Krystle Robinson, PsyD, LLC

01/12/2026

New research shows exercise is as effective as medication at reducing symptoms of depression. And you don't need to run a marathon to see benefits. So how much is enough?

11/09/2025

When we meet our pain with tenderness instead of resistance, we discover an inner strength that surprises us. Self-compassion expands what’s possible within us—it’s how we learn to hold life’s challenges with courage and care.

09/23/2025

ACOG reaffirms the safety and benefits of acetaminophen use during pregnancy.
More than two decades of research have found no causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in children. Acetaminophen continues to be an important and safe option for managing pain and fever in pregnancy—conditions that can pose serious risks to pregnant patients and their fetuses if left untreated. Learn more about acetaminophen use during pregnancy: https://bit.ly/4mqIzWr

09/18/2025

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Sleep has a huge impact on our health. It helps our brains function, protects against heart disease and supports our immune system. And without it, we would die.

But for something so important, we aren't formally taught how to do it right, says Rebecca Robbins, a sleep scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "In America, you learn about nutrition or s*x ed in school, but never about sleep."

To help educate the public about healthy sleep, Robbins and her colleagues identified popular myths about sleep and debunked them in a 2019 paper published in the journal Sleep Health. They looked at statements such as "many adults need only 5 or less hours of sleep" and "it does not matter what time of day you sleep." And they found that these claims had "a limited or questionable evidence base."

Robbins walks through some of these myths with Life Kit and shares some much-needed tips on how to get better sleep. Read the story here: https://n.pr/4mlOr3p

09/11/2025

Unlike mental health professionals, chatbots are designed to keep you engaged—not necessarily to support your well-being.

Learn more about why ChatGPT shouldn't be your therapist: https://at.apa.org/a51dd1

06/17/2025

To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.

03/25/2025

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It’s IMPORTANT to acknowledge that people come in all shapes and sizes. The only way to reduce weight stigma, which contributes to prejudice, suffering, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, is to stop passing on the baggage of weight bias.⁠
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It’s important for us to use the word “fat” neutrally, in the same way we use the word “thin.” Otherwise we will continue to perpetuate weight stigma. It’s okay to just say what fat is. You can use this response ⁠whether your child asks why a person is fat or skinny. ⁠
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If you’d like to think more about how to talk to your child about their weight and health, there’s an amazing article in our Learning Center that gives you scripts for what to say in situations like your child saying, “I’m fat!” ⁠
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DM or comment weighttalk24 (make sure there are no spaces) and I’ll send you a DM with the link to the article: How to Talk to Your Kids About Weight & Health: A Parent’s Guide.⁠
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I’ve been diving into child health research lately, and I think the focus on weight is one of the biggest child health tragedies of the century. ⁠
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If we focused on *health*, we’d have to face the injustices in our society that affect children’s health. But because we’ve focused on weight, the only thing to really talk about is individuals changing something to change their weight. Focusing on weight hurts individuals who experience discrimination and bullying, disordered eating and eating disorders, among other negative things. ⁠
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Focusing on weight also distracts us from the doing the things that would actually help the health of children overall.⁠
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There’s not a child obesity epidemic, there’s a child health crisis. Children are experiencing chronic diseases, eating disorders, and more. And we’re distracted from this by focusing on weight.⁠
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🚨Only civil comments, please. I do not tolerate comments that aren’t. Thank you for your patience as sometimes there is a lag before I get to all the comments.⁠
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01/27/2025

January is the month of broken New Year's resolutions, returning to work, financial stress from gift giving, and cold winter weather.

So if you feel the anxiety rising from the post-holiday blues, try box breathing. This mindful breathing technique can help you stay focused and alert, yet calm.

👉 Inhale through the nose for four counts.
👉 Hold your breath for four more.
👉 Exhale for the next four.
👉 Hold for four more.

11/06/2024

Let’s remember a lesson from
When Bing B**g loses his wagon, his prized possession, his connection to Riley’s childhood. He’s shattered. Joy, ever the relentless optimist, pushes him to get up, shake it off, and keep moving forward. She’s charismatic, persuasive, unflappable.

But Bing B**g can’t just “get up.” He’s too broken, too deep in his sorrow.

Sadness comes, who doesn’t try to fix him, doesn’t try to hustle him out of his pain. She just sits with him, lets him speak his grief, honors what that wagon meant to him. And it’s only in that quiet, connected space that Bing B**g begins to heal.

He finds the strength to get back up, not because someone pushed him, but because someone listened and was willing to “be with”him- authentically.

The lesson is sometimes, life hits us hard, and the solution isn’t to bounce back instantly or power through. Sometimes, we need to feel the weight, sit in it, let it say what it has to say. Because only when we acknowledge that sadness can we truly move forward.

So today, if things feel heavy, don’t rush. Take the time you need. And when you’re ready, we’ll be here—ready to move forward together.
~ Cary

09/12/2024

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New research shows long-term psychoanalytic therapy outperforms CBT for depression in childhood trauma survivors.

08/03/2024

Nurturing mental wellness is as important as treating mental illness, according to a psychologist treating Olympic and Paralympic athletes in Paris.

07/23/2024

Before you react, read the whole caption. First a few notes:⁠
- When you have chocolate, simply enjoy it with your child (without comment), this is the best way for everyone to have a good relationship with it⁠
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- this post is specifically for the case when your child said someone told them their chocolate/candy was “unhealthy,” not a recommendation that you bring up this topic with your child⁠
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- this post is not recommending you start telling kids there are “sometimes foods” “yellow foods” or explain that we need to eat a lot of some foods and a little of other foods⁠
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Foods are morally neutral, that doesn’t mean they are the same. Foods can be different and good at the same time. Kids are surrounded by messages that say that foods are either bad or good. When someone throws that message in their face, it can be powerful to refame for them by communicating, “sure, it’s different, but it’s still good - we need all the different kinds of foods.”⁠
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When my son came home from school at age 5 telling him his friend told him chocolate was unhealthy, I came up with “some foods do a few things and some foods do a lot of things” on the spot. Ever since that conversation, when someone tells him that his chocolate is unhealthy (and it’s happened every year), he comes home angry with them and tells me “Just because it does a few things in your body doesn’t make it bad.”⁠
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This is an important idea and I’m glad that I got to give it to him during a key period in his development so that it’s stuck with him. He can’t escape the messages that foods are different and the opinions that foods are bad, but he can have the idea that different doesn’t equal “bad.”⁠
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We’re feeding kids in a complicated world. There is no playbook. There is no research telling us specifically what to say to our kids in the face of diet culture, the food industry, child health issues, and more. One thing is sure though, we do need to teach our kids to think critically, to have nuance (once their brains are developmentally ready for that), and to trust their bodies. ⁠