Breathing is Hard

I’ve been feeling a lot of pain and anxiety in my body lately and I can’t meditate or do yoga, so I do pilates and I stress bake and cook, read, and watch movies because they distract me from my pain and ruminations at least a little bit. This picture is of one of my …

My Third Installment of Therapy in TV: NCIS

I kept thinking about this topic especially after I realized I was thinking of some examples but they also aren't the ones that come up very often when you google this topic (I checked). I realized that NCIS has a few examples of therapy. Agent Gibbs and Dr. Confalone I have watched NCIS since the …

For me, anxiety means that I lie. A lot.

I lie a lot. I never mean to and I don’t like to. I never lie about the important things—in fact there I’m a terrible liar but little social lies? Yeah, those I do all the time. I fear judgement so I say what I think people want to hear. I fear other people feeling …

Therapy on TV: Lucifer

In writing my latest post, I tried to think of other examples of therapy in movies and TV from recent years, and honestly, I couldn’t come up with a ton. There’s an example of couples therapy and then individual therapy in Big Little Lies that was lauded in Season 1 and frequently critiqued in Season …