Balanced Body Chronicles
Listening Within: Why Interoception Is Essential for Trauma Healing
For many trauma survivors, interoception becomes distorted or was never established in the first place. Interoception is your ability to sense the internal state of your body, which is one skill needed for healing trauma. This post goes into the how of body awareness for improved mental health.
When Coping Turns Caustic: Understanding Disordered Eating Through Trauma-Informed Lenses
Disordered eating often begins as a coping strategy for trauma. Learn how trauma-informed therapy and somatic approaches can help adults heal their relationship with food, body, and self-worth.
Three Reasons Behind Disordered Eating and How to Begin Healing
Many adults struggle with disordered eating, often without realizing the deeper roots beneath the behavior. This compassionate guide explores three common reasons people develop disordered eating—trauma and emotional pain, cultural body image pressures, and the search for control in an unpredictable world.
You Don’t Have to Hate Your Body: The Power of a Health at Every Size Approach
The path to true healing doesn’t require shrinking your body but expanding your compassion, awareness, and trust in it. This body discusses how using a Health At Every Size framework.
How to Recover from an Eating Disorder: A Compassionate Guide to Healing
Recovery from an eating disorder is not about willpower. It's about healing your relationships. Your relationship to your body, your essence, and others. This blog post offers ideas about how to do just that.
Listening to Your Body: Why Body Awareness Is Vital for Mental Health
Mental health isn’t just about what we think. It’s about how we exist within our bodies in order to be adaptable.
How to Heal Shame
While shame and shame spirals are not something people widely acknowledge or talk about, many people experience them. Given shame’s underground nature, I want to bring more awareness to it and its impact on mental health.
How Joyful Movement Can Improve Your Body Image
Discover how shifting your mindset from exercise as punishment to joyful movement can boost body image, reduce shame, and reconnect you with your body—no gym guilt required.
Healing Sexual Trauma Through the Body: A Somatic Approach
Learn how somatic psychotherapy can help you overcome sexual trauma by reconnecting with your body, regulating your nervous system, and restoring a sense of safety and empowerment.
Why People with ADHD Need a Unique Therapy Approach
Discover why people with ADHD benefit from specialized psychotherapy that addresses executive function, emotional regulation, and self-esteem—beyond what traditional therapy offers.