Gretchen Friedlander, LPC

05/20/2026

I love this! I embarrass my friends by doing this. It’s consistent with science. https://www.instagram.com/npr/p/DYNjrYZIDGJ/

05/04/2026

03/14/2026

I found this interesting -

From the moment you take a sip, drinking starts to influence your biology. Here’s an inside look.

01/05/2024

Given the end of the holidays and the ongoing struggles in our world, I found this useful:

"In times of sustained anguish, empathy is a recipe for more distress, and in some cases even depression. What we need instead is compassion."

Feeling other people’s pain is not the best way to help them — or yourself.

03/06/2023

I just fell down a little rabbit hole-one of my aggregator emails mentioned the strengths of being a “highly sensitive person”, and so here are a couple of articles for the empaths and other HSPs.

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/15/visionaries-overemotional-people-happiness-sensitivity-smells-sounds

https://www.stylist.co.uk/health/mental-health/highly-sensitive-person-strengths/607195

One in five of us struggle to cope with everyday smells, sounds and images. Rather than a weakness, this extreme sensitivity could be a strength in everything from the pandemic to the climate crisis

02/17/2023

I just came across a wonderful blog from ASU. A couple of the stories that I read were powerful stories of trauma transformation. Enjoy!

Transformations is an online magazine of narrative essays focused on transformative, life-changing experiences and events, both personal and societal. Transformations is a media project of the Narrative Storytelling Initiative at Arizona State University.

07/01/2022

Another article on love and attachment. This one does a nice job of explaining some of the chemistry. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/?fbclid=IwAR30N2CVmCHP5_lA8itKLcYRS1L2wyeJrlATSsGiJaVvfpmXPifk84GvRw4 #:~:text=High%20levels%20of%20dopamine%20and,eat%20and%20can't%20sleep

by Katherine Wu figures by Tito Adhikary In 1993, Haddaway asked the world, “What is Love?” I’m not sure if he ever got his answer – but today, you can have yours. Sort of. Scientists in fields ranging from anthropology to neuroscience have been asking this same question (albeit less eloquen...

06/27/2022

I kind of hate to post this given everything that’s going on in our world right now, but I think it’s important information. I’ve seen this happen in a teen who used concentrated THC once. Reportedly.

With THC levels close to 100 percent, today’s cannabis products are making some teenagers highly dependent and dangerously ill.

02/15/2022

Nice, simple piece on attachment styles.

According to the field of attachment theory, each person has a unique attachment style that informs how that person relates to intimacy: secure, anxious or avoidant. We talk with Amir Levine, a neuroscientist and co-author of the book Attached, about how your attachment style can impact your relatio...

02/14/2022

What a wonderful body of research. Of course emotions have a place at work!

Her pioneering research showed that feelings have a place in the office, and that good leaders should learn to embrace that fact.