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Driven by Wellness Therapy Studio, LLC

Anxiety & Trauma Therapist
EMDR + Talk ⁣Therapy + Mind|Body
In office & virtual in Florida

08/14/2025

We’ve all heard the “rules.”

Wait 3 hours to reply.
Don’t be too available.
Make them work for it.

But what if your nervous system isn’t built for games? What if you’ve spent years overthinking, people-pleasing, or keeping the peace at the cost of your own needs?

It’s not just dating, these “rules” show up everywhere. At work. With friends. Even in family dynamics. And when you’ve learned that love or belonging has to be earned, it’s easy to think you have to tone yourself down to be accepted.

The bravest thing you can do might not be playing it cool, it might be showing up as yourself.

It’s possible to unlearn the old rules that kept you overthinking. A good starting point? Notice when you’re about to follow one of those rules, like holding back a reply or pretending you’re less interested and ask yourself, “What would I do if I trusted that being myself was enough?” Even small shifts like that can start to rewire how you show up.

08/07/2025

Most of us have tried to think our way out of feeling stuck. But when your nervous system shifts into survival mode, like freeze or shutdown thinking harder doesn’t actually help. This isn’t about a lack of effort or mindset.

When your system gets overloaded, your mind and body disconnect. You might notice feeling numb, checked out, or like you’re just going through the motions. Not because you’re unmotivated, but because your body is prioritizing safety over movement.

Trying to push or pressure yourself in these moments usually makes it worse. You can’t force a nervous system to feel safe with willpower alone. Safety isn’t just a feeling it’s a physiological state, and change happens when your body starts to sense safety, not when you shame yourself for being stuck.

If you’re in that place now, you don’t need a pep talk or another productivity hack. What usually helps is starting small, maybe softening your expectations, moving your body in gentle ways, or just noticing what feels safe enough to try. That’s where things start to shift.

💫If you want some simple, real-life tools for nervous system regulation (especially if you’re tired of being told to just breathe), comment REGULATE or check the link in my bio for a free guide.

08/06/2025

Secure attachment isn’t about being unbothered or having no needs. It’s about staying connected to yourself and others, even when things get messy. Activation still happens, fear still shows up, but healing means you start meeting those moments with presence instead of panic, and curiosity instead of self-blame.

You don’t have to be perfect to be secure, security is built in repair, not in the absence of conflict. It’s knowing you can find your way back to connection, even after things go sideways.

Secure attachment means trusting you can have needs, make mistakes, and move through conflict without losing yourself or the relationship.

08/04/2025

Self-trust isn’t about always knowing what to do, it’s about staying connected to yourself, even when things feel uncertain. Most acts of self-trust aren’t groundbreaking; sometimes it’s just eating before you crash, letting yourself say “I don’t know yet” instead of forcing an answer, or choosing not to abandon yourself when anxiety shows up.

Self-trust can look like listening to your body, honoring your needs, and giving yourself permission to pause or change your mind.

What does self-trust look like for you?

Follow for more on building self-trust, breaking people-pleasing cycles, and finding balance that actually feels good.

08/01/2025

If you’ve ever found yourself doing most of the work in a relationship remembering every detail, fixing every issue, trying to keep the peace, it’s easy to confuse that with love or even strength. But sometimes what looks like being “the reliable one” is actually your nervous system working overtime to keep connection from slipping away.

Overfunctioning can feel responsible even loving. But often it’s just your body’s way of managing anxiety or uncertainty trying to earn closeness by doing more.

You were never meant to do the work of two people. You don’t have to keep proving you’re enough, and love doesn’t require you to carry it all alone.

07/29/2025

People-pleasing isn’t who you are, it’s something you learned to do to stay safe.

Maybe you were the “easy one,” the quiet kid, the helper who never made waves. If you learned early on that being easy, quiet, or helpful got you approval (or just kept things calm), of course it makes sense that now, saying “no” feels risky, or asking for what you need brings up guilt or shame.

You didn’t wake up one day and decide to put yourself last. It was a survival skill. And honestly, you did what you needed to do to get by.

What I really want you to know is that your needs aren’t too much. They’re just finally asking for a little room.

➡️ Swipe to see how childhood roles can shape adult people-pleasing, and what healing can actually look like.

Comment “GUIDE” and I’ll DM you my free Quiet Boundary Practice Workbook, a gentle tool to help you reconnect with your voice, not just the version of you that keeps everyone else comfortable.

07/25/2025

If you’re not being yourself, they’re not falling for you.
They’re falling for the version you curated to feel safe.

But love that lasts can’t be built on performance.
Eventually, the mask slips and so does the connection.

💭 Real intimacy starts where pretending ends!

👉 Follow for more content on breaking old patterns, finding safety in connection, and working with yourself not against yourself.

07/22/2025

Healing anxious attachment doesn’t mean you never feel anxious again. It means learning how to respond to the fear without abandoning yourself without going quiet, overexplaining, or chasing for closeness.

In the early stages of a relationship, what helps isn’t perfection; it’s someone who shows up consistently, whose words align with their actions, and who stays emotionally present when things feel uncertain.

It’s not about avoiding activation altogether, but about learning that your fear doesn’t make you too much and that it’s possible to be honest about what you’re feeling and still be met with care instead of distance.

07/16/2025

It’s not low-maintenance if it means abandoning yourself.

If you’ve been praised for being easygoing in relationships, but deep down you feel anxious, resentful, or like your needs don’t matter, this is for you.

Sometimes the traits we think make us good partners like being agreeable, not asking for much, or always going with the flow may actually be protective habits. They might’ve helped you avoid conflict, rejection, or being seen as too much.

But over time, they can make it harder to stay connected to what you want, what you feel, and what’s actually true for you.

You’re allowed to exist fully in your relationships, even if it means being more honest or visible than you’ve been in the past.

🧠 Follow for more content on anxious attachment, finding safety in your relationships, and working with yourself instead of against yourself.

07/11/2025

You don’t need someone to text you 24/7.
You need someone whose actions match their words.

When you’re anxiously attached, it’s easy to feel like you’re too much for wanting closeness. But it’s not constant reassurance you’re craving, it’s consistency.

•Behavior that backs up intention.

•Someone who’s shown you you don’t have to keep guessing where you stand.

•Moments that feel real not just words that sound nice.

You don’t need someone who never activates your anxiety. You need someone who doesn’t shut down or pull away when it does.
Someone who stays consistent, who listens, shows up, and says, “We’ll work through this,” and actually means it.

Because what heals anxious attachment isn’t more proof, it’s reliable presence, clear signals, and a relationship that doesn’t disappear when you stop editing yourself to keep the connection.

👉 Follow for more content on anxious attachment, finding safety in your relationships, and working with yourself instead of against yourself.

07/08/2025

If a delayed text sends you into overthinking mode,
you start replaying what you said, second-guessing how it came across, wondering if you were too much or said the wrong thing.

It may not always be about the text itself,
it can be about all the uncertainty it brings up, especially if you’ve learned that silence usually means something’s wrong.

Swipe for a few ways to pause, reconnect, and ride out the spiral without turning against yourself.

Follow for more content on attachment, people-pleasing, and anxiety.

07/04/2025

Not all friendship red flags are obvious.
Sometimes it’s the subtle things that leave you feeling drained, anxious, or unsure what you did wrong.

If you’ve ever left a hangout second-guessing yourself, feeling like you had to perform, or wondering if you were too much—your nervous system noticed something, even if you couldn’t name it.

Friendship should feel like a place where your body can relax.
Not a place where you have to over-explain, over-give, or stay small to keep the peace.

👉 Follow for more content on breaking patterns, building safer relationships, and learning to stop abandoning yourself.

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Monday	7:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 5pm
Thursday	7:30am - 5pm
Friday	7:30am - 5pm
Saturday	8:30am - 2pm

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