Freudian Psychoanalysis: A View From the Inside
Therapy helps us become our better selves. A book by Nicola Mendenhall speaks about her experience with 10 years on Freudian psychoanalysis....
Therapy helps us become our better selves. A book by Nicola Mendenhall speaks about her experience with 10 years on Freudian psychoanalysis....
A distorted version of self-love has invaded our collective Western psyche. It's not about pampering, it's about growth....
We crave perfection, and being seen as good, but none of us is always good or does everything perfectly....
Writing is like climbing a mountain, as any artistic expression, but we only have one life and one voice. The world needs to hear yours....
When you go through a crisis, the lessons you learn may not be obvious right away. It can take years until you grasp how it has changed you....
Memory is tricky. That’s why fact checking is so important when you write memoir....
As a foreigner, the Thanksgiving holiday didn't make sense to me, because its history seemed oddly detached from the celebration. Here is how I learned to love it....
“When he set the gun’s barrel on my forehead, my whole body went numb. I didn’t even feel the beating that came after.” This true story could have been told by anybody at the border right now....
My essay "My Books and I" has been chosen as a Notable Essay by the Best American Essays, 2019 edition....
Our naked bodies carry an essential purity that more often than not has been beaten out of us by prejudice, criticism, and self-hate....