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Andrea Lystrup Therapy Andrea Lystrup Therapy is licensed in Arizona. She provides marriage counseling and individual therapy for anxiety and depression.

08/27/2026

What have been you go-to dopamine sources after obliterating whatever fuels your younger years? For me I’m leaning a lot into pleasure. Cleaning my house because I enjoy beauty, wearing perfume, laundry with scented detergent, eating tasty food, etc. definitely nothing that makes people impressed with how I spend my time, but it’s holding the ship afloat.

08/26/2026

When the same fights keep circling down the drain only to come back up again as predictively as the water cycle, often what your up against is an egosyntonic symptom, meaning that symptom or belief is so embedded into their neurobiology or family culture that they don’t believe there is another way of looking at it. Sometimes it’s a biological thing in the case of neurodivergence, and other times it’s a belief reinforced so heavily by family and outside culture that you never considered there was another way to do it. When you realize why a belief or symptom is imbedded so deeply into your psyche, then you can start to look into developing some cognitive flexibility around it and have more productive conversations around it with your partner.

08/22/2026

Lil Jon can be my therapist any day.

08/21/2026

When you have a lot of empathy for a partner who emotionally shuts down, making accommodations is a natural outcome of that, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
But one thing to consider, accommodations over time tend to shrink your window of tolerance. You get really good at fitting a life into the comfort zone, but then miss out on experiences beyond that, like good s*x.
Neurodivergence tends to carry a lot of shame, so there’s no reason to shame what’s been happening over time, just a gentle invitation to widen the window of tolerance day by day until a broader depth of human experience is available to you without it feeling exhausting.

08/20/2026

Cue the midlife Google searches about the link between perimenopause, ADHD, career burnout, and your spouse driving you crazy. Midlife is a gentle invitation to slow down and create something better.

08/19/2026

We make decisions every day to choose the life we have. We created the life we have because we’re solving for insecurities that we don’t always recognize we have. So if you’re in the space where you want something different, but not quite sure what it looks like, maybe start exploring the phrase “having is evidence of wanting” and start understanding why you aren’t choosing the the things you say you want.

*Advice is for entertainment purposes only. Any inspiration you get is coming from within, not some random woman on social media.*

08/18/2026

When you’ve created a “good” life through hyper performance, the midlife crisis burnout is scary. You intuitively know you can’t sustain this life forever, but your fear of failure screams at you not to give up. Cue escapism fantasies and dreams of running away from it all. Surrendering your belief that you can control your own outcomes is terrifying, and also so liberating. That path opens to door to conserve the energy that you once burned through anxiety and replace the feeling like the ground fell out from under you with self trust. Have you walked this road before or are you still hoping there’s another way around it?

08/13/2026

Dosing out so much dopamine for my neurodivergent couples today! Any enneagram 8’s in the house or lucky enough to have one on their side? I love 8’s. No one will have your back better than an enneagram 8.

07/16/2026

I’m living for this new generation of women who get to choose to be in relationships if they want to, knowing full well their worth. And I’m honoring my inner teenager who didn’t get to have that experience.

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