Galia Collaborative

02/25/2026

This one is for those navigating the special hell that is infertility.

One more note: if you find yourself asking your partner to get support together and they decline, please go ahead and do it on your own. That dynamic will be something to work through and definitely requires another layer of support.

02/24/2026

Grounding practices may not eliminate stress, anxiety, or difficult emotions. But they can help you return to yourself—even briefly. Sometimes that's long enough to see things more clearly or make better decisions.

Galia therapist, Georgina Chávez, shares five practical tools for helping us ground in times of uncertainty and overwhelm.

Practical grounding exercises to regulate your nervous system, reduce anxiety, and manage overwhelm throughout your day.

02/23/2026

If furniture rearranging was an Olympic sport ⛷️

02/22/2026

We’re hard to satisfy for very long, even in our own self-development. But that’s okay, because being done isn’t really the point. Our work is to keep expanding our capacity to meet the moments where we find ourselves.

02/20/2026

Is your family growing? Having another child can bring about a host of different emotions - from excitement to anxiety to to grief of losing of losing connection with other children.

Galia therapist, Michelle Piven, shares a letter that highlights the experience of this uniquely meaningful transition.

Worried you’ve lost connection with your firstborn after baby #2? A therapist-mom shares insight on attachment, guilt, and reconnection.

02/19/2026

High-bandwidth ADHDers can take on more than they can manage out of adrenaline and high-potential. They can over-estimate time and capacity. They can struggle to quiet their minds. They can not recognize the need for support.

Here's what happens: Woman who is over-functioning in all aspects of her life is told to slow down, take it easy, decrease stress. That sounds great, but without understanding why the over-functioning started or why it feels impossible to halt, she'll feel completely incapable of getting out of the cycle.

Women with ADHD need actual, targeted strategies for reducing not just the stress itself, but the inclination toward stress in their lives. They need resources that are relevant to their ADHD-specific experiences of things like difficulty with future visualization, over-commitment, hyper-connectivity, and more.

If “stress” is the reason given for symptoms, we need to go a layer deeper to understand why the stress is happening, especially when chronic.

02/11/2026

When someone has been impacted by trauma – whether that’s a single incident or major ongoing relational or societal stressors – it can start to become hard to conceive of a long-term or ongoing existence.

This doesn’t mean not wanting to live; it’s more of an inability to really imagine what living into the future might look or feel like.

It’s one of the many ways that human brains start to adapt to circumstances that have felt intolerable.

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A foreshortened future is a change in the sense of how our personal narratives are written — what feels possible in how time and our experience will unfold.

We can find ourselves asking, “What’s the point?” We can feel frozen.

It’s hard to orient toward action when we can’t sense anything beyond the past or a painful now.

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Understanding this phenomenon – rather than blindly operating from it – can help us ground into what’s happening.

We may need to take action even while our minds are telling us that none of it matters.

None of us know what the future holds or what it has in store for us individually or collectively. But we can operate from openness to the possibility of a future we can’t yet see. That feels especially important right now.

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For what we can do when it feels like nothing we do matters, check out the essay in the comments.

02/10/2026

Here’s what’s happening ✨

We have several opportunities for restoration, grounding, and discovery coming your way. 💫

Grab the details and let us know you’re joining us at the link in bio. 🖇️

02/09/2026

Considering just transitioning to a and fan account for the foreseeable future.

02/08/2026

It's possible that this one might sting a little bit 🫣

But confronting our maladaptive beliefs can offer us a path to the relief we've been waiting for, and let us finally heal the parts of us who learned to only trust ourselves.

02/06/2026

This isn't a post about individuals. This is a post about a cultural phenomenon.

What can we do? We can zoom out instead of turning on ourselves. We can name that this cultural season of bodily “shrinking” isn’t just about health or trends—it’s about power, control, and fear of nonconformity.

We can resist the quiet slide toward surveillance—of our bodies and each other’s. We can question whose comfort is being prioritized, whose bodies are framed as “too much,” and who benefits when women feel compelled to take up less space.

And maybe most radically, we can practice staying unconstrained. In our bodies, our appetites, our expressions, our refusal to be smaller than we are.

That, too, is a form of resistance.

02/05/2026

“Wintering brings about some of the most profound and insightful moments of our human experience, and wisdom resides in those who have wintered.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

We got to spend this past Sunday in deep connection with a wonderful group of women as we explored practices for wintering.

We sipped, snacked, reflected, created, and more, and it was such a sweet and profound experience.

Thank you to the lovely folks who joined the Warmth Within, and to the awesome Galia providers who created this experience. 💫

📆 To stay connected on all of our upcoming gatherings, check out the Events page in comments.