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.
Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses: What Happens to Your Nervous System After You Go
I was fifteen, sitting at the park with friends, when I understood, all at once, that my queerness would eventually cost me everyone at that park and more. What I didn't have words for then is what I've spent years understanding: this is exactly what happens to the nervous system when it encounters a threat too large to respond to openly. And it holds that weight for a very long time.
Why Talk Therapy Alone Isn't Working for High-Achieving Professionals — And What to Try Instead
You've done the work. You've named the patterns, traced the wounds, and built real insight into why you are the way you are. And yet — something still feels stuck. The anxiety still spikes. The disconnection is still there. The exhaustion doesn't lift no matter how well you understand it. If this sounds familiar, you're not failing at therapy. You may simply have hit the ceiling of what talking alone can reach.