This blog offers practical tools for the stressed-out, over-responsible caretaker ready to move through burnout, guilt, betrayal and anxiety.
You'll find expert, actionable resources using EMDR, Somatics, Brainspotting, and IFS to heal the root of chronic overwhelm and live with more ease and clarity.
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A Silent Grief: When Friendship Ends & No One Mourns
There’s a quiet grief when a vital friendship ends and no one mourns. This unseen loss can register in the body as relational trauma, leaving us with anxiety, exhaustion, and a deep sense of isolation. This post will validate your experience, explain the confusing mind-body disconnect, and introduce gentle, effective tools like titration and pendulation to help you finally find some peace. If you are ready to name your unseen grief and begin healing, click to read more.
Supporting a Loved One Through Pregnancy Loss: A Guide for Friends and Family
Watching someone you care about navigate pregnancy loss is heartbreaking. Words often feel inadequate, and actions clumsy. This guide helps friends and family understand complex grief and trauma, showing you how to truly be present. Because while you can't fix their loss, your support makes a real difference. Read on to learn how to help.
Moving Through Pain: Healing & Support After an Abortion
After an abortion, you might feel a lot. This guide offers a compassionate space to acknowledge the multiple emotions you might experience, from relief to grief - all of which are valid. You'll learn powerful coping strategies to embrace your healing, and different types of therapies that might help along the way. If you’re curious about therapy after an abortion, a pro-choice therapist is critical. Read on to learn more.
Grieving an Abusive Caretaker: Understanding Your Brain & Body's Response
If you're confused because of losing an abusive parent, it's because your brain is grappling with a deep biological conflict, and this creates understandable chaos. Your system is wired to seek safety through attachment to this person, yet they were an are also a source of danger and fear. This conflict leads to complex, intertwined emotions, like grief mixed with anger or relief, which are a core part of grieving someone who held such contradictory roles. Read on to learn about your complex grief and how to move through it with compassion.
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