“You can’t buy a ticket for a train that’s not at the station. This isn’t like vacation where it costs less if you buy it in advance. You don’t even know if this train is coming. That is not how to deal with suffering and pain. Or, shall I say, possible suffering and pain.” I […]
The Fawn Response and the Difference Between Niceness and Kindness
Being a “Nice Girl” and the Fawn Response One of my supervisees said something to me once that I haven’t stopped repeating since: “nice girls end up in trunks.” She wasn’t being dramatic. She was naming something super real; something a lot of us learned the hard way. We learned the habit of being endlessly […]
Finding Your Calm: A Dysregulation Toolkit
Dysregulation Toolkit Life sometimes stacks itself into heavy weeks where the nervous system sprints from one alarm to the next. When that happens, most of us try to push through, only to find our focus fades and our bodies tighten. This conversation invites a slower, kinder approach: grounded awareness paired with small, repeatable actions that […]
Why Hope Isn’t an Outcome, It’s an Anchor
What is Hope and How is it Not a Swear Word? Hope is one of the most overused and misunderstood words in healing spaces, yet it holds surprising depth when we stop tying it to outcomes and start treating it as a way of seeing. Today we’re exploring hope as a lens grounded in reality: […]
Why Resolutions Often Fail (and What Helps Instead)
The Anatomy of Resolutions Here we go… Every January, we’re invited (often pressured) to become a better version of ourselves overnight. New habits. New body. New productivity. New spiritual disciplines. All starting January 1. The amount of ads we get served on every platform is mind numbing. For many people, especially those who’ve experienced trauma, […]
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