Offerings Edition 02
If you're reading this, congratulations! It means you care about yourself enough to learn more about your nervous system. That's already a huge step toward sensing more ease in your body and peace in your mind.
In This Edition
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When Insights Aren't Enough:
You Can't Think Your Way into a Regulated Nervous System
Specialty Care:
Therapy for Doctors & Medical Professionals
Website Redesign:
A Better User Experience
A Little Levity:
For the Moms
In Case You Missed It
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You Can’t Think Your Way into a Regulated Nervous System
Why Understanding Your Trauma & Anxiety Isn’t Always Enough to Heal It
You’ve been to therapy before. You showed up, you felt the hard feelings, and you challenged all those unhelpful thoughts that were holding you back. So why do you still feel stuck?
As a somatic therapist, I regularly encounter insightful clients who found talk therapies like CBT or supportive therapy very helpful... to a point.
Often they'd feel stuck and frustrated, asking, "If I worked so hard to help myself think better, why don't I feel better?"
The good news is: there's nothing wrong with them (or you, if you relate), and there's nothing wrong with talk therapies. You may just need a more intentional, targeted approach so your nervous system can catch up to what your mind already knows.
Read the full post to learn about the limitations of talk therapy and how to address the roots of trauma and anxiety for lasting relief.
Therapy for Doctors & Medical Professionals
For five years working at Baylor College of Medicine I was lucky to get to work with many doctors, nurses, residents, and medical researchers, both as clients and as colleagues. They became one of my favorite populations to serve.
A Lack of Specialized Care
Last year I went hunting for continuing education on therapy for healthcare workers and found very little. The closest thing was a training on secondary trauma for EMTs. While incredibly important, this topic excludes the everyday struggles so many in the medical field face.
Working with medical professionals to reduce anxiety, trauma, and perfectionism symptoms requires an adapted approach.
As a medical professional, you're often the one others lean on in a crisis, and it can be hard to let go of that competent role when you're the one who needs help.
While anxiety, trauma, and burnout are common in the general population, they show up in specific ways for healthcare workers.
- You're trained to suppress your emotions
- Mistakes can be life or death
- The rules are constantly changing
- You're expected to just keep going in the face of trauma or moral injury
Whether you're a doctor, nurse, medical student, or medical professional: You deserve the same quality of care you provide to your patients and colleagues every day.
Learn more about therapy tailored specifically to meet your needs.
Website Redesign
A Better User Experience
For a long time I've wanted to update my website to reflect the uniqueness and depth of the work clients engage in with me each week. After a recent overhaul, I finally feel like the website is now readable, digestible, and user-friendly, without being fully utilitarian.
There are also new pages on Somatic Therapy and Brainspotting so you can learn more about how they help heal trauma, anxiety, and perfectionism.
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A Little Levity for the Moms
To leave you laughing or crying
I get to work with so many amazing moms! I'm always stockpiling things to share with them, and now I finally have a space to do so in this newsletter.
Liana Finck creates some of the best comics out there, in my humble opinion, and the very best mom comics I've come across. Hopefully this lands as levity and not just another reminder of the daily mom chaos grind.
