Katie Kyle

Imagine an alien accidentally teleported to your neighborhood and started exploring your favorite stomping grounds. What would they …see? …hear? …smell? …taste? …feel? What conclusions would they draw about their new environment? Would they be able to pinpoint the country? state? city? street? The answer is…maybe.   Anthropologists believe that “place” is shaped by our …

Expanding Our Collective Consciousness Read More »

Over the last decade, therapy has become more common and less stigmatized in popular culture. Millennials and Gen Z are talking more openly than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did about their experiences with depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. This destigmatization has certainly saved lives. But lessening the stigma against it does not make …

Therapy is not…. Read More »

   My mind does not share the quiet and stillness one normally would expect with today’s social distancing and quarantines. It is filled with a whirlwind of kinetic thought, debating how we got here and where we are going, between our focus on the me and our irresponsible neglect of the importance of we, between …

A Time to Stand and To Stare — Earth’s Vacation & Our Time-Out Read More »