What might Tarot contribute to the practice of psychotherapy? Drawing on the history of Tarot, depth psychology, and the psychology of projective techniques, this essay explores how Tarot imagery may elicit, amplify, and enrich psychological meaning. A three-card spread brings these possibilities to life, offering a glimpse of how symbolic images might deepen therapeutic inquiry.

During a spring walk that resembled a waking dream, two unexpected encounters became meditations on defenselessness, fear, and the possibility of meeting the Divine in the physical world.

What happens when difference feels dangerous — and brilliance becomes a strategy for survival? This essay explores the subtle bind faced by certain inward, sensitive boys and men, and the quiet work of relinquishing the vow to be “exceptionally exceptional” in order to belong.

Every January, we are asked to initiate, accelerate, and reinvent ourselves—just as the natural world enters a season of dormancy. This essay explores what happens when we mistake winter for failure, and why endurance, conservation, and self-respect may be the real work of this time of year.

True healing doesn’t happen in comfort. Just as Tolkien’s One Ring can only be unmade in the fire that forged it, our deepest wounds can only be transformed when therapy brings us back into the emotional heat where our pathogenic beliefs were born. Rupture isn’t a setback—it’s the doorway.

Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story offers more than horror—it reveals the unbearable bind between love, dependency, and annihilation. This piece examines the series’ portrayal of Gein through a psychodynamic lens, tracing how engulfment, idealization, and identification turned filial devotion into true crime’s most haunting pathology.

We imagine the “good” therapy session as smooth, calm, and comforting. But what if the moments that feel hardest — when tension rises, when connection falters — are the ones that hold the greatest power to transform?

Real healing doesn’t come from avoiding the hard places—it comes from entering them with care and courage. We descend not to stay there, but to return changed. We descend to ascend.