Sometimes you leave a conversation and something inside you feels off. Nothing dramatic happened. No one insulted you. No obvious line was crossed. The interaction may have even seemed thoughtful or polite. And yet your body feels different afterward — slightly smaller, tight somewhere in...
In a recent piece I wrote for Psychotherapy Networker on recognizing everyday dissociation, I explored the idea that dissociation does not always look dramatic. It does not always look like lost time, total numbness, or completely checking out. More often, it looks ordinary. Dissociation is...
Some things we carry don’t have language. They live in the body—in tension, in breath, in the parts of us that flinch or freeze without knowing why. If you’ve ever wondered why you still feel tight, on edge, exhausted, or “off” even when life looks...
If you are chronically exhausted — even after addressing sleep, hormones, workload, and stress — the fatigue may not be purely physical. It may be relational. Many women who appear high-functioning on the outside are quietly running a constant emotional scan. Monitoring tone. Anticipating conflict....