Managing Travel Anxiety
I’ve talked about how when you have anxiety – your nervous system can mistake excitement for anxiety. Today we’re going to chat about travel anxiety – something that’s supposed to be fun and exciting but for many of…
WFH Self-Care Ideas
I’m coming up on four years since I quit my real-life job for this absolutely magical one. I’ve had a lot of struggles working for myself. Work-life balance was a big one and being my own boss was…
Self-Care Also Looks Like…
When you hear “self-care,” what pops into your head? Right now, for me it looks like not working past 8pm because it’s been a long day and I deserve a break even though there’s still stuff to do…
Happy Brain Chemicals & Mood Boosters
Our brains are kinda like tiny potion labs that are constantly mixing up little chemical concoctions that affect how we feel. If your brain sometimes feels like it’s got a slightly dysfunctional production line or like the dopamine…
From Doom-Scrolling to Hope-Questing
Do you doom-scroll? I did, sometimes I do. It ramps up my anxiety, it makes my stomach hurt, and it sends me into this spiral of, well… doom. Doom-scrolling is getting stuck in this cycle of reading negative…
What is C-PTSD?
I’ve talked about trauma before but today I want to talk about what is C-PTSD? In the last decade, we’ve come so far in our understanding of what trauma is and how it can affect us in the…
