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Hard Habits to Break: Creating Strategies for Changing Negative Behaviors
I used to work out three to four times a week. Now, I don’t. I bend over backwards, coming up with irrational reasons not to engage in this behavior despite knowing that regular exercise helps me remain in good health and keeps me looking my best—a circumstance that...
The Money Pit: Strategies for Balancing Finance and a Happy Relationship
The number one thing couples fight about is money. If you’re wondering why, theories abound. But whether one person has a more relaxed attitude towards money matters than the other or a couple disagrees on how their dollars should be spent, their approach to shared...
The Worry Wars Part 2: Conquering (Or at Least Surviving) Global Anxiety
Sometimes, it feels like we live in a dystopian world—as if there’s nothing we can depend on. While the pandemic recedes, political views divide us; war rages across the globe, college campuses are hotbeds of unrest, and democracy appears to hang by a thread. No...
The Worry Wars: Healthy Options for Neutralizing Anxiety (Part I)
One of the first things I talked to my therapist about was the anxiety I was feeling about my upcoming wedding. I worried that my family and friends wouldn’t make their flights. I worried that they wouldn’t find anything to do in the city. I worried that they wouldn’t...
Letting It Go: Allowing Forgiveness in to Create a Healthier You
I sat in the quiet of my therapist’s office and wondered if I finally had the strength to let it go. As for forgiveness, that was a pipe dream. I’d been hanging on to the same pain for over a decade, but I couldn’t allow myself to feel the hurt. It was so much easier...
What was I Made For? Body Image, Positivity, and Neutrality
I listened to Billie Eilish’s Grammy and Academy Award-winning juggernaut, “What Was I Made For?” the other day and thought about body image. As a gay man with a disability, my journey to accepting the way I occupy space in the world has been a long and sometimes...