Modern Mindwork

12/22/2025

Embracing Neurodiversity in Mental Health Practice

11/22/2025

11/08/2025

You can be loved, partnered, even adored—and still feel profoundly alone.

Loneliness inside love isn’t failure—it’s fear.
Two nervous systems protecting themselves instead of each other.

This week’s essay: *When Love Becomes Loneliness*
About the quiet ache of disconnection, the biology of distance,
and the courage to open the door again.

Full piece on Modern Mindwork Substack → link in bio.

10/24/2025

No one prepares men for the possible trauma of childbirth.

For the moment they come face to face with their own impotence in the machinery of medicine that women have been navigating their whole lives.

The quiet coercion. The emotional gaslighting. The medicalized theatre of choice, where consent is often a performance and information is rationed like contraband.

Please join us on Substack

07/22/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/modernmindwork/p/when-self-hatred-feels-like-the-truth?r=5cbzn1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/18/2025

Contempt for idleness is a learned experience.
Mine was a gift, given by a mother who required that I earn my worth, and her love, through usefulness. Through motion. Through obedience dressed up as virtue. This lesson was reinforced by teachers ...

05/17/2025

Modern Mindwork is a trauma-informed publication exploring burnout, moral injury, addiction, and complex PTSD within the professional realm of frontline and integrative practitioners. Designed for clinicians, first responders, and others in the vicarious trauma trades, it bridges neuroscience, psychedelic medicine, research, and lived experience to support nervous system regulation, behavioral healing, and the cultivation of compassionate internal scaffolding in emotionally complex professions. https://modernmindwork.substack.com/p/presence-is-not-neutral?r=5cbzn1

05/16/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/modernmindwork/p/the-first-time-you-stay?r=5cbzn1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

05/08/2025

Perfectionism is not ambition—it’s protection.

When mistakes felt unsafe, perfection became the shield. It helped you avoid criticism, rejection, chaos.

Perfectionism is a lonely prison with gold-plated bars. Real safety doesn’t come from control—it comes from self-trust. You are allowed to be messy and magnificent at the same time.

05/06/2025

Joanna Starratt MSN CRNA PMHNP substack.com/

A new path forward for folks that struggle with the human side of life. One messy moment at a time.

https://modernmindwork.substack.com/p/what-if-you-stopped-fixing?utm_source=substack&utm_content=feed%3Arecommended%3Acopy_link

Presence is harder than progress. And more powerful.

05/03/2025

The judgement of post joy emotional drop.