If you're someone who spends your days caring for others—as a parent, healthcare professional, therapist, teacher, caregiver, or simply the person everyone turns to—I wrote this week's issue, When Caring Hurts: Understanding Compassion Fatigue Without Shame, with you in mind. Yes, that's exactly where we're going in this week's edition, The Quiet Epidemic: Loneliness, Belonging & Emotional Health.

What therapy actually helps high-functioning people with A lot of high-performing people rule out therapy because they don’t believe they’re struggling “enough.” They’re managing. They’re functioning. They’re keeping it together. But managing is not the same as thriving. Functioning is not the same as feeling okay. And keeping it together is not the same as being at peace.

Valentine’s Day often brings to mind images of romantic dinners, heart-shaped chocolates, and couples exchanging gifts. But what if I told you that this day, so often reserved for celebrating love between partners, holds a deeper, more personal meaning? What if Valentine’s Day could be a gentle reminder to turn that love inward? To embrace self-love, self-acceptance, and self-compassion? This year, I invite you to join me in redefining Valentine’s Day as a celebration of the