What happens when leaders and decision-makers portray vulnerability as weakness, doubt as incompetence, and suggest that to admit fault is to invite annihilation? If the ability to tolerate uncertainty, remorse, or dependence is what makes us fully human, then what happens when we seek their erasure?

There’s a lot of talk about boundaries in modern psychology, and for good reason. And yet, are they always helping us? In protecting ourselves, could we also be cutting ourselves off from opportunities for the very connections we crave?

When therapy demands strict control, it risks teaching the same lesson that anxiety has already imposed—that uncertainty is intolerable and must be eliminated.

Feeling less attracted to your partner can be unsettling, but what if it’s not a sign that something is wrong with them—or you? What if this feeling is precisely the gift you and your partner need to reconnect?

What if the hardest struggle as therapists is not improving our outcomes, but accepting our inadequacy?

Do modern approaches to therapy rely too heavily on external tools and imagined supports to guide clients through their pain? What if the true healing potential lies not in these resources, but in our ability to stay fully present and attuned to them in the here-and-now?

What if your loftiest of values, as noble as they are, fail to guide you when emotions are at their peak? Could it be that we get in our own way when we aspire to be more?

When our view of self is in any way contingent on our success in the world, are we able freely choose to do anything at all?

Mastery of ourselves, others, and the world around us may feel like the way toward stability. But the process of gaining such control itself undermines they very ground we seek.

When the endpoint of our lives is functioning, fitting in, or otherwise not having needs; our inner worlds can only be symptoms. The moment we begin to see our symptoms as gifts is the only moment we can experience true healing...