Dear Anita: Look Up!

Dear Anita, I spend a lot of time in my head. It’s a squirrelly place up there. I tend to get lost. I read a lot. Books and articles and opinion pieces. Then I catastrophize. Always with the catastrophizing. About different things....

Dear Anita: On the Importance of Outside Time

Dear Anita, The forecast called for rain, but I’m currently soaking in the last of the afternoon sun. A bright point in an otherwise daunting day. I don’t pretend to be well versed in the intricacies of our national politics,...

Dear Anita: Therapy is Hard

Dear Anita, Let’s be real, is there anything as needlessly uncomfortable as therapy? As raising your hand, as calling up a perfect stranger and declaring, “Hello, my name is Cassie and I can no longer manage my life, my relationships,...