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Why Does Every Small Decision Feel So Hard? Understanding Decision Fatigue
Decision fatigue is the drop in the quality of your choices after a long stretch of making them. Here is why it happens and what helps.

Odile McKenzie, LCSW
Sep 225 min read


How to Have Hard Conversations Without Destroying the Relationship
Hard conversations don't have to blow everything up. Therapists use these research-backed strategies to help people say what they need to say, without losing the relationship in the process.

Odile McKenzie, LCSW
Apr 126 min read


Why Your Boss Feels So Familiar: How We Recreate Family Dynamics at Work
The roles you learned to survive at home — the overachiever, the peacekeeper, the one who disappears — don't stay there. Family systems theory and psychoanalytic research explain why our earliest relationship patterns follow us into every workplace we enter, and what it actually takes to change them.

Odile McKenzie, LCSW
Mar 176 min read
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