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When Insight Isn’t Enough: How Brainspotting Changed My Healing (And Why I Offer It as a Therapist in Atlanta and Maine)
As a therapist who provides therapy for women in Atlanta, especially sensitive and highly sensitive women navigating burnout and overwhelm, I deeply value insight. I value understanding the nervous system.
Women’s Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma, and Burnout: The Path Of The Wounded Healer
Many women come to therapy wishing there were clear instructions for life — a step-by-step guide that explains where to go, what to do next, and how to feel confident in their decisions. Many are exhausted from anxiety, overwhelmed by stress, disconnected from their bodies, or carrying the weight of trauma, depression, or disordered eating. I’ve been that woman. I know it all too well.
Nervous System Regulation Is Not Calm — It’s Capacity
Somewhere along the way, nervous system regulation became synonymous with being calm, happy, or “good.” Calm. Peaceful. Grounded. Unbothered. And while those states can be lovely to experience, they are not the definition of regulation.
The End of Hierarchy: A New Paradigm for Healing
For too long, the dominant model in mental health has echoed a familiar cultural narrative: the healer holds the power, and the client must come to...
Learning to Receive: A Lesson I’m Still Practicing
Recently, I’ve been moving through a season of significant life challenges. As a woman in my late 40s, I find myself juggling so many layers at...
What Does It Mean To Be an Embodied Woman?
Most of my life I have lived outside of my body. I have lived in my mind, in thought and analysis. I have seen through my eyes, looking outside for what is happening “out there, and interpreted what I saw through my intellect.
We Are Living in a Time of Endings — And Your Inner Voice Is Calling You Home
There is something stirring in the world right now. You can feel it, can’t you? The world you were conditioned to adapt to is dissolving. And you are being called — not gently, but soulfully — to return to the truth inside your own body.
We are Human Beings – Not Human Doings
Remembering We Are Human Beings, Not Human Doings I had to unlearn (and, truthfully, still am unlearning) the very lesson that I speak about on my...
Our Culture Breeds Anxiety – How To Recognize Your Power To Change From The Inside Out
When Life Moves Faster Than You Can Breathe Because our culture is so demanding, our lives are often not our own. We are anxious, and burnt-out. It...
Tears Are Medicine: The Science and Soul of Why Crying Heals
Your tears are not a sign of weakness. They are the sacred evidence of the depth of your human experience. I’m a trauma therapist, so it’s implied...
