Resilience Nest

Resilience Nest Welcome to Resilience Nest Page, a trauma-informed psychologist dedicated to fostering healing and resilience.

Experience in trauma recovery, I am committed to providing compassionate, evidence-based therapy to help you navigate life's challenges.

A reflection for this season:As we come to the last week of the month of February, let's re-examine how we receive and g...
23/02/2026

A reflection for this season:
As we come to the last week of the month of February, let's re-examine how we receive and give love.
Whose patterns are you carrying?
What version of love are you ready to unlearn—or return to?

Take a deep breath. Your love story is older than you think. And healing it is an act of deep cultural and ancestral restoration.

Read the full reflection: https://resiliencenest.substack.com/p/the-stories-we-inherit-about-love

Your nervous system is not just your own.It carries the imprint of the world that shaped you — and the worlds that shape...
18/02/2026

Your nervous system is not just your own.
It carries the imprint of the world that shaped you — and the worlds that shaped the people who came before you.

We are not just reacting to today. We are often responding to a history we never lived, but deeply remember.

Read the full reflection: https://resiliencenest.substack.com/p/what-is-the-cultural-nervous-system

What path of healing have you chosen?This year....The goal is to reconnect with your nervous system and the layers of me...
11/02/2026

What path of healing have you chosen?
This year....
The goal is to reconnect with your nervous system and the layers of messages generations of ancestors have passed on to you...

Find your path...
Connect to your cultural nervous system...

Heal your own way!

Many of us were raised inside systems—familial, educational, spiritual—that viewed our capacity as a weakness.We learned...
09/02/2026

Many of us were raised inside systems—familial, educational, spiritual—that viewed our capacity as a weakness.

We learned to override our "no." We learned to view exhaustion as a hurdle to jump over, rather than a signal to stop. Unlearning this is the work of a lifetime.

Read the full reflection: https://resiliencenest.substack.com/p/on-slowness-capacity-and-returning

There are ways of being strong that are actually forms of bracing.Ways of being independent that are actually forms of p...
02/02/2026

There are ways of being strong that are actually forms of bracing.
Ways of being independent that are actually forms of protection.
Ways of being “fine” that are simply exhaustion dressed in dignity.

And your body knows the difference.

Read more about co-regulation on our latest blog post.
Link in bio and stories...

For many of us, "high performance" wasn't a career choice. It was a survival strategy.We learned early:Be useful. Be imp...
28/01/2026

For many of us, "high performance" wasn't a career choice. It was a survival strategy.

We learned early:
Be useful. Be impressive. Be unshakeable.
If you are excellent, they can't ignore you. If you are excellent, you belong.

But performing for safety is exhausting.

This year at Resilience Nest, we are untangling the difference between your Ambition and your Anxiety.

You are allowed to be average today. The sky will not fall. 🤎

26/01/2026

Western psychology often calls it "high-functioning anxiety."
We call it The Guilt of Stillness.

It isn't just about being busy. It is the deep, physical discomfort that rises the moment you stop moving.

It looks like:

● Checking your email while watching a movie because "just watching" feels lazy.

● The panic when someone asks "What did you do today?" and you have to answer "Nothing."

● Cleaning the house before you allow yourself to read a book (earning your rest).

● Creating a mental to-do list while you are trying to fall asleep.

● Feeling like your worth expires the moment you aren't being "useful."

These aren't just bad habits. These are the echoes of a Cultural Nervous System that learned that stillness was dangerous and productivity was protection.

But you are safe now.
You do not have to earn the right to breathe.

In many Western assessments, clinicians expect to see: • hyperarousal • avoidance • intrusive memories • withdrawal.But ...
23/01/2026

In many Western assessments, clinicians expect to see:
• hyperarousal • avoidance • intrusive memories • withdrawal.

But across cultures, trauma may appear as:
• somatic symptoms
• spiritual disruption
• relational imbalance
• silence and obedience
• physical illnesses without medical explanation

When the cultural context is missing, the diagnosis becomes incomplete.

At Resilience Nest, our approach integrates:
🧠 clinical psychology
🌍 cultural psychology
🕯️ ancestral frameworks
✨ embodied spirituality
Healing must make room for all of who we are.

Introducing the Cultural Nervous System.For many people of culture, trauma is not only psychological — it’s cultural, an...
20/01/2026

Introducing the Cultural Nervous System.
For many people of culture, trauma is not only psychological — it’s cultural, ancestral, communal, and embodied.

This concept helps us:
✔️ contextualize trauma without pathologizing
✔️ understand inherited patterns
✔️ make space for identity in healing
✔️ reconnect to cultural wisdom
✔️ rebuild grounding through lineage


This year, we turn our focus to reconnecting with our cultural nervous system, and reclaiming the tools of those that ha...
15/01/2026

This year, we turn our focus to reconnecting with our cultural nervous system, and reclaiming the tools of those that have come before us, to navigate the world and build resilience.

If you feel unsure as you step into 2026, remember this: Uncertainty is not an incapacity.

Your ancestors navigated worlds without maps. That resilience is stored in your body. You do not need to see the whole path to take the next breath.

Trust your arrival. 🤎

Adres

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