Category: Mental Wellness
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Quick Note: Not a Nerd, but No Pop Psychology Here
I recently had a commenter troll me, stating there were “an awful lot of suppositions for a fact page” with at least three grammatical errors. To validate his (judging by the commentator’s profile) feelings, I do use standardized wording such as “research suggests” or “may help” rather than making absolute claims like “if someone walks
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Quick Updates on Editorial Hiatus
I am currently away on vacation and will not be publishing new articles from April 10–20. In the spirit of practicing the very nervous system regulation I write about, I am taking some time offline to rest and recalibrate. While the weekly articles are paused, the “Daily” series is still active on TikTok and Lemon8.
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Quick Note: We’re Building the Library for Daily Insight!
If you’ve been following my work on socials, you know that these Daily facts and Daily Notes usually fly by mini carousel, still images (or the head-talking and me-as-background videos if you have seen them at the earliest stage), or quick captions. But my nervous system doesn’t really thrive on “quick and dirty”; it thrives on integration, nuances, and
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Autobiological Reasoning to Create a Life Story and Identity
We often think of our life story as a fixed library of facts, or a collection of things that “just happened” to us. But we are less of a librarian and more of an active editor. We all have that moment cringing towards memories. Or, something that once felt like a tragedy has somehow morphed into
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Window of Tolerance: An Important Framework for Trauma-Informed Care
Have you felt like there’s an invisible line you can function within, and that you’d snap if pushed across it? And this line might be changing. Sometimes, you can manage to function under pressure, yet when chronic stress accumulates over a period of time, you become hypervigilant, and even small setbacks can feel overwhelming. You
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