Musings from the Therapist's Chair
2026 will be known as the year when Big Tech met its reckoning. In March, a jury in California found Meta and Google liable for negatively affecting a young people’s mental health by designing...
I often see clients who are struggling with the cumulative demands of life. It seems that modern life is inimical to human wellness. Work, parenting, academics, quickly eat up the hours of the day...
Mindfulness practice has been around for over 3000 years. Sometimes people use “mindfulness” and “meditation” interchangeably. We can think of “meditation” as a...
We live in a society ruled by technocratic elites. Their latest preoccupation: immortality. For Silicon Valley tycoons, the prospect of life ever-lasting is no more than a question of advanced...
Shakespeare knew well the fundaments of human vitality. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the inevitable devastation when one is deprived of sleep, a most basic physical necessity...
Facebook was founded in 2004, Twitter (now “X”) in 2006. The Apple iPhone was launched in 2007. Since those seminal years, wireless devices and social media have dramatically...
The past year has been tumultuous for the world. In a span of weeks, things seemed to have further fallen into disaster. Carnage, destruction, chaos spread like vicious ripples across the globe...
I live in a densely populated urban area. Traffic clogs the roads. Construction makes for long delays. I walk out onto the street and hear irate drivers leaning on their horns. As the daily commute...
I used to remember all my friend’s phone numbers. Indeed, there was a time when my working memory served a practical utility. I could pick up the phone and dial friends and family at will, no...