Writing
A post a day, across seven themes. Psychoeducation, not advice: the ordinary mechanics of how minds and nervous systems work, written for people living inside them.
23 published so far. Each links to the post on Instagram.
Holding two contradictory feelings at once
Relief and grief. Love and resentment. Pride in someone and envy of them. Wanting to go and wanting to stay.
18 September 2026
Rupture and repair in the therapy room
Something your therapist says lands wrong. There's a small flinch, a quick decision that it isn't worth mentioning, and the conversation moves along.
17 September 2026
Why understanding a pattern isn't the same as changing it
There is a particular kind of stuckness that sounds like progress.
16 September 2026
Who are you still trying to prove wrong?
This week's prompt:
13 September 2026
Make something badly.
Pick a medium you have no skill in. Clay, a bad drawing, three chords.
12 September 2026
Loneliness is not a count of people.
It is the gap between how known you feel and how known you want to be.
11 September 2026
Therapists have it all figured out.
What's true: they have training, supervision, and their own therapy. What they do not have is exemption.
10 September 2026
You cannot be curious and defended at the same moment.
Notice which one you reached for.
9 September 2026
What EMDR actually does (myth-busting)
What EMDR actually does 🤍
8 September 2026
Unfinished things keep talking.
Your mind holds open loops louder than closed ones. Psychologists call it the Zeigarnik effect: an interrupted task stays active in memory in a way a completed one does not.
7 September 2026
What would you do if no one would praise you for it?
This week's prompt:
6 September 2026
Name the season.
Sit somewhere you can see outside.
5 September 2026
Shame survives on silence.
Guilt says "I did something bad." Shame says "I am something bad."
4 September 2026
You need a big trauma to deserve therapy.
What's true: most of the work is ordinary. A pattern that keeps repeating. A relationship that keeps costing more than it gives. A decision you cannot stop rehearsing.
3 September 2026
You inherited what she did with her fear.
Some of what you carry was handed to you, already packed.
2 September 2026
This week's prompt:
Where in your life are you performing rest instead of resting?
30 August 2026
Sometimes it does. Often it doesn't, and that isn't a sign it's failin
Some of the most productive hours leave you wrung out for the rest of the day. You touched something real, and your system needs time to settle around it. Feeling worse briefly is not the same as it not working.
27 August 2026
Anniversaries arrive whether or not you remember them.
A particular slant of light in late August. The smell of a season turning. Some people find themselves inexplicably heavy in the same month every year and can't say why — until they count backward and land on a date.
26 August 2026
Everyone knows fight or flight. Fewer people know there are four.
Fight — confront, argue, control. Flight — escape, avoid, stay busy. Fawn — appease, over-give, disappear into what other people need. Freeze — numb, dissociate, go blank.
25 August 2026
This week's prompt:
What did you say yes to this week that you wanted to say no to?
23 August 2026
Listening is the beginning. It isn't the service.
A good friend listens. A therapist does something structurally different:
20 August 2026
It's a knowing that arrives before the words do.
Most people miss it because they're waiting for a sentence. It rarely comes as a sentence. It comes as a tightening, a settling, a leaning-toward, a quiet no in the chest that shows up a full beat before you can explain it.
19 August 2026
Naming a feeling measurably lowers its intensity.
Researchers call it affect labeling — and it's one of the most reliable, least dramatic tools we have. Putting language to an internal state gives the thinking part of your brain something to do besides escalate.
17 August 2026