10 years of Superhero Therapy

It’s been exactly ten years since I started this Superhero Therapy website and over 11 years since I started doing this work.

My first ever post on the Superhero Therapy website was about the San Diego Comic Con. It was about Geek Therapy and the intersection of pop culture and mental health. It was about the work of Josué Cardona and Travis Langley.

It is wild how much can change in 10 years:

Continue reading 10 years of Superhero Therapy

Harry Potter Therapy Podcast Surpasses 100K Downloads!

We’re so excited to announce that the Harry Potter Therapy Podcast has reached 100k downloads. Thank you so much to all our magical listeners out there! We love and appreciate each and every one of you.

To celebrate this exciting milestone we are giving away 10 FREE copies of Dr. Scarlet’s book, “Harry Potter Therapy,” which can be personally signed to you (U.S. only), as well as a FREE Hera dragopurr emotional support plushie.

Continue reading Harry Potter Therapy Podcast Surpasses 100K Downloads!

On being anti-racist

“The opposite of a hero is not a villain. It’s a bystander”

-Matt Langdon (Founder of The Hero Construction Company)

In the very beginning of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Stormtroopers, under the leadership of the militant, Kylo Ren, invade the planet Jakku. Ren kills Lor San Tekka, a resistance ally who refuses to betray his people. Kylo Ren then orders the Stormtroopers to execute all villagers.  An interesting side note about Stormtroopers – the term Stormtrooper actually refers to Imperial German soldiers from World War I, and is also possibly a derivative of the word Sturmabteilung (“Storm Detachment”), which was a military organization of the German Nazi Party, which helped Hitler rise to power. Continue reading On being anti-racist

All the lonely people

“All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they belong?”

-The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby”

A car honk. An angry, frustrated driver. People yelling obscenities through their rolled up windows that no one else hears. And all through it all, feeling the soul-ripping, devastating effects of social loneliness.

Continue reading All the lonely people

On the Couch Ep 9: Spider-Man

Spider-Man visits Dr. Scarlet and discovers that both he and Peter Parker share the responsibility of their heroic actions as well as their self-care.