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3 Ways to Help Your Therapist Help You

Therapy can be transformative, but its efficacy hinges not only on the skills of your therapist. It requires developing an active interest in the process and a willingness to do the work.

Below I explore how to identify the proper treatment for your needs, the compounding benefits of simply showing up, and the value (and consequences) of brutal honesty.

Broadly, most private practice psychotherapy can be categorized into two approaches: ta

The dissociative experience of ketamine is often described as a side effect. For me, it’s experiential psychotherapy.

This is not medical advice, and I’m not a physician. This post is unsponsored and contains no affiliate links. Do not do what I did, as described below.

Even as an experienced psychonaut, nothing could have prepared me for the dissociative drug experience.

When I took my first few doses of legally prescribed oral ketamine, written off-label via telehealth and shipped discreetl

Online Gaming in the Wild West of KYC
As the frontier of online gaming expands, advances in KYC (Know Your Customer) technologies and regulations present just as many exciting opportunities as challenges. Let's be real; no one wants the perennial Fintech regulation headaches baked directly into your business model. But also, nobody said in

Stress is a normal part of life, but the effects can be devastating when it gets out of control and becomes a constant. Stress reduction techniques can improve your health and well-being. To define stress, let’s try to break it down and understand some basics to have some reference points to move from. First we need to understand that there are two kinds of stress and they are known as Eustress (good stress) and Distress (bad stress). Keep this in mind as we explore how stress affects our

Full Stack Observability (FSO) is a new way of looking at technology infrastructure that enables you to understand and manage your entire application stack.
Our S.I.M.P.L.E. approach provides the ability to drill down into any component to see what’s going on. This allows developers, operations teams, and business leaders alike to understand how their applications are performing and find issues quickly. The goal is always to reduce mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) so that you can get back up and running faster.

Isn’t it surreal how numbers become so abstract, so quickly?

A thought experiment: how would you visualize the number one hundred and fifty-thousand, in human lives? Do you see a mosaic of roaring fans packed into a couple of football stadiums, while you circle above in a Goodyear™ blimp? Perhaps you’re standing on top of the Empire-State building…