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05/13/2026

Everyone’s focused on appetite when it comes to using a GLP-1. But for a lot of people, that’s not the hardest part!

We work with a lot of clients on GLP-1s, and they can be incredibly helpful. For some people, they create space that didn’t exist before. But here’s the part that doesn’t get talked about enough…

If food has been your go-to way to cope, decompress, or take the edge off… and that suddenly changes, it can feel like everything gets amplified! We have clients report stress lingers instead of settling, they feel more on edge, or weirdly flat and many catch themselves reaching for something else to fill the gap.

When you take a GLP-1, you’re absolutely losing cravings (which can be great) but you may also be losing a coping channel. And if you’re already someone who holds yourself to a high standard, it can quickly turn into something else to track, manage, and “get right.”

That’s usually when people start to feel off… and don’t always connect it back. Because if food was doing more for you than just feeding you, removing it without replacing it can feel destabilizing.

That’s where the deeper work comes in. If this is your experience, don’t just push through it. Talk to your doctor, and consider working with a therapist who understands both the mental and behavioural side of this. You don’t have to figure that part out on your own!

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05/10/2026

Mother’s Day has a way of making you stop and reflect… and this year, I’ve been thinking about how much becoming a mom has changed me in ways I wasn’t prepared for.

It felt like my heart was suddenly living outside my body. And with that came a level of anxiety I had never experienced before. Not the kind you can logically talk yourself through… the kind that doesn’t make sense, but still feels completely real.

I remember thinking… what if my sweet, geriatric pug somehow hurt the baby? Logically, it made no sense. But in the moment, it felt like something I needed to watch, manage, stay on top of.

And that was a shift for me. I’ve always been someone who could think my way through things, stay organized, stay in control.

Motherhood forced me to slow down in ways I wouldn’t have chosen. To sit more. Notice more. Let things be messier than I was comfortable with.

Walking at the speed of a toddler instead of chasing 10,000 steps. Sitting on the floor playing play dough instead of answering emails. Letting the plan go because the moment mattered more.

And at the same time, I was learning something else.

Losing my mother-in-law last year (who I loved like my own mom) shifted everything. She showed up. She checked in. She made people feel like the most important person in the room.

And losing her made it very clear how much that matters.

Not how much you get done in a day… but how you show up.

Now, with two girls of my own, that’s what I think about. Being present. Paying attention. Letting them know I’m here, not just physically, but mentally too.

And if I’m honest, that’s required me to let go of parts of my Type A personality. Not because they were bad, but because they weren’t serving me in this season.

I see this with so many women I work with too. The moment when what used to work… doesn’t anymore. When control stops feeling helpful and starts feeling exhausting.

A softer, slower, more present version of you might feel unfamiliar… but it’s often exactly what this season is asking for.

Happy Mother’s Day 🤍

05/08/2026

One pattern that comes up a lot when we talk about food is this:

It’s not actually about what’s on your plate. It’s about how much space it’s taking up in your head.

From the outside, it can look like someone who just has a “really healthy” or structured approach. They plan their meals, they know what’s in their food, they try to stay consistent.

But the difference between dieting and disordered eating shows up in the mental load.
How much of your day is spent thinking about food, planning around it, or replaying what you already ate. How quickly food decisions turn into judgment instead of just… eating. How relieving it feels to be “on track,” and how fast guilt shows up when you’re not.
That’s usually the shift.

Because at that point, it’s not really about the food anymore. It’s about what food has come to represent, and how much mental bandwidth it’s quietly taking up.

We wrote a new blog this week breaking down the difference between dieting and disordered eating, and the patterns people often miss when they’re trying to make sense of their relationship with food.

It’s linked in our bio.

05/07/2026

You’re not anxious because of what you ate. You’re anxious because your brain thinks you broke a rule.

Those rules are usually quiet but powerful. “I shouldn’t eat after this.” “I need to earn this.” “That was too much.”

So the second you eat, your brain runs a check. Did I do it right? Do I need to fix this? What does this say about me?

What you call anxiety is often just a judgment loop running in the background. Most people try to calm it down, but if the rule stays, the anxiety comes right back.

The shift I want you to make is by asking yourself “what rule is my brain trying to enforce right now?” That’s where the real work is!

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05/06/2026

What does it feel like to be a therapist who works in maternal mental health…
6 weeks postpartum… in the middle of it?

Honestly? Humbling. Knowing “what to do” doesn’t make you immune to the experience. Loving your baby doesn’t make it easy. And being “good at coping” doesn’t cancel out the mental load.

You can feel grateful, exhausted, overwhelmed, and completely in love… all in the same hour.

That’s not a problem.
That’s postpartum.

05/03/2026

One of the things that surprises people in therapy is this: the constant thinking about food is almost never where the story actually starts.

By the time food is taking up a noticeable amount of space in your head, there’s usually a buildup of things that haven’t been fully dealt with. Ongoing work decisions, relationship tension, pressure to perform, and the mental load of trying to stay on top of everything all at once.

When your brain is juggling that many unresolved pieces, it looks for something more concrete to focus on.

Food works well for that. It has structure, rules, timing, and clear decisions. It’s measurable in a way most of your life isn’t, so your brain starts tracking it, planning it, evaluating it. And in a strange way, that can feel stabilizing when everything else feels less clear.

What most people try to do is shut the food thoughts down. They argue with them or try to replace them, but that usually doesn’t get very far.

Because the thoughts about food aren’t the core issue. They’re a byproduct of everything else that hasn’t been processed or resolved.
So the more useful question isn’t “how do I stop thinking about food?” It’s “what’s been sitting in the background lately that I haven’t actually addressed?”

If food is taking up more space than you want it to, that’s worth paying attention to. Not because food is the problem, but because something underneath it likely needs your attention.

We also created a free Self Growth Guide if you want a starting point to better understand these patterns. It’s linked in our bio.

05/01/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which means you’ll probably see the topic come up a lot more over the next few weeks.

One thing that becomes clear pretty quickly when you work in this field is that most people are already aware that mental health matters. Awareness itself usually isn’t the issue.

What people often struggle with is understanding what is actually happening when their mind begins to feel overwhelmed, mentally tired, or stuck in patterns they can’t quite explain. They assume something must be wrong with them, or that they should simply be able to push through it.

More often the explanation is that the brain has been carrying pressure, responsibility, uncertainty, or decision making for a long period of time, and eventually the system starts responding to that load.

When people begin to understand the patterns underneath what they’re experiencing, things often start to make a lot more sense.

Awareness can start the conversation.
Understanding is usually what helps people move forward.

If you’re someone who’s been trying to understand your own patterns more clearly, the Self-Growth Guide we created at Modern Psych is a good place to start. It’s free and you can download it through the link in bio.

04/30/2026

Most people who say they “hate their body”, just actually want to stop THINKING about their body all day! 🤷‍♀️

I want to ask you something. When you imagine having a better relationship with food, what does that actually look like in your day?

For most people, it is not some big pivotal moment. It is just eating lunch and not thinking about it again. Going to a dinner and being present for the conversation instead of quietly calculating calories from the menu in your head. Or maybe it’s even getting to the end of the day without running a recap of everything you ate.

And here is what I find genuinely interesting about this work: when people understand what the food noise has been doing for them (and they usually do once they actually look at it) the noise starts to lose its grip on its own. Not because we fight through it, but because it stopped being necessary! The brain found a better answer to the original question.

What would you do with that mental space if you got it back?

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04/28/2026

If your stress had a loading screen, it would just be buffering… no progress bar, no completion, just that little spinning icon while everything else starts slowing down around it.

That’s actually a pretty accurate description of what burnout is doing in your body. Your stress response activates when something feels like a threat, and it’s supposed to shut off once that threat has passed, but modern life doesn’t really give it a clear ending point. The meeting ends and the pressure doesn’t, so the cycle stays open and your system keeps running in the background long after you’ve closed your laptop and technically called it a day.

The guide we made gets into all of this, including why rest alone doesn’t reach it, what your body actually needs to complete the cycle, eight ways to help it get there, and a burnout check-in so you can see where you’re actually sitting right now.

It’s free and the link is in our bio.

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04/26/2026

A sentence I hear fairly often in sessions is some version of this: I don’t want to diet again. I just want to stop thinking about my body all day.

When people say that, they’re usually describing how much attention their body has started taking up in their life. For example, the body checking in the mirror, or the running commentary about how something fits. For a lot of people, dieting was originally an attempt to solve that. The hope was that if the body changed enough, the thinking about it would finally settle.

What people often discover is that the thinking doesn’t disappear just because more rules get added. In many cases it actually increases the amount of monitoring happening.

So the work tends to start in a different place. Not with trying to perfect the body, but with understanding why the mind keeps returning to it so often.

Over time the goal becomes simpler than people expect: less of the day being organized around thoughts about your body.

This is exactly the kind of work we do at Modern Psych.

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04/23/2026

One thing that often comes up before someone reaches out for support is the question of whether what they’re dealing with is actually serious enough.

A lot of people find themselves trying to answer that question privately for a long time. They compare their situation to what they imagine would “count,” assume they should be able to sort it out on their own, or wait for a clearer reason that would make asking for help feel justified.

During that time the pattern itself usually just continues in the background.

What people often describe when they finally talk about it is not necessarily a single moment where things became worse, but the amount of mental space the situation has started to take up. Food is on their mind more than they would like, decisions around eating require constant adjustment, and the whole thing quietly organizes parts of the day.

For many people the turning point is simply noticing how much room it has been taking up for a while.

That recognition is often where the conversation begins.

What would change if this stopped taking up so much space? Free consultation at Modern Psych to talk about how we can help.

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