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18/12/2025

A depressive episode can feel like something that just happens to you — like a weather pattern you have to wait out.

And that feeling makes total sense. When your energy drops, your motivation disappears, and your thoughts turn inward, it’s easy to believe you have no influence over any of it.

But here’s the part most people never learn:

Your brain isn’t a passive observer.

It’s constantly rewiring in response to your thoughts, expectations, behaviors, and the way you engage with the world.

That’s neuroplasticity.

And it’s the reason you’re not powerless, even when you feel immobilized.

Your expectations shift your brain chemistry.

Your thoughts shape the circuits that get activated.

Your behaviors send signals about what your brain should prioritize — movement, connection, pleasure, safety, or shutdown.

It doesn’t mean you can snap out of depression.

It does mean there are tiny, doable actions that begin nudging your brain out of shutdown and back toward aliveness. ❤️‍🩹

12/12/2025

OCD can look “irrational” from the outside, but the experience is actually painfully human.

Think of the last time you had a worry you couldn’t shake — a thought that felt a little too sticky, a little too loud.

Now imagine that feeling… turned up to full volume.

And happening dozens of times a day.

❤️‍🔥A thought that feels urgent even when you know it makes no logical sense.

❤️‍🔥Feeling responsible for preventing something bad — even when it’s not your job.

❤️‍🔥Replaying conversations because you’re scared you hurt someone.

❤️‍🔥Not trusting your own memory.

❤️‍🔥Trying to get certainty about something that can never be 100% certain.

❤️‍🔥Doing little behaviors (checking, rereading, apologizing, googling, replaying, avoiding) just to get temporary relief.

People with OCD aren’t “quirky,” “overthinkers,” or “dramatic.”

They’re living with a brain that sends out alarms that feel real, consequential, and impossible to ignore — even when they know the alarm is false.

If you don’t have OCD, you don’t need to fully understand it to be supportive.

Just remember:
It’s not about the content of the fear.

It’s about the feeling—the urgency, the doubt, the mental noise they didn’t ask for.

05/12/2025

Dating feels so different when your body is part of the conversation. 🌿

When the stakes feel high, we tend to leave ourselves—jumping into fantasy, fear, overthinking, or old patterns. But your body is always giving you real-time information about safety, alignment, interest, and capacity.

This post is a reminder to come back into *you* while dating.

To feel instead of perform.

To observe instead of react.

To stay connected instead of abandoning yourself.

Your nervous system doesn’t need pressure or urgency—it needs presence.

Save this if you’re re-entering the dating world, and share it with a friend who needs a little grounding right now. 🤍

03/12/2025

Couples therapy- Mr. and Mrs. Claus edition 🎄🤶 🎅

23/10/2025

When the roles you once occupied fall away—or never came—it can feel like no one sees you. The world grows quiet. There are no applause lines for becoming your own anchor. But that doesn’t mean the work isn’t valuable.

In fact, this is some of the most courageous work you’ll ever do:

🌱 Learning to love yourself outside of performance.

🌱 Creating rituals that remind you who you are.

🌱 Reclaiming beauty and meaning on *your* terms.

This is how we build a new foundation. One that doesn’t crumble when society forgets to clap. One that lasts.

05/09/2025

Take a moment and ask yourself—what are you expecting of yourself right now?

Write it all down. 📝

✨ A mom who makes homemade meals every night.

✨ Someone emotionally present with her partner.

✨ Hitting the gym 5x a week.

✨ Crushing it at work.

✨ Keeping up with friends, laundry, emails…

Now look at that list and really let this truth sink in:

You were never meant to be all of these things at once.

Let’s normalize this: you only have so much bandwidth and so many hours in a day. What if you chose *one* thing to focus on today and let yourself do it with as much care as you can?

And if even the bare minimum feels hard—like showering, answering a text, or folding laundry—pause and notice this:

It’s not because you’re failing.

It’s because you’re carrying an invisible emotional load that’s taking up so much of your energy. That’s your cue—not for shame, but for care. Something inside you is asking for your attention. 🧘🏽‍♀️

08/08/2025

There are moments in a woman’s life that defy easy labels. You’re no longer the maiden, not yet the mother, and far from the crone. This middle space can feel lonely, undefined, uncelebrated.

But here’s the truth: this liminal space is its own sacred chapter. ✨

You don’t need a child, a ring, or a title to be worthy of celebration.

You are a full human being, right here, right now. 🤍

And you deserve to be seen.

Let’s create a community that honors this in-between. That says:

You are not waiting.

You are *living*.

And that’s more than enough.

🫶🏽

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