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How Control Becomes A Protector: Healing Complex PTSD For High Achievers

How Control Becomes A Protector: Healing Complex PTSD For High Achievers

by Embodied Living Therapy | Jul 30, 2026 | Trauma

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 color-coded. You stay busy because slowing down feels uncomfortable....
When Being Highly Sensitive Means You Learned to Read Everyone But Yourself

When Being Highly Sensitive Means You Learned to Read Everyone But Yourself

by Embodied Living Therapy | Jun 30, 2026 | Uncategorized

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....
Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, and the Weight of Caring: How Therapy Supports Helpers

Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, and the Weight of Caring: How Therapy Supports Helpers

by Embodied Living Therapy | Apr 30, 2026 | Uncategorized

Most of the time you love the work you do… But there are days when what you see, hear, or experience can be crushing.   The most painful, brutal, or frightening parts of being human are laid out before you. You are surrounded by it every day at work and...
Echo Park Therapist’s Guide to Overthinking

Echo Park Therapist’s Guide to Overthinking

by Embodied Living Therapy | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

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?

Why Do I Feel Like Something Is Wrong With Me?

by Embodied Living Therapy | Jan 31, 2026 | Uncategorized

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...
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