When Rejection Lands Harder Than It Should Some people experience rejection not as a moment, but as a wound reopening. A delayed text. An unread message. A comment said lightly but received heavily. Rejection Sensitivity (often referred to as RSD) is not simply being...
When Emotion Needs Language Strong emotion can arrive faster than meaning. The nervous system reacts. The body responds. Words come later, sometimes not at all. One of the quiet revolutions of our time is the ability to externalize thoughts in real time — typing them...
When the First Breath Feels Heavy For some, morning is a threshold met with anticipation. For others, it is the hardest part of the day — a racing heart before a single thought forms, a sense of dread without a clear story, a body reacting before the mind has opened...
When Emotion Has You, Before You Have Words for It Strong emotion often arrives unannounced — anger without warning, a sudden drop in the stomach, a tightening in the throat. Before the mind has language, the body speaks first. There is a quiet but powerful shift that...
The Calendar Turns, But the Psyche Keeps Its Time There is something hopeful about a new year — a line drawn on a calendar, a small symbolic threshold. Yet most of what shapes us does not reset with dates. Patterns persist. Longings persist. The parts of ourselves we...
When the Harsh Voice Turns Inward At difficult moments, the mind often reaches not for comfort but for criticism.For many, self-talk echoes old messages — inherited from family, culture, school, relationships —voices that once trained us to perform, to endure, to stay...
