If you have ever sat in a departure lounge with your heart hammering, running through every worst case scenario while everyone around you is sipping on overpriced coffee and scrolling their phone like nothing is wrong, you already know how isolating flight anxiety is. It is exhausting
Read more →If you have spent any time online over the last couple of years, you have probably run into the growing conversation around psychedelic-assisted therapy. Psilocybin, the compound in “magic mushrooms,” is being studied at major universities, offered in supervised clinics in a handful of places around the
Read more →Most people believe their phobia is a personal failing. Something wrong with their courage, their willpower, or their ability to just calm down and think logically. This belief is not only wrong, it is one of the most common reasons trauma and phobias stay stuck for decades
Read more →If you grew up being told exactly what to think, what to feel, and what would happen to you if you got either one wrong, you already know that walking away from that environment does not mean walking away from its effects. You can leave the building,
Read more →How to Identify Toxic Behavior and Reclaim Your Power If you are reading this, something has probably already shifted. Maybe you cannot explain exactly what is wrong, only that conversations leave you feeling more confused than when they started. Maybe you have begun to wonder whether your
Read more →Understanding the Architecture of Trauma Trauma is not simply something that happened to you in the past. It is something still happening inside your body right now, today. Long after the original threat has passed, the nervous system continues to carry its residue as a set of
Read more →Have you ever ended a relationship only to find yourself in an eerily similar one a few months later? Have you caught yourself tolerating treatment you swore you never would, staying silent when you needed to speak up, or choosing partners who somehow always manage to leave
Read more →There is a particular kind of exhaustion that no amount of sleep fixes. It comes from spending years performing a version of yourself that was never really you. From waking up already braced for the day’s invisible judgements. From silencing the parts of you that feel too
Read more →You know the moment. The room goes quiet. Someone directs a question your way. And before a single word leaves your mouth, you feel it: that familiar, unwelcome surge of heat rising up your neck and flooding your face. Blushing during presentations and business meetings is one
Read more →The birth of a child is supposed to be a beginning. However, for many women, a traumatic birth experience feels like an ending. If you went through a medical emergency, felt unheard during labor, feared for your life or the life of your baby, your mind might
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