The Blog
Therapy Insights for anxiety, self-esteem, young adulthood, somatic therapy, and nervous system health. Written by a Somatic Therapist offering in-person and online care across California and Arizona.
Understanding High-Functioning Anxiety
High-functioning anxiety doesn’t usually look like panic or distress. For many people, it shows up as competence, responsibility, and the quiet pressure to keep going — even when there’s little room to exhale.
When Shutdown, Numbness, or Disassociation Become the Body’s Way of Coping
Feeling numb, shut down, or disconnected can be confusing, especially when life looks fine on the outside. This post explores how shutdown develops as a protective response, and what helps the nervous system slowly reconnect.
The Hidden Cost of Being High Functioning
Being high-functioning is often praised, but it can come with a quiet cost. This post explores what it’s like to hold everything together on the outside while struggling internally, and how somatic therapy offers a place where effort isn’t required.
When Your Body Is Always “On”
When your body is always “on,” rest doesn’t come easily. This post explores why constant tension can leave you feeling exhausted rather than productive, and how somatic therapy helps the nervous system learn to settle.
A Softer Way to Enter the New Year: Setting Intentions Without Pressure
If New Year’s resolutions feel more stressful than inspiring, this is a gentler alternative. Explore how intention setting — without pressure or perfectionism — can help you enter the new year with more ease, clarity, and self-connection.
How Your Nervous System Shapes the Way You Feel About Yourself
The way we feel about ourselves is closely tied to our nervous system. When we feel overwhelmed or dysregulated, self-esteem often drops — not because something is wrong with us, but because our state shapes our thoughts.
Anxiety and the Stress of Not Knowing
When life feels uncertain, anxiety often fills the gaps. This post explores how not knowing, anticipation, and constant mental readiness can keep anxiety active — and why understanding this pattern can help loosen its grip.
Signs You’re Healing (Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like It)
Healing isn’t linear, and it doesn’t always come with fireworks. But there are signs. Subtle shifts in your body, your boundaries, and your relationships. In this blog, we explore how to recognize those changes and what they might be telling you about the deeper work that’s unfolding.
Rethinking Boundaries from a Somatic Perspective
Boundaries aren’t just something you say, they’re something you feel. In this blog, we explore what boundaries really are (and aren’t), why they’re so hard for many of us, and how a somatic approach can guide you back to your own limits, needs, and self-trust.
When Anxiety Speaks: Listening to the Messages Beneath the Noise
Anxiety isn’t just a mental storm to get rid of—it’s a signal. Sometimes it's your nervous system waving a flag, asking you to slow down, honor a need, or pay attention to what’s beneath the surface. In this blog, we explore how anxiety can hold meaning, and how listening to your body might bring more clarity than trying to “fix” the feeling.
Is This My Trauma or the Present Moment? A Therapist’s Reflection on Why the Answer Isn’t Always the Point
This reflection explores why we get stuck in that past-versus-present question, what it protects us from, and how slowing down to feel first can lead to deeper clarity and healing.
When Holiday Anxiety Creeps In: Understanding the Emotional Weight of the Season
You’re not the only one feeling off this time of year. Holiday anxiety can show up quietly—like tension in your body, irritability you can’t explain, or a vague sense of dread. In this blog, we explore what contributes to that emotional weight and how to care for yourself through it with curiosity and compassion.
The Sunday Scaries: What They Are and How To Approach Them
The Sunday Scaries aren’t always about hating your job or dreading Monday. Sometimes, they show up even after a good weekend — a subtle shift in your mood, a feeling of unease you can’t quite explain. In this blog, we explore how the Sunday Scaries might be a cue to slow down, get curious, and check in with your anxiety.
Why You Still Feel Off Even When You’re Doing All the ‘Right’ Things
You’re doing all the right things—eating well, staying active, checking off the wellness boxes—but something still feels off. In this blog, we explore how low-energy states and lingering heaviness can be signs of cumulative stress, not personal failure, and how reconnecting with your self-worth might be the missing piece.
Reclaiming Joy and Reconnecting with What Matters (After Losing Yourself in Someone Else)
Sometimes we don’t even notice we’ve lost ourselves in a relationship until we finally exhale. Until the striving stops. Until a quiet moment of stillness reminds us that we’ve been carrying so much, for so long. This post explores how we slowly disconnect from our own needs in pursuit of connection, and what it looks like to gently return to ourselves.
When the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart: Coping with Eco-Anxiety and Uncertain Futures
If the state of the world has left you feeling hopeless, anxious, or unsure how to move forward—you’re not alone. This blog explores the emotional toll of eco-anxiety and global uncertainty, and offers a few grounding ways to stay connected to what matters (even when everything feels uncertain).
Your Guide to Online Somatic Therapy: Common Questions Answered
Wondering what online somatic therapy actually looks like or if it even works? This blog answers common questions about what to expect in a session, how it works through a screen, and whether it might be a good fit for you.
The Somatic Approach to Feeling Tired but Wired
Feeling “tired but wired”? Learn how somatic therapy helps calm your nervous system, release tension, and restore balance from the inside out.
Have You Been Living in Survival Mode?
If you’ve been running on empty, always bracing for what might go wrong, or unable to release your body into rest, you might be living in survival mode. This post unpacks what survival mode really is, how it shows up in daily life, and why your nervous system might still be stuck there.
How Avoidance Reinforces Anxiety—and How Therapy Interrupts It
Avoidance might seem like a short-term fix for anxiety, but over time, it makes anxious thoughts and feelings even stronger. In this blog, we’ll unpack how avoidance reinforces anxiety and how therapy can gently help you face what you’ve been avoiding.