A Word on Mental Health

By Michael Kimmel I’ve lived in San Diego for 26 years and have been to a lot of PRIDE celebrations. I’ve been

By Michael Kimmel “Stress” is a very popular word. As a therapist, I hear it thrown around a lot: “I’m so stressed

By Michael Kimmel I am a voracious reader. I usually read two or three (or four) books a week. One

By Michael Kimmel Twenty-five years’ ago, one of my favorite Buddhist writers, Pema Chodron (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) published her book “When Things

By Michael Kimmel Life Beyond Therapy Many of us feel pressure to go to the gym. It’s heavily promoted like

By Michael Kimmel Remember when Abercrombie & Fitch was fashionable? The “A&F” logo appeared in all the chic magazines, and

By Michael Kimmel One of the things I love doing is helping people start new businesses. I consider it more

By Michael Kimmel After my last column titled Loneliness is Normal (thewordsd.news/loneliness-is-normal/), people asked me, “I feel especially lonely at

By Michael Kimmel Loneliness is normal. You can be the happiest, most loved person and – I guarantee – at

By Michael Kimmel This is not a column about psychedelics (I already wrote that column a while back). Nope, this