After long periods of chaos, conflict, or emotional unpredictability, calm can feel unsettling rather than soothing. Many people mistake this discomfort for boredom when it’s actually the nervous system learning a new baseline. This blog explores why peace can feel dull after survival mode—and how to slowly build safety in stillness.

Hyper-independence often develops as a survival skill, not a personality trait. For many people, especially those who learned early that help wasn’t available or reliable, doing everything alone felt safer than risking disappointment. This blog explores how hyper-independence shows up, why it’s so hard to release, and how healing can begin when support becomes an option rather than a threat.

Retroactive jealousy happens when a partner’s past triggers old fears, insecurities, or unresolved wounds. This blog explores why it happens, especially for clients with trauma, and offers grounded, practical tools for navigating it without shame. Learn how to communicate your feelings, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild emotional safety within yourself.

Losing someone your age shatters the quiet belief that we have more time, leaving you face-to-face with a kind of grief no one prepares you for. It forces you to confront how fragile young adulthood really is while navigating shock, heartbreak, and the sudden awareness of your own mortality. This piece explores the weight of losing a peer, the importance of advocating for your health, and the tender work of healing through a loss that came far too soon.

This blog explores the importance of sitting with your feelings rather than avoiding or fixing them. It offers practical ways to stay present through discomfort, build emotional endurance, and strengthen self-trust. Readers will learn that healing begins not by rushing through emotions but by allowing themselves to feel them fully.

IFS is a therapy approach that helps you understand the “inner family” of parts in your mind. This blog explores how parts work can reveal patterns like the inner critic, self-sabotage, and behaviors shaped by past experiences. Learn how connecting with your inner family can foster self-compassion, emotional balance, and healthier relationships.

Healing is rarely a straight line—it’s a spiral full of setbacks and breakthroughs. Therapy helps you build tools, awareness, and self-compassion to navigate life’s challenges. Recognizing that progress looks different for everyone can reduce frustration and increase resilience.

Being the “strong friend” often means you're the one who holds everyone else together — but who holds you? This blog explores the emotional toll of constantly showing up for others while denying your own needs. You’ll learn how healing starts with giving yourself permission to rest, release, and be held.

This blog explores the emotional experience of growing up with a parent who may have lived with Borderline Personality Disorder or Bipolar Disorder. It breaks down the key differences between the two diagnoses while centering the impact on Black and Brown children who often had to grow up fast in emotionally unstable environments. Readers will learn how these dynamics show up in adulthood and get practical tools to begin healing.

Many Black and Brown millennials and older Gen Z adults are carrying the weight of a childhood they never got to fully experience. This blog explores what it means to grieve not having the parents you needed, being adultified too soon, or growing up in survival mode. It also offers gentle, affirming ways to begin healing and reclaiming the joy you deserved.

A brief guide to confronting anxiety, healing abandonment wounds, and navigating difficult conversations in romantic relationships.

Understand the impact of trauma on the brain over time. Learn about the science of trauma and explore the healing process.