Things That Helped

When you start healing, everyone talks about therapy, rest, and nervous system regulation. But few mention that your body already comes with its own built-in pharmacy, a quiet team of hormones designed to repair, soothe, and rebuild your sense of safety. They don’t get enough credit. They work in the background, re-teaching your body that peace is possible. Understanding them can remind you that your system isn’t broken. It’s simply recalibrating. Why hormones matter in heali

The Body Keeps the Score, and Sometimes, It Keeps the Weight For most of my life, I thought eating and weight were simple math: calories in, calories out. Then trauma hit, and my body rewrote every rule I thought I knew. After my collapse, food became confusing. I went through phases, days when I couldn’t eat at all, when the thought of swallowing made me nauseous. My stomach felt like it had forgotten how to exist. Then, almost overnight, the opposite: my appetite roared bac

Most headlines about mental health read like warnings. Crisis. Shortages. Burnout. Another generation falling apart. But beneath that noise, there’s another story quietly unfolding, one that’s less about collapse and more about adaptation. Here are four global shifts that actually make me believe we’re moving in the right direction. The World Is Finally Treating Mental Health Like Health, Not a Luxury Ten years ago, most governments treated mental health as optional care. No

The Terror of a Thought If you’ve ever had an intrusive thought, you know the punch-in-the-gut feeling I’m talking about. One second...