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Belonging: Finding Family Among Strangers

September 20, 2026

Maybe you know what it feels like to hold everyone else together before you are old enough to hold yourself. To learn young that love can leave, and that safety is not something every kid gets to keep. Robin was eight when her mother died. By eleven, her father had chosen a new life over his children and sent Robin and her younger sister into foster care, rather than let them live with the aunt who wanted them. Five and a half years passed with no contact from her family. She grew up among ...

Buried Memory: The Session That Changed Everything

September 16, 2026

You know the version of yourself you built to get through. The one who keeps the peace, reads the room, holds it together so no one else has to worry. Maybe you have wondered who you would be if you ever set that version down. This week I sat with Tarah and EJ Kerwin, two therapists who spend their days helping couples find their way back to each other. They came in curious about a therapy they wanted to understand before recommending it, and instead they found themselves in the middle of t...

Showing Up: The Day I Stopped Trying to Fix It

September 13, 2026

Have you ever loved someone and felt the fear of losing them arrive in the very same breath? Most of us learn early to look away from that fear. Brad learned to look right at it. Brad grew up the grandson of Auschwitz survivors, carrying a fear of death that felt older than he was. As a boy, he needed proof that the people he loved were still breathing. Then, at eighteen, he told a childhood friend he loved her, and two weeks later she was diagnosed with a rare cancer. Everyone expected the ...