October 2020

I recently completed a certificate in polyvagal theory, which taught me all about the vagus nerve and our biological imperative toward safety. I love the idea that what we all want most in any moment is to feel safe.

March 2019

In my latest installment for The New York Times, I took on the topic of procrastination and sought to answer why we knowingly engage in a behavior that makes us feel so bad. In my research, I wanted to get to the emotional heart of the matter: how and why do we harm ourselves in this way — and why? A few days after the article published, I was thrilled to share some of my favorite insights for a segment on CBS This Morning. Watch the clip here!

August 2018

I was initially drawn to wellness practices because of their promises — clarity, freedom, balance, calm. Many of us are. In recent years, however, I've felt cultural pressure to maintain healthy habits, such that it becomes yet another source of anxiety. The irony is crazy to me! I wrote something about all this — live now on The Harvard Business Review. 

November 2017

Everyone is obsessed with the word "authentic.” And it seems to be increasingly in the zeitgeist as our world becomes more digitized and curated. The interplay between our need for instant gratification and our nostalgia for “something real” is bizarre — charming sometimes (farm-to-table bistros), and quite insidious other times ("Make America Great Again"). I wrote an essay about authenticity for JSTOR Daily, an awesome online publication that explores contemporary issues using the scholarly repository of JSTOR.

June 2017
This year, I became a columnist for The Garrison Institute, whose mission is to demonstrate the importance of contemplative practices in our contemporary world. My beat is technology and intimacy, exploring the nexus of mindfulness and everyday emotions. My most recent column, "Anxious to Connect," examined the knot of complicated emotions many of feel when using social media

March 2017
I was grateful to be featured as one of four contributors for Marie Claire's International Women's Day campaign, #WhatIWishISaid. The series gave us a platform to recount an experience of silence in the face of sexism, and the opportunity to reclaim our voices. What we wish we had said.

June 2015
Last summer, I was honored to connect with Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff and Alexandra Brodsky, editors of the groundbreaking anthology The Feminist Utopia Project, published by The Feminist Press.  The collection invited its contributors to consider what it might be like to exist in a truly feminist world, and will ask the same of its readers. I am lucky to have a short essay and several poems published in the collection, along with other amazing feminist voices like Janet Mock, Sheila Heti and Mia McKenzie.