Approval ≠ Understanding #TransparentTuesday Hi friend, Lately I’ve been thinking about the subtle differences between feeling validated, and feeling seen… and why we often think we crave one, when we actually need the other. In my experience, people tend to conflate the two because they can feel similar from the outside. Both can calm us down when we’re upset. Both can make us feel more connected and less alone. Both can make us feel like we’re being understood, valued, or

Good news for women's health! (For once.) #TransparentTuesday Hi friend, I came across a piece of genuinely good news in women's health recently, and given the state of, well… everything… I feel like we should take our wins where we can get them! What happened is that—after more than a decade of debate, consultation, research, and ferocious advocacy—the condition formerly known as PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) has officially been renamed PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovari

Ashley St. Clair, accountability, and the question I can't stop thinking about. #TransparentTuesday Hi friend, I’ve been fascinated by Ashley St. Clair’s TikTok content lately. Now, if you don’t know who Ashley St. Clair is…honestly, that's probably healthy. Ashley was a prominent MAGA influencer for years who started at the very young age of 19 to build a public platform creating incredibly problematic and harmful right-wing content. She was particularly known for her anti-t

Hi friend, Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time helping my clients process their feelings about AI, and I think we need to talk about it. The AI revolution is already underway and shit is changing fast. Google just announced that it no longer sees itself as a search engine, but as an AI platform. Bumble is experimenting with a future where your AI avatar dates other people’s AI avatars before you ever speak to a real human. Entire industries are reorganizing themselves around

Hi friend! Today I want to share a couple of updates, new offers, and ways we can work together or stay in touch as we head into summer! First up, I just published the 8th and final module of course material on Patreon for my self-study e-course about navigating body image issues as you get older, and “age out” of conventional beauty and body ideals! I created this course, which is called Age Neutrality: Feeling Confident & Body Neutral as Your “Looks Fade,” to help you neutr

“I can’t stop snacking at night,” my client told me, frustrated. She assured me that this habit wasn’t about physical hunger, and that it didn’t matter how much she ate earlier in the day, or even how much she ate for dinner. It didn’t matter what dinner was, or what time she ate dinner, or even which snacks she kept in the house—every single night, approximately 20 minutes after finishing dinner, my client would find herself standing in front of the fridge or snack cupboard

Hi friend, Last week I wrote about quitting vaping, and how much more difficult and uncomfortable it’s been than I ever could have imagined. Today I want to explore something that has felt even stranger, harder to articulate, and deeply disorienting for me: Struggling to trust my own desire. Historically, I’ve understood desire as a crucial part of our individual map for personal fulfillment and thriving as humans, and I’ve built a lot of my work, and my life, around the id

Hi friend, Today I want to share an incredibly vulnerable, tender, and raw story with you—a story that actually feels super scary to share, both because it’s so deeply personal and emotional for me, and because it involves me doing something that is widely judged and stigmatized: Vaping. Yep. Sigh. This is going to be the story of how I got addicted to vaping, my absolute love affair with nicotine, and the hideously painful experience of quitting. (So if this is a topic you

They’re all getting work done to look the SAME. #TransparentTuesday Hi friend, Recently while watching a reality TV show, it took me nearly half the season before I was able to tell three out of the four female leads apart from each other. This is a bit embarrassing to admit, but this kind of thing happens to me all the time, and I do actually think I must have some kind of mild face blindness. (If I’m starting a new TV show or watching a movie, it generally takes me a li

Why everyone is starting to look the SAME. #TransparentTuesday