You've been waiting all week to meet with your therapist and have a lot to say and share. You feel anxiety about where to start first, knowing that your time is limited to 50 minutes and want to make sure to get everything in that you need to. Do you start with an update on your life? Something specific you want to work on? There won't be time for it all, so something has got to go, right? Then you have to wait another entire week to follow up and slowly chip away at the iceb

Disclaimer: If you LOVE this time of year and are perfectly happy, this article is not for you. (With loving kindness, enjoy the season and pass along to a friend who is a little grinchy.) What would it mean if you truly believed and felt that you could make the winter and holiday season different this time around? What if you didn't feel obligated to do things you didn't want to do, go places you preferred not to go, or didn't have that dark cloud of existential dread that t