Category: Wellness
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Fawn: A Powerful Trauma Response We Need to Know
Somewhere along our healing journey, we’ve all heard something like, “Why didn’t you just say no?” or, “You looked like you seemed to be Okay with it”. Or, even worse, “You should have said no.” Or “Next time, you need to say no–at least, show it, act on it.” There is a serious level of
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Are We Living in a Just World?
When you experience something unfortunate and eventually reach out to talk about it, you’ll notice a pattern in how people respond. They’ll ask questions that sound like curiosity but feel like interrogation. “Have you tried?” “You should’ve done/I would do xyz!” “What did you do that might have contributed to the situation?” These questions may
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Can We Really Date Our Way Out of a Dysfunctional Family?
Most people who are trapped in toxic relationships are not naive or weak. Instead, they might be the most perceptive, emotionally intelligent, and perfectly capable of identifying dysfunction in other people’s lives. The pattern they cannot seem to see is their own. And when they finally do see it, the explanation tends to reach back
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Ayurveda: How Does It Work, Really?
The insomnia had been getting worse to the point where you couldn’t stay asleep. Waking up at 3 AM with my mind already running, cataloging failures and spinning scenarios for problems that haven’t happened yet. My doctor suggested the usual: sleep hygiene, maybe a low-dose medication. My therapist called it anxiety. Both were probably right,
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Is Silence Really a Strategic Move in Emotional Abuse?
The meaning and interpretations of silence can vary depending on the developmental phase. If you grew up in an unpredictable and chaotic household with emotionally unstable caregivers, you might register silence as a survival mechanism. Then, during the transition to early adulthood, people began to blame victims, blindly worshipping surface-level power, and associating silence with
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