Postpartum Anxiety: When You Can't Stop Worrying
You thought you’d be tired, yes, but also happy. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own life, or maybe you feel nothing at all, and that absence frightens you more than sadness would. Postpartum depression affects up to 1 in 5 women, and that number is likely higher because so many cases go unreported. It responds to treatment, and you don’t have to wait it out.
Chronic Stress and Your Body: What's Actually Happening
Chronic stress is a physiological state that affects your hormones, digestion, immune function, sleep, and fertility. Here's what's actually happening in your body.
The Vagus Nerve: Why It Matters for Your Health
The vagus nerve is the main communication line between your brain and your body. When it functions well, you can digest, rest, and recover. When it doesn't, everything suffers.
Somatic Healing: What It Is and How It Works
Somatic healing works with the body directly, helping resolve patterns that talk therapy and thinking alone can't shift. Here's what it is and how it actually works.
Trauma and the Body: How Unresolved Stress Affects Your Health
Many people carry unresolved stress in their bodies without realizing it. They come to us with physical symptoms that don’t have clear medical explanations: chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, difficulty conceiving. They’ve had tests, everything comes back normal, but they don’t feel normal. Often, the missing piece is the nervous system, and often, the nervous system is holding something it hasn’t been able to let go of.
Co-Regulation: Why We Heal in Connection
Co-regulation is the process of one nervous system helping another find calm. It explains why isolation makes stress worse and why healing often happens in relationships.
Reproductive Trauma: What It Is and How It Affects Your Body
When reproductive experiences are painful, frightening, or marked by loss, it can be hard to name what you’re carrying. You might not think of it as trauma, might think you should be over it by now. But your body knows, and your body is keeping score. What makes something traumatic isn’t the event itself, but how your nervous system responded and whether it was able to recover.
Fight, Flight, Freeze: What's Happening in Your Body
Fight, flight, and freeze are your body's survival responses. Learning to recognize what each feels like in your body is the first step toward regulating your nervous system.