There are songs that shape us quietly, and then there are songs that crack us wide open. For me, “Closer to Fine” by the Indigo Girls has always been the latter. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve sung it at the top of my lungs with the windows down, wind in my hair,…
By Amanda Atlas | Future Marriage & Family Therapist We don’t become our true selves in a single moment of clarity.We become through a thousand small deaths—quiet, painful, and often invisible. Carl Rogers, the father of person-centered therapy, believed in the actualizing tendency—a deep inner drive to become more fully ourselves. But what often gets…