Fixer Files

The Fixer Files. Support, don't Solve.™

Weekly essays for high performers, caregivers, leaders, athletes, and the deeply compassionate people who hold it all together for everyone else. Cases, patterns, and observations from a therapist who gets it. Short, specific, useful.

Leah Marone
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Featured edition

The Defensive Fixer

Emily is not trying to argue, she is trying to be understood. And being understood has never come easily. Emily is a Serial Fixer.

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Published & featured

Writing for Psychology Today, SHRM, Newsweek, and more.

Psychology Today

Caring Without Fixing

How to show up with compassion and let the other person own their journey.

Psychology Today

The New Boundary Crisis

Boundaries aren't just about relationships anymore. They're about how we relate to information, devices, and our own thoughts.

Psychology Today

Are You Serial Fixing the Emotional Baggage of Others?

When compassion masks burnout, blurred boundaries, and buried resentment.

Psychology Today

How to Improve Your Relationship With Yourself

The practice of self-check-ins as a path to self-awareness, confidence, and resilience.

Psychology Today

Resilience: The Power to Overcome, Adjust, and Persevere

Why resilience isn't about pushing through. It's earned through practice, reflection, and presence.

SHRM Executive Network

Support, Don't Solve: A 5-Step Path to Maintain Boundaries and Prevent Burnout

How leaders can show up for their teams without taking ownership of problems that aren't theirs.

SHRM Executive Network

The Serial Fixer: How Over-Solving Undermines Leadership

A framework for HR leaders who default to fixing everything for everyone.

Newsweek

Mastering Your Year-End Reflection

A personal roadmap to reflect, reframe, and rise in the new year.

The Atlantic

Educators and Work-Life Balance

Featured in The Atlantic on the realities of educator burnout and sustainability.

Carmel Current

Carmel Native Pens Book on Empathy and Balance

Hometown feature on Serial Fixer and the work behind it.

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