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Why Insight Isn’t Enough: A Relational Nervous System Approach to Healing
You can understand yourself deeply and still feel stuck. When healing focuses only on insight, something essential is often missed. This post explores why integration — not explanation — is what allows the nervous system to soften, trust to return, and healing to unfold.
Can Therapy Be a Real Relationship? Why the Therapeutic Relationship Matters for Healing
Feeling attached to your therapist can be part of healthy therapy. Learn how the therapeutic relationship, attachment, and transference support lasting emotional change—ethically and clearly.
Open Letter to Chronic Pain Providers
An open letter to providers who treat chronic pain. We tell people with chronic pain to be strong, when what they really need is safety. It’s time to change how we define healing.
Is This the Right Time for a Pain Procedure? How to Make a Thoughtful, Evidence-Informed Decision About Advanced Pain Treatments
Considering a spinal cord stimulator, nerve ablation, or other pain procedure? This post walks you through how to decide if it’s the right next step.
What Is Chronic Pain and How Do You Manage It?
Chronic pain affects more than just your body—it impacts your sleep, mood, focus, and relationships. Learn what it is, why it happens, and what treatments can help.
When Chronic Pain Becomes Too Much: How to Break the Boom-and-Bust Cycle
Pushing through chronic pain can lead to a crash-and-recover cycle that’s hard to escape. Here’s what the boom-and-bust pattern looks like—and how to stop it before burnout sets in.
When Illness Changes Your Life: Reclaiming Identity and Self Through Therapy
When chronic illness reshapes your identity, it’s easy to feel lost. In this post, discover how holistic therapy helps you grieve, heal, and reconnect with who you are now.