When Functional Labels Hijack Therapy
Functional labels in therapy can feel protective, yet they quietly block healing. Learn how over-labeling keeps you distant from the emotional work that creates change.
Trauma and Attachment in Adult Relationships | Why Your Relationship Checklist Is Not Working
Your nervous system learned its rules about closeness long before you did. Here is why the pattern keeps repeating, and what actually shifts it.
The Black Hole of Hyper-Independence: Why Smart People Stifle Their Own Trauma Recovery
The more capable you look on the outside, the lonelier the inside gets. Here's why hyper-independence might be blocking your own healing.
Neurodivergent Perfectionism and the Power of Pacing
Discover how neurodivergent perfectionism shapes trauma recovery in AuDHD adults and why nervous system pacing is the ultimate antidote to healing.
Decoding Feelings in ADHD/Autistic Relationships
How overthinking can trap us in unproductive mental loops, preventing effective solutions and increasing stress at the expense of coregulation.
Somatic psychotherapy is an integrative mind-body approach
Mindfulness Based Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy is an integrative mind-body approach to growth and healing that includes mindfulness and work with implicit memory.
Writing learning and memory
Writing, Memory and Learning in Therapy
While you are writing, you are using a part of your brain that is different from the part of the brain where you are listening or speaking. Sometimes it is a way of disconnecting.
In defense of defensiveness
In Defense of our Defense Mechanisms
The journey to self-compassion lies in developing greater tolerance of the body’s defense mechanisms that show up as defensiveness.
Therapy session-preparing for trauma work
Preparing for Trauma Work in Therapy
If you want to prepare for therapy, one of the best things you can do prior to your session is to do some background reading on how trauma manifests and about the therapeutic approach decided upon by you and your therapist.