Journal

Notes & reflections.

Short essays on women's mental health, the therapy room, and the quiet work of becoming yourself. New writing is added regularly.

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What to expect at your first psychiatric visit
A walkthrough of the diagnostic assessment — what we'll talk about, what we won't, and how the plan of care comes together.
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EMDR, gently explained
An introduction to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and who it tends to help most.
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Medication is not a personality change
Common worries about starting psychiatric medication — and what the research and lived experience actually say.
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Matrescence: the becoming of a mother
Beyond postpartum — understanding the full psychological and hormonal transition into motherhood, and why it deserves its own language.
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Brainspotting: where you look affects how you feel
How a fixed eye position can unlock deeply held trauma in the brain — and why this body-based approach works when talk therapy stalls.
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Trauma lives in the body before the mind
Why trauma isn't just a memory problem, and how somatic approaches can reach what words cannot.
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Divorce as a mental health event
The grief, identity shift, and practical stress of ending a marriage — and how to care for yourself through it.
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Managing a difficult diagnosis
Receiving a serious health diagnosis — cancer, type 1 diabetes, lupus, and beyond — can upend everything. Navigating grief, identity, fear, and hope when your body and life change overnight.

What to expect at your first psychiatric visit