If healing was just about insight, you’d be done by now. At some point, the work asks for something else. Not more understanding. Not better language. But a different kind of contact, one that can meet what surfaces without rushing to fix it, explain it, or move past it. That’s where the real work begins.

Anxiety doesn’t always look like panic. Sometimes it’s racing thoughts, sometimes it’s a restless body. Here’s how to tell the difference between cognitive and somatic anxiety.

Trauma isn’t just what happened—it’s how your body carries it. Old survival patterns can look like anxiety, shutdown, or people-pleasing. The good news? You don’t have to stay stuck.

Participating in a breathwork session was the first time I understood that healing wasn’t about bypassing pain—it was about being with it. But more than that, it was about moving through it, breath by breath.