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Healing Is Messy: 5 Tools That Saved Me (That Aren’t in Therapy Worksheets)
Let’s be honest: healing is not the perfectly lit yoga pose Instagram makes it out to be. Healing is sobbing in your car at the grocery store. It’s snapping at your kid and then crying into a cold cup of coffee because you swore you wouldn’t turn into your mother. It’s realizing your “five-year plan” looks more like a crumpled napkin than a Pinterest board. And yet… here we are. Still showing up. Still choosing to try. Over the years, I’ve learned that while therapy is gold (yes, keep…
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What Is the Window of Tolerance and Why You Keep Freaking Out
Ever feel like you’re totally fine one minute, then sobbing in a Target parking lot over the wrong kind of oat milk the next? Yeah. Same. Welcome to the Window of Tolerance, a term from trauma psychology that sounds like something you’d find in a tech manual but is actually the secret decoder ring to understanding your own mental spirals. If you’ve ever wondered why you “overreact,” shut down, lash out, or melt into a puddle of anxiety at the worst possible times, this is for you. Let’s get…
