Why It’s So Hard to Trust Yourself After High-Control Environments
After leaving a high-control religion, family system, cult, or institution, it can be difficult to trust yourself, your body, your choices, or even your sense of reality. This article explores why self-doubt, guilt, grief, confusion, and hypervigilance can linger after leaving controlling environments, and how somatic, trauma-informed therapy can help you rebuild inner authority, meaning, and self-trust.
Why You Feel Burned Out Even When You Love Your Work
You can love your work and still feel exhausted by it. For creative, neurodivergent, highly sensitive, and high-achieving adults, burnout can be especially confusing because work is often tied to identity, purpose, survival, and self-worth. This article explores why burnout is not laziness or failure, how it lives in the nervous system, and how somatic therapy can help you reconnect with your body, boundaries, creativity, and inner authority.
When Your Body Keeps the Score of Doing Too Much: Burnout, the Nervous System, and the Multi-Passionate Life
You know how to hold a lot at once. There's the project you're finishing, the one you're starting, the collaboration you said yes to because it genuinely excites you. You are someone who lives wide. Someone who contains multitudes.
But your body might be trying to tell you something.
As a therapist in Los Angeles who is also an artist and entrepreneur, I know this terrain from the inside — including what it feels like to keep it all together through the installation, the deadline, the launch, and then finally get sick the moment it's over.
This is for you.
When the MFA Almost Broke You: Healing from Art School Trauma
If you've ever left a graduate art program feeling like something essential was taken from you: your creative voice, your confidence, your joy in making. This post is for you. What happened has a name. And you are not the problem.