Emotional Depth in a high-performance world
Weekly psychology insights on anxiety, relationships, and meaningful living.
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Gaslighting: How to Recognize It, and Why It’s So Hard to Trust Yourself Again
“Gaslighting” has become one of the most searched psychological terms in the country — so widely searched, in fact, that it was recently named the most-looked-up definition on Google so far this year, ahead of words like empathy, narcissist, and anxiety. That popularity isn’t just a linguistic trend. It reflects something real: a lot of…
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The Art of Listening: Contemplative Wisdom and the Psychology of Receptive Awareness
There is a kind of listening that has nothing to do with sound. The Advaita Vedanta teacher Jean Klein spent much of his life pointing toward this — what he called “unconditioned listening,” or simply “welcoming.” In works like The Book of Listening and I Am, Klein described listening not as something a person “does”,…
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The Guest House: Emotional Acceptance
There’s a well-known short poem by the 13th-century Persian poet and mystic Rumi, often circulated in therapy circles under the title “The Guest House.” Most people who’ve spent time in a therapist’s office, a mindfulness class, or a self-help book have encountered it in some form. The image at its center is simple: this life,…
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