Dr. Karina

05/22/2026

05/16/2026

My office today.🥳

04/03/2026

For the record. From the actual experts in the field. I do not aim to change anyone’s personal or political beliefs, but this form of so-called “therapy” is deeply unethical and dangerous.

APA Statement | The Supreme Court Decision in Chiles v. Salazar https://ow.ly/MIlM50YBKXJ

03/24/2026

Liminal spaces can feel surreal and uncomfortable. This is why so few people willingly enter the wilderness of their own lives. Rather they stick to the well worn path that is safe, predictable, “stable.” They develop personas to hide their own aching truth. The most important thing I want to tell you is this: You do not have to fully understand this space to inhabit it. Our brains love more than anything to make sense and meaning out of all situations. But surreal doesn’t mean unstable. Often it means: You are in the middle of something that hasn’t fully arrived yet. That’s the disorientation we must learn to tolerate when we’re deep in the backcountry of our own becoming. And here’s the part many of us resist: You actually don’t need to resolve this feeling. Just don’t fight it. Let it be strange. Let it be in-between. And keep putting one real foot in front of the other. Brava! You got out of the boat! Now keep going.

Dr. Karina McGovern Chace🖤

02/09/2026

When nothing makes sense anymore, it isn’t always a mental health crisis. Sometimes it’s a meaning crisis.

Sometimes it’s what happens when the stories that once organized life—work, love, progress, goodness—stop matching reality, and no new shared story has taken their place.

I don’t think people are weak for struggling right now. I think many of us are grieving a world that no longer functions the way we were prepared to inhabit it.

This is what happens when collective trust erodes, when systems lose legitimacy, when truth fragments, and when people are asked to adapt endlessly without meaning, without accountability, and without repair. Many of us are living after a rupture that hasn’t been named.

It feels like we woke up in a world that no longer recognizes the people we were taught to become. The grief comes from realizing that the old maps don’t work—and no one handed us new ones, only demands to keep moving.

I don’t want optimism. I want honesty. I want meaning. I want a way to live with integrity inside whatever this world is becoming. Meaning is oxygen to me. I cannot live without it.

Dr. Karina Chace

02/01/2026

The music doesn’t just stop. It warps. You’re still standing there, but the tempo of the world no longer matches your body. Innocence isn’t something you can go back and retrieve. It’s gone in the way childhood homes sometimes are gone — condemned, unsafe, unrecognizable.

There’s a very specific grief that comes when: you’ve seen too much, you’ve been hurt in ways that can’t be reframed, the old motivators (ambition, optimism, “anything is possible”) no longer feel honest. The world tells people in that place to “get inspired again” or “dream bigger,” but that actually feels violent — because it asks you to pretend the house isn’t boarded up.

You’re living in the aftermath of having your illusions shattered — about love, about systems, about safety, about how much harm people can do without consequence. There is no going back to the old life.
That door is closed.

But that doesn’t mean there is no life. … To be continued.❤️

01/11/2026

Sorry, guys!!!❤️

It's been a hot minute! Rather than say "happy new year," I would like to invite you to have the bravest, soulfulest, and most aligned year you could possibly have. "Happy" is far overrated. Go deeper. And yes, please, take a breath here and there, like all the time, it’s a sacred rebellion. Self-care is not overrated. And if anyone gives you s**t for resting, you give them my number, I'll sort them out.😂

Love,
Dr. Karina