Aundi Kolber

In a world that preaches a "try harder" gospel-just keep going, keep hustling, keep pretending we're all fine-we're left exhausted, overwhelmed, and so numb to our lives. If we're honest, we've been overfunctioning for so long, we can't even imagine another way. How else will things get done?...

For those of us who've learned to survive by pleasing, performing and over-accommodating, leaving ourselves can feel like the price of belonging. With her signature warmth, compassion, and expert clinical insight, trauma therapist and author of Try Softer Aundi Kolber reminds us we can unlearn...

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we’ve all heard the platitudes: “No pain, no gain.” “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But if we spend our lives trying to be “the strong one,” we become exhausted, burned-out...