Posts by Lauren Robbins

When someone we know and care about is experiencing emotional pain and hurt, it can feel so hard to know what to do. Because we care about them, we naturally…

Attachment and Intimate Sexual Relationships Part III of this blog series: a summary of the relationship between defense mechanisms and securely attaching to our significant others and sexual intimacy. See…

Everywhere you turn, I bet you keep hearing this trending word – Mindfulness. It pops up everywhere and if you’re not familiar with this concept it can be confusing as…

Winter is gorgeous and fun. It can also be really difficult: It’s cold, car doesn’t start, and you forget your mittens and wonder if your right index finger will ever…

Although we have recently made it through another election, the next one is right around the corner. We are all acutely aware of how charged the political climate is right…

Joan Halifax, the director of Project on Being With Dying, has said, “Compassion is comprised of that capacity to see with clearly into the nature of suffering. It is that ability…

Self-care during the holiday season.  Seems like an oxymoron right?  Let me run you through a typical day, mid-December. It’s 5:15AM, the alarm goes off and I have been relieved of my…