Perspectives on Mental Health, Wealth, and Family Systems
Essays on the emotional patterns that influence how people live, decide, and relate within families and systems, including the amplifying effects of financial abundance.
The intersection of wealth, mental health, and family systems
An analysis of how financial structures, inherited expectations, and family dynamics influence emotional experience and decision-making under pressure and during transition.
The sibling who doesn’t create problems often becomes the one who carries them later. What feels manageable in one phase of a family’s life can quietly become unsustainable in another.
A look at how the Adelson case reveals the dangers of family control, wealth, and loyalty, and what it means for parents striving for healthier dynamics.
Additional essays and reflections
Essays and reflections on identity, resilience, movement, and the quieter moments that reveal change, drawn from clinical insight and lived experience.
Mood is often shaped less by what happened and more by the distance between what was expected and what occurred. Expectations can steady us or destabilize us, depending on how rigidly they are held.
Pilates changed me slowly. A class here, a breath there, and then the unmistakable feeling that I was more grounded and more myself. I wanted to understand why, so I started reading. The research confirmed what my body already knew.
Saying no often triggers guilt, anxiety, and escalation. This essay explores the neuroscience and psychology behind that discomfort and why consistent limits support growth, autonomy, and long term stability.
A simple reflection on how five gratitude journals helped me notice the small moments that make life feel softer, supported by research and my own quiet evidence.
You are not imagining it. This time of year really does change how we feel. The light shifts, the body adjusts, and our mood follows. Learn what is happening biologically and how to stay balanced as the days grow shorter.
How to protect yourself, hold boundaries, and break free from someone who always makes everything your fault.
It’s heartbreaking to want to help someone who won’t accept your care. This is the quiet anguish of love that has nowhere to land, and the delicate work of holding hope anyway.
I would not call myself someone who thrives on constant motion. I actually love stillness and quiet, but I do like feeling capable. I like knowing I can do the basics of life without thinking twice. When surgery forces me to scale back even further than I am used to, it is not just inconvenient. It is deeply frustrating.
My close friend Abby passed away 10 years ago. Today, and many other days, I ask myself how I can honor Abby’s legacy. And I’ve realized that Abby’s memory is integrated into my life.
As a teenager, I remember seeing the book “When someone you love is depressed: how to help your loved one without losing yourself” on my mother’s nightstand. I remember feeling appalled by seeing this book. I thought to myself, who needs this type of book? Is it that difficult? My teenage ego-centric brain could not understand why this book existed and thought my mom should get a life. I only recognized years later that she was, in fact, trying to get a life then.
I recently decided to revamp my website. I planned to hire someone to do the work for me, but a friend recommended I check out Squarespace to create a website on my own. She created her website this way and thought I could too. My initial reaction to this was a hard no. Doesn’t my friend know how bad I am with technology? Isn’t this the same friend who took a coding class for fun? I came up with a number of reasons to support my no and upon examining the evidence, my reasons didn’t hold up. My emotional mind said no but my wise mind said yes.
A place to think more clearly
Perspectives offers writing for moments when situations feel tangled, charged, or difficult to name, creating space to understand what is unfolding before deciding what comes next.