Many people enter therapy hoping for relief. They want fewer intrusive thoughts, less anxiety, more energy, and a sense of emotional stability. When therapy instead brings stronger emotions, resurfacing memories, or even physical discomfort, people often question...
The term “glass children” refers to neurotypical children who grow up alongside a sibling with a disability or chronic illness. The phrase captures a painful and often lifelong experience. These children are not unloved, but they are frequently unseen. Their needs are...
Many clients who come to the Rowan Center describe the same frightening shift in their emotional and cognitive functioning. They say things like “I used to be so capable. Now even small tasks make my chest tighten” or “I feel like my brain suddenly stopped working.”...
Chronic illness does not follow a clean narrative. There is rarely a straight line from diagnosis to adjustment to resolution. Instead, many people experience cycles of flare and remission, adaptation and setback, hope and disappointment. Despite this reality,...
Chronic pain is rarely just about pain. In clinical practice, it presents as a multidimensional experience that affects cognition, emotion, behavior, identity, and participation in daily life. Patients are not simply reporting symptoms. They are navigating disrupted...
There is a particular narrative that surfaces in midlife. A woman who has long described herself as patient begins to feel irritable. Someone who once tolerated emotional labor quietly finds herself less willing to absorb it. Anger, which may have been tightly...
