My practice is currently full. Please fill out the contact form below to be placed on the waitlist. I am a licensed clinical therapist offering telehealth and in-person psychotherapy in Philadelphia, PA through my independent private practice, Jodi Rhoden LCSW, LLC. I…

photo caption: summer solstice in the Scottish Highlands, 2024 *January 1st, 2025 Update:* together we raised $730 for Many Lands Mutual Aid and Rural Organizing and Resilience! The winners are: #1: Khalil, #2 Victor, #3 Oki, #4 Oki, and Keia won two!, and #5 is Zoe….

Home + The World is an occasional newsletter by Jodi Rhoden featuring personal essay, recipes, links and recommendations about finding home: within ourselves and in the world around us. Home + the World explores the ways we become exiled: through trauma, addiction,…

In 2020, that infamous year, I did a lot of quitting. In February, on the heels of quitting drinking, I quit my job at a local social justice non-profit. It just seemed to me that, after doing such a difficult, life-affirming thing as getting sober, there was no time…

Today is November 1st, known as Samhain, All Saints Day, or Dia de los Muertos, depending on your spiritual and cultural orientation. Last night, Halloween, was a bright, beautiful full moon in Taurus. We put out candy for the few intrepid trick-or-treaters, then we…

Write to the Asheville City Government Council before June 9th to demand cuts to Asheville Police Department’s $29.6 million budget and a NO on the $400,000 increase APD is requesting: esthermanheimer@avlcouncil.com, gwenwisler@avlcouncil.com,…

Yesterday I had a basically perfect day in the garden: I got up early to weed the bed that has been covered over with chickweed, that I was waiting until the last frost was past to uncover, then it rained for a week. It was supposed to rain more so I wanted to just…

I write this dispatch from late in the day on Mother’s Day. It has been sweet and warm today, after much ado about a potential frost last night, which I don’t think materialized, at least not from what I could tell from my garden. Today marks the end of…

How y’all doing out there? We’re on Week 7 of quarantine and thankful for our health, the roof over our heads, and a full pantry, even as life (and finances) seem to get more precarious every day. I keep finding myself in the kitchen- my attention span and…

Analog collage by Jodi Rhoden On Wednesday, April 22nd, at 10:26 pm Eastern, the moon is new at 3 degrees of fertile, sensual, and pleasure-loving Taurus, the first Earth sign of the astrological year. When the moon is new, she is in the same degree in the same zodiac…