Stop Waiting for Someone to Tell You You're Enough
For a lot of us, "good enough" has always been borrowed from somewhere outside ourselves. Here's the psychology of why we outsource our worth — and what it looks like to take it back.
How Growing Up with a Narcissistic Parent Shapes Your Mental Health
Growing up with a narcissistic parent leaves real neurological and psychological marks. Here's why the patterns you developed made sense then — and how to begin rewriting them now.
When a Storm Hits, Run Toward It
Your feelings are not the problem.
Running from them is. In this post, learn why emotional avoidance keeps the nervous system stuck, how to tell the difference between avoidance and healthy pacing, and where to start if the storm feels too big right now.
You don’t have to get over anything. You just have to move through it.
Your Parent Might Be a Narcissist. That Doesn't Make You One.
If you grew up with a narcissistic parent, you know the particular exhaustion of a world that revolved entirely around someone else. And you may now be wondering: did that shape me into someone like them? Here's what the research actually says.
Built to Be Tough: Ryan’s Story
Ryan was the kind of man people described as solid. Then a pickup basketball game herniated two discs, a prescription followed, and eighteen months later he couldn't account for whole days. This is his story — told in his own words.