It’s Giving Lost in Translation: How the Internet (and Our Brains) Shape the Way We Talk
Ever notice how you sometimes can’t quite find the right words? Or how you end up using a meme, a GIF, or a slightly silly phrase to say something that’s actually kind of serious?
You’re not alone — and it’s not just about personality or style. The way we speak is shaped by bigger forces than we might realize: our brains, our culture, and yes, even the algorithms running our favorite social media platforms.
The Temptation of Judgment and the Ethics of the Other: A Reflection Through Levinas (and Beyond)
People want so desperately to control. Whether it’s a situation, an outcome, or another person’s reaction, we long for the comfort of predictability. But underneath this striving lies something more tender: a deep desire to feel safe, gratified, or simply at ease. Control is often less about dominance and more about protection.
Mapping the self: a guide to emotional healing and wholeness
Emotions are your body’s internal GPS. They aren’t obstacles—they’re signals that something needs attention.
They arise before conscious thought and aim to help you regulate, connect, and adapt. But when we block emotions—due to trauma, fear, shame, or survival needs—they go underground and show up as distress, anxiety, numbness, or disconnection.
Understanding the change triangle and it’s relation to somatic experiencing
The Change Triangle is a practical map of emotions developed by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, grounded in accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), affective neuroscience (especially the work of Jaak Panksepp), and psychodynamic theory. It's designed to help people move from states of anxiety, shame, and depression toward core emotions, open-hearted states, and authentic connection with self and others.
The Seduction of Thinking: When We Mistake Analysis for Feeling
In therapy, I often ask clients, “Can you describe what you’re feeling—what it actually feels like?” I’m inviting them into their embodied experience: the tightness in the chest, the flutter in the stomach, the heat behind the eyes. But more often than not, what I hear back is, “It feels like it means…”
This response is familiar—and telling.
The Cult of Meaning-Making: When Thinking Hijacks Feeling
In our fast-paced culture, thinking is often elevated as the highest human function—our prized problem-solver, meaning-maker, and escape hatch. But thinking, as necessary as it is, can become a trap. Especially when it overrides our capacity to feel.
Supporting a Loved One Through a Panic Attack: A Resource for Family Members, etc.
Panic attacks are overwhelming surges of fear or distress, often accompanied by racing heart, shallow breathing, dizziness, and the intense feeling that something terrible is about to happen. Though they are not physically dangerous, they are emotionally intense and deeply unsettling to witness or experience.
How to survive a panic attack
Many people have panic attacks or panic episodes. Panic might be one of the most misunderstood experiences in mental health. This is because many people don’t understand where panic is rooted in the brain and what that brain placement means. In the next post I will write about the meaning of panic attacks and how to support a loved one in a panic attack. For this post, here are immediate techniques you can try.
Why You Keep Reacting Like That: How Memory and Emotion Get Stuck—and How to Heal
Have you ever found yourself overreacting to something small, only to realize later that it reminded you of something bigger, something painful? You're not alone. There’s a reason for this—one that neuroscience and somatic therapy help us understand deeply.