About five years ago, I decided to dismantle my life. This is not a melodramatic overstatement. I was living in Boston at the time. I had a long-term partner, an apartment, a gratifying full-time job at a community mental health [...]
Over a year ago, I wrote a series of articles about recognizing symptoms of workplace burnout and how you can manage that with self-care. I described that burnout often looks like depression: you have trouble getting out of bed, you don’t enjoy [...]
That was then… The year is 1993. You wake up in the morning, you brush your teeth, take a shower, and get dressed. Before settling in for breakfast, you retrieve the newspaper from the patio of your home and glance [...]
I recently became aware of a New York Times op-ed from earlier this year called “Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ is Terrible Advice”. The article explains that while authenticity is the buzzword du jour, it’s actually not something most of us [...]