For many people, therapy can be prohibitively expensive. While our medical costs are usually covered by some type of insurance, therapy often is not. And even if your insurance does cover therapy, there can be some major drawbacks, such as: a long waiting list, either weeks or months; high copays, sometimes as much as private therapy would cost on its own; and the necessity of a diagnosis, which can stay on a person’s medical record forever If you do not have insurance that c

Our culture—and perhaps all of human culture—places a premium on a person’s ability to help others. To help oneself is portrayed as selfish and egotistical at the worst, of secondary importance at the best. This becomes a problem, however, when everyone is so busy lending a hand to others that they forget about themselves. As a reaction against this, the popular analogy often used these days is of securing your own oxygen mask before helping others to secure theirs. Without g