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06/17/2026

Someone asked how I separate grief from the workday. Honest answer- I don't fully.
And listen, grief can feel deeply inconvenient when your life still expects you to function.

There are still emails to answer, people to care for, meetings to attend, and errands to run, even on your grief-iest days. There may be times when you feel uncertain about how you will keep moving on, and yet, somehow, we always seem to find a way to exist alongside some of our most painful feelings.

Something I'm certain of: I don't need to pretend my grief is not there in order to keep going.

I can allow my grief to be present without letting it take over every moment, and if I can do that dear ones, so can you.

Sometimes that means gently compartmentalizing while I'm working, and then intentionally creating space for my grief when I'm no longer holding space for others. I'm never ignoring or silencing my grief, simply asking it to fade to the background until I'm able to better tend to it later.

By negotiating with my grief, I have taught my body a valuable lesson about self-trust. My grief knows I will return it it, and therefore, it allows me to focus on something else when I need to.

Because my body knows it can count on me, it responds to me in ways that weren't available to me when I lived a much more critical life. By acknowledging the grief and letting it know it can have air time later, I'm strengthening my trust and connection with myself.

To those of you grieving while still having to show up for your life, I see you.

06/12/2026

Keep in mind, the strongest and most resilient people you know are likely hiding in plain sight.

To those of you who have had to hold it all together for way too long, I see you.

06/11/2026

Comment SOMATIC, and I’ll send you the details for The Body Really Does Keep the Score: An Introduction to Somatic Practices.

Therapists, your clients are not only bringing their stories into the room.

They are bringing the nervous systems that helped them survive those stories.

They may cognitively understand what happened and still feel disconnected from their body.

They may name the pattern and still struggle to soften the bracing.

They may want to slow down, but find that stillness feels threatening.

This is why somatic work matters.

Not because talk therapy is not valuable.

Not because insight doesn't create change.

Not because every therapist needs to abandon the modalities they already use.

But because trauma doesn't only live in the narrative. It often lives in their breath, their gaze, their body's tension, their ability to dissociate and disconnect from themselves, and their responses to their current environment.

This 4-hour CE-approved training was created for therapists and therapists-in-training who want a practical introduction to somatic practices they can begin bringing into their work, right now!

Inside, we explore complex trauma, bottom-up treatment options, nervous system awareness, what healing can actually look and feel like, and tangible ways to help clients slow down and reconnect with their bodies a little at a time.

To the therapists showing up for their clients and their bodies, I see you.

If you are a therapist wanting to feel more resourced in this work, comment SOMATIC and I’ll send you the details.

06/10/2026

Comment REFLECT if you’d like access to the newsletter and a little more space to sit with these ideas.

To those of you learning to look at yourself and your history with kind eyes, I see you.

(IC: Slide 1: The truth is- some of our least favorite characteristics about ourselves were once survival strategies we heavily relied on; Slide 2: Complex trauma survivors, your least savory traits were once strategies of survival; Slide 3: What if you were to see your relational traits as adaptive responses rather than symptoms?; Slide 4: What if the things you like least about yourself were the things that kept you alive?; Slide 5: Maybe, the things you want to change about yourself were once reasonable reactions to an unreasonable environment; Slide 6: It’s okay to want to change, in fact, we need to if we want to have healthy and adaptive adult relationships; Slide 7: Just know that the things you dislike about your right-now-self might have been critically important to your survival back then)

06/09/2026

It’s easier to extend kindness and understanding to others than it is to extend it to the version of you who didn’t know what you know now.

Time creates distance, and with distance it can be tempting to judge past versions of ourselves, especially if we believe we would handle something differently today than we did back then.

But dear one, there was a time when you were navigating your world with less awareness than you have today. Less language. Less self-regulation. Likely fewer resources and more fear.

Of course you made the choices you made. And while you might be tempted to write a story of blame and shame for yourself, your previous context matters.

Self-forgiveness isn’t about pretending nothing happened. It's about allowing for more of yourself to exist in your narrative. It's about allowing past and present you to be in alignment, rather than continuing to exist in a highly fragmented way.

You don’t have to keep punishing a past version of yourself who was just trying to survive.

Sometimes healing looks like fully embracing the parts of you who survived it all, even if you wish you had shown up differently. As you are able, allow your current self to thank your past self, not criticism them.

To those of you allowing more of yourself to fully exist, I see you

06/08/2026

Want to know where you need boundaries in your life? Look towards the people who dislike when you become more of yourself.

Boundaries set us free from prolonged relational distress. When we can create boundaries that support our healing, we can create safety in our connections. You belong with you, and the people who want to know the real you, belong there too.

To those of you creating safety, one cute little boundary at a time, I see you.

06/05/2026

Dear one, let them be wrong about you, and then leave them to it. Those who aren’t interested in fully seeing you shouldn’t get continued opportunities to misrepresent you.

To those of you looking at yourself so clearly, I see you.

06/04/2026

I write about this kind of thing more deeply in my newsletter. If this resonated, you can subscribe through the link in my bio. Or comment NEWSLETTER, and I’ll send it to you.

When disappointment has felt too big, too familiar, or too close to earlier pain, it makes sense that a part of you might try to protect you by lowering your expectations.

No hopes means no letdown.

No desire means no grief.

No reaching means no risk.

And for many trauma survivors, this was not pessimism. It was protection.

But as we heal, we can begin to gently separate disappointment from danger. Disappointment may hurt. It may ask us to grieve, adjust, or tell the truth about what we wanted. But disappointment is not always trauma.

When your body can begin to know the difference, you do not have to make yourself smaller just to stay safe.

You can hope. You can want. You can take measured risks. You can let yourself reach for relationships, opportunities, and experiences that matter to you.

Dear one, you do not have to abandon desire in order to survive disappointment.

To those of you learning how to hope again without leaving yourselves behind, I see you.

06/03/2026

Comment EMDR and we’ll send you the details on how this work actually helps you process what’s been stuck, not just talk about it.

06/02/2026

Dear one, not every quiet moment is danger. Not every person’s discomfort is your responsibility to fix. Not every emotional shift in the room requires you to abandon yourself.

Sometimes, healing looks like gently reminding your body that you are allowed to be here without managing everyone else’s internal world.

You can notice what is happening around you and still stay connected to what is happening within you.

To those of you learning how to return to yourselves, I see you.

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