There is a story that many women carry without knowing it – a story so deeply woven into their sense of who they are that it doesn’t feel like a story at all. It feels like fact. Like just the way things are. Like who they actually are. The story goes something like this: A...

When most people think about therapy, they think about it as a response to pain. Something has broken — a relationship, a pattern of behavior, the ability to function normally — and therapy is the place you go to fix it. That framing is understandable. And it’s not wrong. Therapy is enormously valuable for people...