Therapy Blog
Thoughts from a therapist on anxiety, trauma, embodied living, and mental health
How Control Becomes A Protector: Healing Complex PTSD For High Achievers
If you've spent a majority of your life feeling like you have to hold everything together, control can start to feel less like a choice and more like a necessity. Maybe your calendar is...
When Being Highly Sensitive Means You Learned to Read Everyone But Yourself
Do you feel like you have always been good at reading people? You notice the pause before someone answers. The subtle shift in someone's tone. The change in energy when a room suddenly feels tense. Long before anyone says they are upset, you already know. You...
Echo Park Therapist’s Guide to Overthinking
A somatic and embodied approach to getting out of your head Most people I work with at Embodied Living Therapy don’t come in saying, “I overthink.” They say, “I’m exhausted,” or “I can’t shut my brain off,” or “I know what my patterns are but I still feel...
Why Do I Feel Like Something Is Wrong With Me?
Shame is not who you are. It is what you learned. Shame often feels deeply personal. It shows up as a quiet but persistent sense that something is wrong with us at our core. Not just that we made a mistake, but that we are the mistake. Because shame lives in...
When The Holidays Feel Emotionally Complicated
Why time with family can trigger old patterns The holidays often come with an unspoken emotional weight. Even when we genuinely want to connect, spending time with family can reopen old wounds or activate familiar patterns of behavior. You may notice yourself...