Hey there, I recently appeared on The Only One In The Room podcast where I discussed, among other things, my mother’s suicide and the…

“The story you don’t want to tell is the story you have to tell” said a dear friend and mentor, the eighty-six year old author Jill Schary Robinson, shaking her head like a swallow in a birdbath on the screen of the iPhone. …

I am having a bad mental health day. Let me rephrase that. I am having a mental health day. Neither bad, nor good, simply I am mindful of the need for attending to my mental health today. I feel fried. I feel disorganized. I feel under the weather. I feel…

I’ve been having these dreams recently. There’s no specific identifying information or cohesive detail that suggests what they are about. (For example, there is no boat with mice in traveling to a faraway land. …

There are so many personal development blogs and self-help books out there it’s difficult to keep track. Whether it’s manifestations, visualizations, gratitude lists, or any and all attitude adjustment techniques, a lot of it can make you feel even more overwhelmed. All of that stuff is great, but sometimes there…

When I first got sober in Alcoholics Anonymous, I encountered steps one and two and they made a lot of sense to me. Sure, my life had become unmanageable and I was powerless to stop it. And yeh, I could most certainly come to believe that a power greater than…

Everybody shares at least one secret. And in the gay community, we all shared a big one. Pride is About Letting Go of our Secrets I was scared straight. Literally. For 27 years I was in the closet. I’m almost 37 now. …

Every Friday at 8am I sit in front of my computer and wait for my therapist, Peter, to arrive. He’s a diffident and giddy older gentleman with wispy white curls of hair. …

Aka Neil Young adapted for the now — Hey Hey, Generation Why, I texted you this morning, and you still havent replied By now, almost an hour’s gone by, You either don’t like me, or you’ve died My thoughts are bundled into tweets, social media posts If it’s not a ‘top 10 reasons why’ then I’m not engrossed …