Harness the Mind's Power

Change doesn’t come from forcing yourself forward. It stems from recognizing the loops you’re in. You have tried so hard. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, and maybe even spent years in therapy, talking it all through. You understand why you feel this way. You can trace the patterns back to their roots, name the dynamics, and analyze your own behavior with painstaking clarity. And yet, despite all the effort, all the insight, and all the raw strength of determi

Why Anxiety Doesn’t Respond to Insight (And What Finally Does) There is a specific texture to anxiety during the holidays. It isn’t just the standard-issue dread or the garden-variety racing thoughts that visit us at 3:00 a.m. on a Tuesday in March. It’s heavier. It comes wrapped in tinsel and expectation. It’s the feeling of sitting in a room full of people you love (or are supposed to love) while your chest feels like it’s being compressed by a hydraulic press. You’re smili

What I learned after anxiety, depression, and survival mode followed me into a life that looked successful. From the outside, my life looked fine. Stable job. Responsibilities. A future that made sense. People would say things like, “You’ve got a lot going for you.” And yet, inside my body, something felt wrong. Not dramatic. Not explosive. Just… constantly on edge. I wasn’t panicking every day. I wasn’t falling apart in obvious ways. But I was tired in a way sleep didn’t fix