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Buck Being Normal, Find Your Baseline

How Do We Carry Secrets Before Our Lifetimes?

Striving for Egg-cellence: When Work Equals Worth

Buck Being Normal, Find Your Baseline

It’s normal to normalize what is normal and to want to be normal yourself. But why do we focus so much on being normal? We live in a...

How Do We Carry Secrets Before Our Lifetimes?

Freudian ideas like penis envy, the Oedipus complex, and castration anxiety do not have much support from present day scholars. These...

Striving for Egg-cellence: When Work Equals Worth

The way individuals make meaning of their work has differed throughout history. In primitive societies, work was a means to survive....

Your Self-Esteem Journey - Part 3

Welcome back to our self-esteem series. If this is your first time accessing the blog, you may find it helpful to read the first post in...

A Spoonful of Self Care Helps the Energy Go Up

I just finished reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, a book written ahead of its time and with emphasis on a widely misunderstood facet...

Your Self-Esteem Journey- Part 2

Welcome back to our self-esteem series. If this is your first time accessing the blog, you may find it helpful to read the first post in...

Refuge Recovery: Where Addiction Meets Mindfulness

In May of 1935, the infamous Bill W. was in Akron, Ohio on business. Bill was a stock broker from New York and an alcoholic. After a...

Your Self-Esteem Journey- Part 1

Over your life span, you have likely heard the term “self-esteem”. As such, you have probably come to understand self-esteem as it...

Origami for Understanding the Brain and Anxiety

Imagine a piece of paper that is folded in half and then unfolded to expose a crease. Let’s use the folding action to represent a lived...