Almost twenty years ago, the most wonderful event happened to me. At a local pet store, I saw a beautiful yellow Labrador retriever for sale. I immediately took him home and named him Einstein.

Sadness is an emotion we often associate with breakups, job loss, or death. But it doesn’t only appear when catastrophe strikes. As psychotherapists and parent educators, we know sadness is also a ...

The thought of going to a funeral used to be a terrifying prospect for me. Walking into a room filled with sadness and grief evoked, well, an intense desire not to go. Anxiety was all I could feel. It ...

Everyone has those off days, the ones where you want to pull the blanket over your head, cancel all plans, and have a dramatic staring contest with the ceiling. That, dear reader, is often sadness.