the adults. They're supposed to know what they're doing, know what we need, and understand things that we don't understand yet. When we're little, we need to believe that. But eventually, we grow up. Part of growing up (an incredibly important part) is taking our parents off that pedestal. Not because we stop loving them or because everything the

Have you ever looked back at something you did and thought, Why the hell do I keep doing this? Maybe you keep choosing the same type of person, maybe you get attached quickly and then panic when someone starts pulling away, maybe you overthink every text, every change in tone, every tiny shift in someone's behavior, maybe you know you're doing it. You can see the behavior. You might even be able to predict exactly how it's going to end and yet, somehow, you keep doing it anyw