by David Bowman, LMFT | Dec 4, 2025 | Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Nov 22, 2025 | General, Relationships, Therapy
Marcel Proust had his temps perdu [lost times], and Thomas Wolfe told us we can’t go home again. The snows of yesteryear have evaporated into thin air, and like them, the days and times of our youth are gone. When we visit an old familiar place, such as an old...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured, General, Life Coaching, Therapy
Understanding Depression as a Signal When clients tell me they feel depressed, I’m rarely surprised. We’re living through an era marked by collective stress and uncertainty. In the span of just two decades, we’ve witnessed the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Oct 9, 2025 | Addiction, Dating, Featured, Recovery, Relationships, Sex, Therapy
Addiction is a kind of runaway train that leaves the station when we stop dealing with our emotions, stop living our fullest lives, and stop wanting to cope with whatever life throws at us. Addiction is a kind of vacation from life that eventually becomes the Vacation...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured, General, Therapy
Life seems to get more complicated by the hour these days. Modern life, plugged as it is into a 24/7 news cycle, calls (more like demands) us to respond and in doing so to choose between one version of ourselves or another at a moment’s notice. Even in home life, we...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Aug 31, 2024 | Featured, LGBT, Life Coaching, Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
Readers of this blog may be surprised by my sudden reappearance in this space. The truth is that over the past three years I have focused my writing and spare time on finishing a project that has been in the works for me for over 10 years. My online course and e-book...