Los Angeles is an awesome place to convene with like‑minded people in small venues to enjoy new music, food, art, comedy, yoga, lectures, and the occasional mind‑bending sermon.
Is There Such a Thing as ‘Capitalist Depression’?
What can we do to humanize late capitalism and make it less depressing?
hat can we do to humanize late capitalism and make it less depressing?
What Is Status Coding?
Our culture embodies mutually-exclusive beliefs in tribalism and individual exceptionalism.
Our culture embodies mutually-exclusive beliefs in tribalism and individual exceptionalism.
Got Caps? How Much Time and Energy Do You Spend to Look Good…
Then resent people for objectifying you?
Then resent people for objectifying you?
What Percentage of Your Mental Life Is Influenced in Some Way by Money?
Let’s unpack some of the illusions that shape our financial decisions, often subconsciously
Let’s unpack some of the illusions that shape our financial decisions, often subconsciously
Could Enlightenment Mean Accepting Our Own Insignificance?
What if the drive to be “somebody” is what fuels our anxiety and depression?
What if the drive to be “somebody” is what fuels our anxiety and depression?
10 Ways to Stop and Preclude Couples From Fighting
Making someone feel heard is very different from listening.
Making someone feel heard is very different from listening.
Can Artificial Intelligence Spice Up Your Love Life?
Dating should be about sharing experiences, not about interviewing a person to see if they can play the role of sidekick in the script in your head.
Dating should be about sharing experiences, not about interviewing a person to see if they can play the role of sidekick in the script in your head.
Lessons I Learned From My Father
Looking back this Father’s Day, which also coincides with my father’s 85th birthday, here are some lessons that I learned from him that shaped my life
Looking back this Father’s Day, which also coincides with my father’s 85th birthday, here are some lessons that I learned from him that shaped my life
The Hellscape of Modern Dating… And Then We All Got Pets
For people disillusioned with the current dating scene and exhausted by the emotional toil of perpetual tacit rejection and inexplicable ghosting, pets offer the love and affection they are seeking
For people disillusioned with the current dating scene and exhausted by the emotional toil of perpetual tacit rejection and inexplicable ghosting, pets offer the love and affection they are seeking
Is a Cartier Love Bracelet Really a Modern-Day Chastity Belt?
Rather than locking women away, it now locks out those who lack the socioeconomic bonafides to match its implicit lifestyle of leisure and luxury.
Rather than locking women away, it now locks out those who lack the socioeconomic bonafides to match its implicit lifestyle of leisure and luxury.
‘Life Is Weird, Other People Are Assh*les, and Nobody Really Knows Anything About Anything’
When you expect nothing, disappointment becomes an impossibility, and miracles abound.
When you expect nothing, disappointment becomes an impossibility, and miracles abound.
36 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Became a Psychotherapist
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” ~ Mike Tyson
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” ~ Mike Tyson
The Culture of Fabricated Self-Importance
Our reluctance to confront misbehavior perpetuates a cycle in which individuals feel emboldened to act with impunity.
Our reluctance to confront misbehavior perpetuates a cycle in which individuals feel emboldened to act with impunity.
I’m Not Sure Who You Think I Am and I’m Not Sure Who I Think I Am Either
In my work as a spiritually oriented psychotherapist, I have come to believe not in enlightenment, but in awakening.
In my work as a spiritually oriented psychotherapist, I have come to believe not in enlightenment, but in awakening.
‘I’M SCREAMING AT YOU BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME!!!’
Conflicts in relationships are often rooted in unmet emotional needs and desires for connection, understanding, appreciation and validation.
Conflicts in relationships are often rooted in unmet emotional needs and desires for connection, understanding, appreciation and validation.