15 Ways to Feel Better Right Now
If you attend to just a few areas, you can feel better quite quickly. It’s why EMDR therapy can feel like magic, even though it’s not.
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Self-Help
It’s Time for Your Mental “Tax Season” to Be Over.
Black women have always known that work is a high-stakes environment for us, even when it is not an openly hostile place.
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Why You Keep Trading Your Peace to Please Others (and How to Stop!)
When you keep using that emergency-focused approach long after the fire is out, it stops looking like ‘resilience’ and starts becoming a liability to your own health and happiness.
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TikTok said you’re “triggered” and it’s a “trauma response.” Now what?
Over the past 10 years, I’ve noticed a major change with new clients. More clients already have some official, professional terms to describe their symptoms. They use the *fancy* words. They want to know: “Do I have ADHD?” “Am I on the spectrum?” “Is this a trauma response?” Now, this is expected when many of
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The Hidden Friction of Trauma is Slowing Down Your Brain.
Once you no longer need to ask yourself questions like:
-Why can’t I follow through on my plans?
-Why do I feel so exhausted all the time?
-Why can’t I focus on work?
-How can I stop second-guessing myself?
…life gets a lot smoother.
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AI Therapy: What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health
Have you been a little AI-curious lately? Me too. The companies that develop generative (conversational) AI are making some very big promises, especially about AI and mental health. They have created everything from simple meditation apps and mood trackers to chatbots that pretend to be therapists. Some of those chatbots will even lie to you
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2 Questions You’d Never Think to Ask Your Therapist, but Should!
In the first therapy session, your therapist give you lots of practical information and will ask a lot of questions about you. It’s normal to feel a little nervous about this process if you’ve never done it before. This isn’t how regular conversations go. Conversations in normal life usually include a little more back and
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3 Ways to Manage Complex PTSD Symptoms at Work
In my office, I treat different trauma-related conditions. One is a type of PTSD called complex PTSD aka cPTSD. In short, it’s a cluster of symptoms that develop after lots of repeated awful experiences. OR it’s the kind of PTSD that is worsened by additional family or social hurts. Symptoms of cPTSD can include the
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Tired of Being Your Own Worst Critic? 3 Therapist-Approved Books You’ll Love.
As a trauma therapist, one of the main battles I help clients fight is the battle with their own mind. Trauma can trick you into thinking that you’re not good enough, not doing enough, not worthy of good things. It will try to make you remember bad things and make you forget everything that’s great
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Understanding Mental Illness: Definitions and 3 Resources to Explain Neurodiversity
Let’s define some terms, okay? Someone who experiences some extra sensitivity, or utter bafflement toward others, (because humans are regularly confusing af), might be showing neurodivergence. Neurodivergence is the word used to categorize the sensory, behavioral, and emotional expression of people with developmental differences, autism, or ADHD. But neurodivergence is only one type of neurodiversity. There are
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