Narcissistic abuse doesn’t just affect how you think, it impacts how you live in your body.  Many survivors learn over time to disconnect from their internal signals as a means to survival. When your experiences are repeatedly minimized, denied, or rewritten, your nervous system adapts by quieting instinct, ignoring cues, and overriding bodily wisdom. On […]

It’s official! I’ve completed Dr. Ramani’s training program and am now a Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician. As a part of our licensure as social workers, we’re required to get a certain amount of CE’s (continued education) credits per year to remain active and expand our knowledge base in order to deliver high-quality care to […]

Your body is not a trend, rather it is your vessel to help you get through your life. Something we often forget is that our bodies are always doing the best they can for us. This can be really hard to believe at times when our bodies “aren’t working” the way we want them to, […]

Helping you remain embodied (or get back to it!) is a key component of the work I do with Grief Into Gold. Because when you’re not in touch with yourself, you’re more susceptible to defer to someone else’s judgement as to what they think is best. Taking that to the societal level, it’s easy to […]

The conversation around body image has evolved, and while things have certainly gotten better, the rise of “skinnytok” is cause for concern. Megan Fox, one of the most photographed and lusted after women in the world isn’t even immune to it, with comments flooding in about her post-baby body. If the world is going to […]

For women, aging is often talked about in a less-than-stellar light. It’s something to avoid, defy, and if you must, lie about. I’ve written about how we are in fact forces of nature at this post here, “Aging is mostly a privilege,” and it’s a concept I wholeheartedly believe. Women are coerced into investing time, […]

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. It sounds complicated, and it is certainly a miraculous thing, but put simply, neuroplasticity is what allows us to learn new skills, recover from injuries, and even reshape habits and thought patterns.  While you may become stubborn with age, your […]

Fatphobia and our collective response to fat people in our community is as fascinating as it is heartbreaking. Someone being fat has nearly zero impact on anyone besides themself, and yet for some reason, we as a society are so judgmental and frankly, angry, at fat people for the simple fact of being fat. We […]

So you want to improve your relationship with your body? WELCOME TO THE CLUB, HONEY! Can you imagine the brain space that would free up if you stop thinking about how much you hate your body? We probably would have figured out life on mars and how to teleport by now. Instead we invented the […]

If the first step is familiarization, then the second step is understanding. And even as a professional specializing in the topic of Body Grief, I can assure you–the process of understanding is a lifelong effort. There are always more perspectives to learn from, experiences to share, and stories to read. My understanding of Body Grief […]