What Body Image and Social Media Are Actually Doing to Your Nervous System
You open Instagram for two minutes. Maybe you were just checking the weather or looking for a recipe.
And then somehow, ten minutes later, you're deep in someone's "what I eat in a day" content and you feel like garbage about yourself. Not a little bad. Like, legit worse than you did before you picked up your phone.
Why Can't I Trust Myself? Complex Trauma and Chronic Self-Doubt
You ask five people what they think before making a decision.
You rewrite the text message three times. Then delete it. Then rewrite it again.
You Google something you already know, just to make sure.
GLP-1 Medications, Trauma, and Eating Disorders: Why Weight Loss Is Not Emotionally Neutral
The conversation around GLP-1 medications has become unsurprisingly quite black and white.
Depending on who you ask, these medications are either life-changing or dangerous. Revolutionary or irresponsible. The answer to everything or the beginning (or continuation) of a much larger problem.
What ARFID Looks Like in Adults (And Why It Often Gets Missed)
You avoid work lunches because you're never sure there'll be anything you can eat. You've memorized restaurant menus before agreeing to plans with friends. Traveling feels like a logistical nightmare because food is unpredictable. You've spent years brushing it off, calling yourself picky, laughing it off before someone else does.
Why Do I Feel Like Everyone Is Mad At Me? A Trauma Therapist Explains
You know that feeling when someone texts back "ok" and your entire body responds before your brain has a chance to catch up?
Your stomach drops.
You reread the message.
Then you reread the whole conversation.
Why Growing Up Unseen Can Leave You Feeling Emotionally Lonely
Childhood emotional neglect is often less about what happened to you and more about what did not happen. The comfort that never came. The curiosity about your inner world that was missing. The emotional attunement your developing nervous system needed and simply did not receive.
When You Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Birth Experience
If you can't stop replaying your birth, even though everything is "technically fine," you might be experiencing unresolved birth trauma.
Why Dissociation Happens in CPTSD and How EMDR Helps
If you've ever zoned out in the middle of a conversation, forgotten what you were saying mid-sentence, or felt like you're watching your life instead of living it, that's dissociation.
And if you've ever judged yourself for it, like what is wrong with me or why can't I just stay present, this is for you.
What Is the Fawn Response? A Trauma Therapist Explains
The fawn response is one of the four trauma responses, and honestly, one of the hardest ones to recognize. Because unlike fight or flight, fawning doesn't look like a trauma response from the outside. It looks like being nice. Being helpful. Being easy to be around.
Can EMDR Help With Anxiety? What Most People Don't Know About How It Works
If you've been managing anxiety for a while, you've probably tried a few things.
Therapy. Medication. Breathing exercises. Maybe a meditation app you opened twice and then abandoned somewhere in your phone's graveyard.
How to Silence Your Inner Critic (And Why It's Been Trying to Help You All Along)
You know the voice…
The one that shows up the second you try something new, speak up in a meeting, or just look in the mirror on a not so great day.
You're too much. Not enough. Who in the world do you think you are?
Shame Acronym: A Simple Way to Understand What Shame Really Feels Like
Shame is one of the most painful human experiences, and also one of the most misunderstood. It hides inside perfectionism, people-pleasing, explosive anger, and the relentless inner voice that tells you you're too much or not enough.
Sexual Abuse Signs in Adults: What Survivors of Childhood Abuse Often Carry Into Adulthood
This post covers signs of childhood sexual abuse in adults. It is psychoeducational, not diagnostic. If anything here resonates, please work with a trauma-informed therapist who can help you explore it safely.
Polyvagal Theory Made Simple: What It Is and Why It Matters in Therapy
Polyvagal theory was developed by Dr. Stephen Porges in 1994.
The short version: it's a framework that explains how your autonomic nervous system responds to safety, danger, and threat, and why those responses live in your body, not just your brain.
Emotional Dysregulation in ADHD: What It Looks Like in Adults
Here's what most people don't tell you about ADHD: the attention stuff? That's actually the easier part to explain. It's the emotions, the flooding, the shame spirals, the rejection that hits like a freight train, that tend to take people out. And almost nobody's talking about it.
Why Does EMDR Make You Tired? (And Why It Might Actually Be A Good Sign)
Maybe your therapist brought it up, or you fell down a late-night Google rabbit hole trying to figure out why you can't just move on already.
Do I Have an Eating Disorder? Thoughts from an Eating Disorder Therapist
If you're typing this into Google, you're probably not doing it casually.
Something feels off.
What Is Attachment Trauma? And How Do You Heal From It?
Attachment trauma happens when the people you depended on for safety, comfort, and emotional connection were inconsistent, unavailable, frightening, or emotionally immature.
Reclaim Therapy's Favorite Somatic Healing Tools
Traditional talk therapy has its place, but when you're dealing with trauma, anxiety, or a dysregulated nervous system, talking about it just isn't enough to lead to lasting change. Your body is holding the story, and it needs different tools to heal.
How OCD and Eating Disorders Often Go Hand in Hand
You might notice intrusive thoughts about food that won't quiet down, rituals around eating that feel impossible to break, or a sense that your brain has hijacked both your relationship with food and your peace of mind.