If you've been researching trauma therapy, you've probably landed on these two names more than once: EMDR and Brainspotting. They're both evidence-informed, body-based approaches that go deeper than talk therapy. They both work with the nervous system rather than just the narrative. And therapists who...
Caretaking codependency is the pattern of feeling responsible for keeping everything emotionally steady in your relationships — anticipating, repairing, explaining, holding it all together. For many people, it starts long before adulthood. It begins in childhood , when you learned, implicitly or explicitly, that love,...
"Sometimes walking away is the only way to stop walking away from yourself." — Unknown I was between sessions. My TV was on in the background — something I'd half-started watching called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu — as I walked into...
I had a dream I was back in elementary school. No one would play with me. I kept wondering, why does this always happen to me? That soft ache from childhood — the loneliness, the not-belonging — was still there. I lay down to sleep...