Have you ever asked yourself what makes you sad? Or mad? Or anxious? What events take away your joy? If we were meeting in person, I'd...

How Do We Determine Right and Wrong in a World of Gray? What is a Moral Compass? All my life, I’ve believed that my moral compass, AKA my...

Fair warning: This isn’t a G-rated post. It’s honest, faith-based, and grounded in psychology. Even if you don’t share my faith, I...

How to Hold Pain and Hope at the Same Time Some days, all we feel is grief, exhaustion, or disappointment. I don't know about you, but...

I wrote this poem a year ago, around the time of our last presidential election. I find it even more important this time around.   We are...

The Intersection of Anxiety, Attention Deficits, and Cognitive Advancement I am unique. Weird, some might say. I used to think of it as a...

"What's the big deal?" "Stop being so dramatic." "Calm down." "Don't cry." People react to big emotions with a knee-jerk desire to shut...

When sadness comes like a crashing wave, or anxiety pulls the ground out from under my feet, or the searing ache of hurt lights the fire...

Sometimes, we chase our tails trying to avoid uncomfortable thoughts. Trying to convince ourselves to ignore what we consider irrational,...

Ever had one of those days? Weeks? Months? When nothing is going right and everything is just a monumental effort? When no matter what...

The idea for UPside started as a conversation between myself and a coworker. The two of us wanted to find a way to reach more people with...