The Solomon Paradox: Can We Really Give Good Advice If We Don’t Know Ourselves?

The so-called Solomon paradox—the idea that people give wiser advice to others than they do to themselves—has a catchy appeal.

It feels true at first glance: we’ve all experienced how much easier it is to see someone else’s situation clearly while f...

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Bridging the Divide: The Gaps Between Coaching and Therapy

The Growing Overlap of Coaching and Therapy

In recent years, coaching and therapy have increasingly converged as critical support systems for professionals, especially executives and leaders. While each discipline has undeniable strengths, subtle te...

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Understanding Humility: Finding Your Exact Dimensions

Humility is often misunderstood as the act of shrinking oneself, remaining quiet, or deflecting recognition. Yet, authentic humility, as illuminated by the Mussar tradition—a Jewish practice focused on ethical and spiritual growth—is not about self-e...

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Executive Fatigue: Moving Beyond Superficial Solutions to Genuine Leadership Renewal

While well-intentioned, popular narratives around executive fatigue often oversimplify the profound mental, emotional, and operational pressures faced by today's leaders.

Encouraging executives merely to "pause and reflect" is beneficial but grossl...

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From Founder to CEO: The Challenges and Pressures of Startup Leadership

From Founder to CEO

Starting a company is often born from passion, vision, and the desire to create something impactful. Yet many founders quickly discover that founding a company and leading it as a CEO are fundamentally different roles, each requi...

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Reclaiming Confidence and Self-Trust

The Cost of Outsourcing Your Authority

In our desire to make the "right" choice or avoid failure, it's common to seek external validation or guidance for our decisions, thoughts, and emotions. While advice and insight from others can be valuable, co...

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When Dissociation is Mistaken for Insight

Recognizing Emotional Disconnects

 In therapy, the line between genuine insight and emotional dissociation can sometimes blur. Insight involves authentic emotional engagement, self-awareness, and understanding, enabling true personal growth and me...

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Therapists as Observers: When Emotional Disembodiment Flattens Human Depth

Therapists hold a unique and delicate role as observers of human behavior, emotion, and cognition.

Ideally, this role enables them to witness deeply personal experiences with compassion, clarity, and profound insight. However, when therapists become...

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Integration and Wholeness: Making Space for All of Who We Are

Why Wholeness Matters

Most people don’t need more goals. They need more coherence.

They know how to perform. They know how to over-function, overthink, or over-deliver. What they struggle with is bringing all parts of themselves into alignment so t...

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Are Other People Struggling Too? Why We Want to Know We’re Not Alone

We Want to Know We’re Not Alone

Sometimes we don’t need advice. We don’t need a reframe. We just want to know: Is anyone else carrying this kind of weight, too?

Not because we want to compare pain—but because we want to stop feeling like our strugg...

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