What We Get Wrong About Self-Love
We often think of self-love as feeling warm, positive, and appreciative toward ourselves. But what happens to the parts of our experience we don't like? A different understanding of self-love — one rooted in empathy, acceptance, and learning to support ourselves through the full range of being human — might be the key to feeling more connected, confident, and at home within ourselves.
The Reason You Know Everyone's Needs Except Your Own
Why do we sometimes become so good at understanding other people's feelings and needs while struggling to recognize our own? Explore how early experiences shape our nervous systems, influence the way we relate to ourselves, and affect our capacity for self-trust — and how we can begin building a steadier, more supportive relationship with ourselves.
4 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Nervous System Healing
Nervous system healing has become all the rage over the last handful of years. But even with all the great information and guidance out there, some of the assumptions we bring to this work can leave us approaching our healing in a sort of backwards way. Let’s look at four of them—and what happens when we turn them back around.
Understanding Yourself Isn't Enough…Here's Why
We can spend years learning about ourselves—our patterns, our histories, our nervous systems—and still not feel more at home within ourselves. A look at the difference between understanding ourselves and actually being with ourselves, and what becomes possible when self-awareness turns into relationship.
When Self-Improvement Becomes Self-Abandonment
What if some of the ways we try to improve ourselves are actually teaching us to turn away from ourselves? A look at how trying to change what’s happening within us too quickly can become a form of self-abandonment—and what a different relationship with ourselves and our experience might look like.