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Understanding Divorce When You're Neurodivergent: Challenges & Support

Divorce presents challenges for neurodivergent individuals, impacting the different routines, communication styles, and sensory experiences. If you identify as autistic or are otherwise neurodivergent and going through a divorce, this is for you. Understand the specific hurdles you might be facing and find support in this blog post.

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A Therapist's Guide to Grieving Early Menopause

Early menopause isn't just a physical shift — it's an emotional journey that might include grief. You might feel confused, sad, scared, angry, guilty or a whole range of different emotions. Read this post to understand the multifaceted losses, find practical tools, and know you're not alone in navigating this unexpected farewell to a chapter of your life.

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A Little Self EMDR Treat: Quick Read & Exercise

EMDR is a unique therapy that works with your sub lingual and helps you connect with more “true” or “adaptive” material that is already within you. This posts is intended to be used for fun or entertainment rather than for any therapeutic purpose. It is not therapy and it is not medical advice. Read this blog to participate in the exercise.

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The Lingering Shadow: Understanding Complicated Grief & Unmourned Losses

Feeling irritable, distressed, or emotionally distant? It might be the lingering shadow of earlier, unmourned losses contributing to complicated grief. Explore this often-overlooked connection and discover how EMDR, IFS, and Somatic Therapy can offer pathways to healing for your mind, body, and inner world.

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Disenfranchised Grief: What It Is, Why It Happens & How to Heal

The world acknowledges certain heartbreaks, we have offerings of comfort and rituals for mourning. But what about the losses carried in silence or met with judgment, like those from suicide, addiction, or violence? This is disenfranchised grief – the pain that feels unseen and unsupported by society. This post helps you understand and validate this unique grief experience.

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Grieving an Abusive Parent or Caretaker: Why It Feels So Confusing

If you’re feeling confused after losing an abusive parent, it’s a deep internal conflict. Your system is wired to seek safety through attachment, even when that same person was a source of harm. This is a complex, mixed, and valid form of grief, and you’re not wrong for feeling confused or relieved. Read here to learn how to support yourself as you grieve and abusive parent.

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