Feeling Numb isn't a sign that something is wrong with you.
For a long time, I didn’t think of it as numbness. I thought of it as composure, as being grounded, as being the kind of person who could hold it together when things got hard, the one who didn’t overreact, the one who stayed steady, the one who could keep going no matter what showed up around me. It made sense to me that I stayed that way, that I liked being the one people could count on, the one who didn’t fall apart, the one who could keep things moving even when everythin
What Is Somatic Therapy — And Can It Actually Work Online?
I meet with many people for whom talk therapy wasn't the problem. They'd done the work. They understood their patterns, sometimes with remarkable clarity — the childhood roots, the coping strategies, the ways they'd learned to manage. And still, something remained unchanged at a level that insight alone couldn't reach. The body had been holding the story the whole time. Somatic therapy begins with a foundational premise that trauma and chronic stress aren't only stored in mem
Outgrowing Survival Mode: When Your Body Says “Enough”
For many people, survival mode doesn’t begin with a dramatic event. It often begins quietly, almost invisibly, in childhood homes where emotions were unpredictable or ignored. A seven-year-old learning not to cry after being told to “calm down.” A teenager keeping the peace in a household shaped by addiction. A young adult navigating the aftermath of divorce before their nervous system has ever known stability. Survival mode forms in these small, repeated moments of having to