To Give Advice or Not to Give Advice: How to Be Present With Our Loved Ones in Their Suffering
Being present with our loved ones in their suffering can be difficult. This post explores how advice giving can impact our loved ones who are in pain.
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Ways to Support Your Partner With Depression
How do you help a partner with depression without burning out or making it worse? A San Diego psychologist on presence over solutions, and four ways to support someone you love.
Why Is My Anxiety Getting Worse? Four Reasons, and What Actually Helps
Anxiety that keeps getting worse is usually anxiety that has been managed but never understood. Dr. Reid Kessler on the four reasons it grows, why it can feel like it is happening for no reason, and the step that actually brings it down.