The question (perhaps cliché at this point) often posed in therapy is, “How did that make you feel?”  And you may also hear, “where do you feel that in your body?” What these questions are getting at is the act of bringing awareness to one’s interoception. Interoception  is defined as the perception of your internal body signals and senses. These questions may be beloved and/or disliked, depending on your relationship with them, but they are important ones to be curious about as they help...

Living with others—whether roommates, friends, partners and/or family members—can be both challenging and rewarding.  I have recently come across a few   essays  that explore the act of living together and the types of compromises you may end up making in doing so. One suggestion these essays focus on is the idea of flexibility and how, when living with others, you may need to “ loosen ” certain strong preferences—such as décor, how dishes are put away or how common areas are used, among...

You may have a sense that the darkest time of year is not actually on the Winter Solstice (December 21), but during the first week of December.  While the solstice technically has the shortest amount of daylight, the earliest sunset does not occur on that day. Rather, the earliest sunset was last week. Thus, these early weeks of December may feel the darkest. After the winter solstice, we inch closer to longer days, though it may not feel like it. After the holidays in January and February,...