by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | Anxiety, mental health, OCD
Anxiety and OCD overlap enough that they are regularly mistaken for one another, including by people who have lived with one of them for years. Both involve worry. Both involve a body that will not settle. Both get worse the harder you try to fight them. The...
by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | mental health
One of the most common things I hear is some version of this: I got what I wanted, so why do I feel like this? The promotion came through. The move happened. The wedding was lovely. The last child left for college exactly on schedule. And instead of relief there is a...
by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | mental health, OCD
OCD may be the most misunderstood diagnosis in common use. It has become shorthand for liking things neat, and that misunderstanding does real harm. It leaves people who actually have OCD unable to recognize themselves in the public description, and it is a...
by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | Anxiety, mental health
Almost everyone has been stressed. Far fewer people can tell you the moment stress turned into anxiety. The line between them is genuinely blurry, and most of the people I work with crossed it long before they noticed. Here is the simplest distinction I use: stress is...
by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | mental health
Most people picture depression as crying and staying in bed. That version is real, but it is not the version I see most often. More often, depression walks in looking like exhaustion, irritability, or a quiet flatness that someone has been working around for months...
by Jennifer | Jul 15, 2026 | mental health
Accelerated Resolution Therapy, usually shortened to ART, is an evidence-based approach that works directly on how distressing experiences are stored, rather than on how well you can describe them. It uses guided imagery alongside sets of horizontal eye movements, and...
