Lately I’ve been returning to an idea that has quietly shaped both my own life and the way I practice therapy: We don’t find peace by making uncertainty disappear. We find it by growing large enough to hold it. One podcast I return to again and again is Living Myth, hosted by storyteller, mythologist, and cultural thinker Michael Meade. Drawing from Jungian psychology, mythology, folklore, and archetypal wisdom, he explores the deeper patterns unfolding beneath our personal l

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the breath. Not necessarily breathwork. Not using the breath to do something or change something or get ourselves into a better state. Just the breath itself. The fact that, through all of it, we are being breathed. Some moments give us room to reflect, make meaning, make choices, shift perspective. And some moments really don’t. Sometimes the most available thing is simply to soften a little. To notice where we’re bracing. To unclench. To all

There’s something I’ve been thinking about through my own experience of surgery, healing, and recovery. Therapists are actually taught to be pretty careful about disclosing much about our own lives. There are good reasons for that, of course. The therapy room is not supposed to become about us. But I’ve also never been particularly good at pretending there is a clean line between Lisa the human and Lisa the therapist. I am both, all the time. Transparency and authenticity are

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how healing really isn’t linear. Maybe nothing is. Healing just has a way of making that especially obvious. A good day doesn’t necessarily mean the next day will be good. Sometimes it will be. Sometimes the next day will feel like a step backward. But four steps forward and two steps back is still movement. I think we rely on linear thinking because it gives us a sense of certainty. We want to believe that if we do the right things, follow th

Two quotes found me this week, and they’ve been sitting beside each other in my mind: “We are not here to master unconditional love. That is where we come from. We are here to master personal love.” And: “Softness is not the opposite of strong. Soft is what strength looks like when it’s secure.” I keep thinking about how deeply connected these ideas are. Maybe so much of this human experience is about learning to find our own center—not by becoming unaffected by life, but by