When clinical depression takes hold, it is often experienced as a singular condition, unavoidable and closed to movement. Many people describe it as a heavy blanket they cannot get out from under, or a thick, grey fog that settles over everything. It feels as though...
When Words Enter the Room With Depression Supporting someone through depression is less about knowing the perfect thing to say,and more about understanding what certain words carry. Language shapes experience — it can open a door or close it.It can create safety or...
On the West Coast, the season turns not only in temperature but in light.Autumn to winter becomes months of cloud cover, rain, shortened days, and muted horizons.For many, this change is not simply noticed — it is felt. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is more than a...
The calendar turns and culture hands us a script:Begin again. Start fresh. Resolve. Improve. But the psyche does not follow the Gregorian calendar. For many people, the new year arrives not with momentum but with fatigue, a muted heaviness, or the return of familiar...
Training the Mind Without Becoming Its Prisoner Most of us were never taught how to relate to our own thoughts. They arrive automatically, often urgently, and with a tone that sounds authoritative — especially when we are struggling with anxiety, intrusive thinking,...
Gentle Skills for Navigating Depression Depression often feels like winter inside the nervous system. The world narrows. Energy drops. What once felt manageable now asks more than we have available. The brain shifts into conservation mode and turns down motivation,...
