Thoughts and Musings

Photo by Vaidas Vaicuilis If you’ve spent any time on social media, you’ve probably encountered some version of the claim that coaching focuses on the future and empowerment while therapy focuses on the past. It’s a tidy distinction, but it’s not an accurate one…and it can lead people to make uninformed decisions about the kind of support they need. The truth is that coaching and therapy are different services with different strengths, and both have a place. But the differenc

Depression is disruptive. It can feel heavy and painful—at times downright debilitating. Within a known context, such as the death of a loved one, that heavy, consuming darkness gets named “grief.” It’s not pleasant, but we give it permission to exist despite the suffering because we recognize it as an important process in the face of loss. But when that same level of malaise settles in without an apparent “good” reason, we’re quick to label it with words implying it shouldn’