by James Killian | Relationships
She’s mid-sentence, and something in you just goes. Your chest tightens, your heart picks up, and the words you had a second ago are gone. You stare at the table, or you say “I can’t do this right now” and leave the room. She reads it as you...
by James Killian | Stress & Anxiety
All day you were fine. Meetings, errands, the kid’s practice, dinner, the usual grind. Then the house goes quiet, you lie down, and something shows up that wasn’t there an hour ago. A racing heart. A loop of worry you can’t shut off. A dread with no...
by James Killian | Stress & Anxiety
The performance review is Thursday. It’s Monday. You’ve already run the conversation a dozen different ways in your head, most of them badly, and you haven’t even sat down with your boss yet. That’s anticipatory anxiety, the dread that shows up...
by James Killian | Stress & Anxiety
Somewhere along the way, people stopped saying you seem stressed and started just describing you that way. Intense. Serious. A little hard to reach. You’ve probably started believing it yourself, treating the edge in your voice and the shortened patience as...
by James Killian | Therapy For Men
You’ve thought about it. Probably more than once. Some version of “maybe I should talk to someone” has crossed your mind during a hard stretch, and then you did the thing almost every man does next. You checked it against some invisible bar in your...
