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 Healthy Adult Mode in Schema Therapy
What does it mean to be an adult? This is a question that I’m sure, most people grapple with at some point during their lives. Is it when you turn 18? Or 25? When you become financially independent, or maybe when you get married or graduate from university? According to some, it’s only when you…
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Why social support matters in chronic pain
When people who’ve never experienced it think of chronic pain, they tend to only consider the most obvious symptom – pain. However, it usually comes with a whole host of other non-pain related issues, such as fatigue, brain fog, sensory issues and insomnia, as well as psychological symptoms such as depression or anxiety. What’s more,…
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Gender differences in autism
If you’ve been on social media lately, you may have come across more and more people talking about autism and how it affects them. Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition (meaning it starts in childhood) that affects how people communicate and socialize with each other and how they perceive and interact with the world…
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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…
