If you’ve been told you “just have anxiety” but the coping skills your therapist gave you barely make a dent, you’re not imagining it — something deeper may be going on. You may be doing the breathing. The grounding. The journaling. The logic-based reframing. And yet…...
You finally did it. You took a PTSD test — maybe the PCL-5 — hoping for clarity. Hoping for someone to finally tell you what’s going on inside your mind and body. Your score: 27. Below the cutoff. Technically “not PTSD.” Your provider may have said something like,...
Have you ever sat across from a therapist, told them everything, nodded while they reflected it all back to you… and still walked out thinking: “Well, that got me nowhere.” I hear women wonder if they’re making a big deal out of nothing… or if they’ve made the whole...
You’ve been to therapy. You’ve worked on yourself. You’ve tried everything you were told would help. And yet, here you are—still feeling like something is off. Your therapist may have been kind, supportive, even well-meaning… but you weren’t getting the traction you...
You didn’t do therapy wrong. You weren’t “too broken” for it to work. And it’s not because therapy just doesn’t work either… If trauma therapy didn’t help you in the past, it’s likely because you weren’t given the right kind of therapy for what you were actually...
You were really hoping this would help. You were desperate to feel better. And you’d heard so many amazing things about EMDR—from Prince Harry to Miley Cyrus to other celebrities and even people in your own life. So when it didn’t work… it felt like a gut-punch....
