by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was on a first date on January 6, 2020, walking on Stinson Beach with a lovely artist who I wound up going on five dates with before he decided he wasn’t into me. We were less than an hour into our date, marveling with some sadness at an array of dead blue jellyfish...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 4, 2026 | Creativity, IFS, Mental Health, Work Life Purpose, Writing
Happy 2026 everyone! I’m kind of reeling after reading in the New York Times about our President kidnapping another country’s President (and his wife) and vowing to “run Venezuala” in what looks like an act of unauthorized war on a sovereign country. So my shocked,...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Dec 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
My partner Jeff and I are a bit behind the cultural times. While everyone else was binging Ted Lasso during the pandemic, we were busy on the front lines of trying to support a world in crisis — Jeff on the front lines of the mental health epidemic at Harvard, and me...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jul 5, 2025 | Writing
When I don’t know what to say because I’m in shock at what’s happening in our country, when it would be easier to stay silent than to try to give words to something unnameably unjust, when parts of me want to employ magical thinking, to live in pretend land for just a...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Apr 18, 2025 | Creativity, IFS, Mental Health, Writing
When it comes to healing, justice is big. Many trauma survivors struggle because their childhoods were so unjust, and then because history repeats itself, this often sets them up for relationships and jobs where the injustices play out again. And then there are the...
