Ever notice how your stress seems to intensify at night — right when you’re supposed to be winding down? The worries that felt manageable during the day suddenly become louder, heavier, and harder to shake. You’re not imagining it. Stress often does feel worse at night — and there are real reasons why. Understanding why […]
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An internal locus of control means you believe your choices, actions, and mindset play a powerful role in shaping your life. It’s the opposite of feeling like everything happens to you. While we can’t control every outcome, we can control how we respond, what we focus on, and what we do next. Here’s how to
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“Leaky feelings” are emotions that spill out indirectly—through sarcasm, snapping, zoning out, or shutting down—especially when you’re overwhelmed. You may not even realize you’re sad, angry, or anxious until it shows up as irritation, withdrawal, or tension in your body. In high-stress moments, these unprocessed emotions “leak” because the system is overloaded. What Leaky Feelings
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Immigrants often carry invisible emotional weight. Beneath the courage it takes to start over in a new country lies a complex mix of grief, stress, identity shifts, and survival pressure. These hidden mental health challenges are often misunderstood or dismissed—by others and even by immigrants themselves. Yet acknowledging them is the first step toward healing
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Traditional therapy—built on Western, white, individualist frameworks—has often excluded, pathologized, or ignored the cultural identities, spiritual beliefs, and lived realities of people from marginalized communities. Decolonizing therapy means intentionally creating space for culture, ancestry, and identity within the healing process. It’s about restoring what colonization tried to erase: that mental health is not separate from
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When you’ve been through trauma or chronic stress, your nervous system may get stuck in a pattern of survival—fight, flight, or freeze. Even when there’s no immediate danger, your body may still respond as if it’s under threat. Polyvagal Theory gives us a roadmap back to ventral vagal, the state of calm, connection, and safety.
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