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 | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured, Men's Issues, Relationships, Women's Issues
From Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” “All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes, whereas everything that one is wont to call giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Feb 3, 2021 | Couples, COVID, Dating, Relationships, Singles
For both singles and couples, long periods of isolation or cocooning with just one or two others has taken an unexpected emotional toll. This two-part article examines a few of the ways, some healthy and some questionable—though understandable—that we cope with our...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Feb 3, 2021 | Couples, COVID, Dating, Relationships, Singles
For both singles and couples, long periods of isolation or cocooning with just one or two others have taken an unexpected emotional toll. This two-part article examines a few of the ways, some healthy and some questionable—though understandable—that we cope with our...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Apr 15, 2018 | Featured, LGBT, Relationships, Sex, Therapy
It was a frightening realization of my early 30s that had I not moved away from my family and my hometown when I did, I would already have been dead. I have no doubt that I would have committed suicide by the time I was 25, I felt so alone and ashamed and afraid of my...
