Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find reflections on therapy, identity, culture, and relationships, as well as the everyday psychological patterns that shape how we think and feel. Life is just a lot sometimes. Healing isn’t a straight line, and it’s completely okay if you’re still figuring things out, as most people are. One thing that makes it easier is knowing you’re not alone, so I hope you find something here that resonates with you.
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The Avoidance-Anxiety Cycle
When something makes us anxious, the instinctual reaction is often to avoid the feared stimulus. This is very common: who among us hasn’t procrastinated a big task, put off making phone calls or having a difficult conversation with a friend? We can distinguish between different types of avoidance: Avoidance plays a huge role in many
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How to work with your brain (not against it)
“You just need to try harder. Focus better. Be more motivated”. Discipline, effort, pushing through, doing whatever it takes. How many of us have constantly been surrounded by these types of messages, and how many of us talk to ourselves that way? With self-improvement culture and the “lock-in” mentality on the rise (especially on social
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The Holistic Approach to Mental Health
What is holistic therapy? A holistic approach to mental health, in simple terms, means taking all aspects of the person’s lives into account by addressing health as an interconnected system of thoughts, emotions, biology, and social, physical, spiritual and cultural environment. In practice, this means promoting overall wellness and focusing on prevention, rather than treating
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AI in Mental Health
If you’ve ever used ChatGPT or a similar AI language model as a pseudo-therapist, you’re not alone. In fact, its one of the most common uses for AI today, as it can offer comfort and even companionship and an increasingly lonely world. For many, it has real benefits, but research suggests it also carries significant
