The Value of Enemies
There’s a new novel out titled, “The Kindness of Enemies” and I wish I’d thought of that title first! At thirty I didn’t have …
Topic: Natasha Horsley, MS, LPC
Five Therapeutic Life Hacks
The upside to being on a fairly continuous ‘self-improvement’ plan is that I keep finding new ways and things to improve! The downside is often …
The Secret Life of a Therapist
Am I Truly Boring? All the things I could write about, I want to write about boredom. Once when I was 18 my father said, “If you don’t stop talking like …
A New School Year, New Beginnings
Time to Reflect Today I am on vacation and happily spending the day napping, reading a beach novel, making homemade guacamole, tending to my daughter’s …
Psychotherapy: Its Stigma And Its Value
I’m tired of defending psychotherapy. It’s kind of like the amount of times I heard the “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” Natasha and Boris jokes when I first …
If I Were Asked To Give This Year’s Graduation Speech
As I get ready to send my second son off to college I am thinking about graduation, because in a way I feel like I’m graduating too. Perhaps mothers …
Aging Hopefully
At 50, I tend to click on articles about growing older gracefully, or not so gracefully. Some of them are worthy of the word ‘viral’ and some of …
8 Stages of Adapting to Change
Recently I saw someone I love die. I mean I literally saw him die. Some of you may have seen this many times. Others of you may never have seen this. But I am …
What Do You Deserve?
I notice that most people I know, including myself, get confused between the words “deserve” and “entitled”. I think most of us think …
How to Divorce a Bully, 5 Helpful Tips
First of all this article should actually be called, “How to divorce yourself from bullying behavior”, but that just doesn’t sound as sexy, …