Kristi De Young Psychology

https://substack.com/@kristideyoung

October Reflections — A Season of Endings and Beginnings Kristi De Young While I love this month for the obvious reasons (hello, Halloween 🎃), I’ve also come to notice that it’s a season of deep transition for many, especially here in Australia. There’s a sense of movement in the air — a quiet shifting from one chapter to the next. As the earth leans back toward the light and spring unfolds around us, we’re reminded that endings and beginnings often arrive hand in hand. It’

Howdy Friends, I’ve been walking alongside adolescents for more than two decades now, and this week especially I’ve been reminded of just...

I’m honest, patience has never come naturally to me. I’m a go-go-go, keep-swimming, forward-motion kind of gal. So finding myself in a season where I’m being asked to wait, to pause, to be still—it feels very unfamiliar. For the first time in my life, I don’t have a new goal or project in the works. And truthfully? It’s unnerving. In a conversation with a friend recently, we uncovered this idea: patience is really a form of waiting. Think about what we wait for—babies, birthd

Howdy Friends In this space I offer musings on psychology, the mind, body, and spirit—woven from nearly twenty years in the therapy chair...