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 | 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...
by James Killian | Personal Growth
You didn’t mean to snap like that. The trigger was small, a comment, a delay, a kid ignoring you for the third time, and the reaction that came out was way bigger than the moment deserved. You know it. You could feel it happening even as it was happening, and...
by James Killian | Therapy & Coaching
It’s the most common advice out there, and it’s almost useless. Just put the phone down. Just use it less. Just have more discipline. Anyone who’s actually tried to follow that advice already knows it doesn’t hold up past day three, and...
by James Killian | Personal Growth
Most advice about phone addiction assumes you’re willing to become a different kind of person entirely. Delete every app. Get a flip phone. Move to a cabin. That advice isn’t wrong exactly, it would probably work, but it’s also completely unrealistic...
