We have been conditioned to view physical symptoms—a tight jaw, a chronic ache in the shoulders, a sudden wave of nausea, an unexplainable fatigue—as inconveniences to be medicated or pushed through. We treat the body like a misbehaving machine that needs to be forced back into compliance. But what if your symptoms aren’t disruptions to …
There is a specific kind of loneliness that belongs to the person who has it all together. The one who organizes the crisis, anticipates the needs of others, and whose competence is so reliable that people stop asking how they are actually doing. In therapy, we often discover that being “the strong one” or the …
When a major life chapter ends—a relationship, a career, a version of ourselves—we are often met with societal pressure to “move on” or “find closure.” We look for a clean break, a sharp line in the sand that separates who we were from who we are becoming. But psyche rarely operates in straight lines. True …
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We often treat anxiety as a failure of thinking—a loop of “what-ifs” that we should be able to logic our way out of. But if you have ever tried to think your way out of a panic attack, you know that the mind is often the last to know what the body has already decided. …
Read more “Why Your Mind Won’t Let You Rest: Understanding the Tired Nervous System”