mental health awareness

November 21, 2025

When Helping Ourselves Becomes Hurting Ourselves: My Journey with Rumination

For years, I thought retelling my abuse story was helping me heal. I had no idea I was retraumatizing myself every single time. Today I discovered the hidden pattern that’s been keeping me stuck—and why even well-intentioned therapy can miss it. Continue reading

peer support, rumination, sacred healing, trauma Informed, trauma recovery

church abuse, coping skills, counseling, depression, emotional regulation, emotional sobriety, healing from abuse, hypervigilance, IFS, Internal Family Systems, mental health, mental health awareness, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, peer support, perfectionism, personal growth, ptsd, religious trauma, retraumatization, rumination, self-compassion, self-help, survivor, therapy, trauma healing, trauma recovery, trauma response, trauma-informed coaching, victim mentality
September 14, 2025

Are You Running on Fear?

Our nervous systems are wired to keep us alive, not to keep us happy. They’re incredibly good at detecting danger, but terrible at telling the difference between real threats and false alarms. That rustling in the bushes could be a bear or it could be a squirrel. Your nervous system doesn’t care—it just screams ‘RUN!'” Continue reading

authentic living, Nervous System, survival

adoption trauma, anxiety management, attachment healing, authentic connection, belonging and connection, body-based healing, childhood trauma, complex trauma, developmental trauma, Emotional Intelligence, emotional regulation, Emotional Safety, emotional wellness, fear response, fight or flight, grounding techniques, healing community, healing practices, healing-journey, healthy relationships, holistic healing, hypervigilance, inner child work, intergenerational trauma, Linda Thai, mental health awareness, mental health support, mindful living, mindfulness practices, nervous system regulation, nervous system reset, personal growth, recovery tools, relationship healing, resilience building, safe relationships, self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-regulation, somatic therapy, stress management, therapeutic techniques, therapeutic wisdom, therapy insights, trauma awareness, trauma education, trauma healing, trauma informed care, trauma recovery, trauma survivor, trauma therapy, wellness journey

mental health awareness

When Helping Ourselves Becomes Hurting Ourselves: My Journey with Rumination

Are You Running on Fear?