Grief or Rumination? When anxiety hijacks the grieving process
Understanding the difference between the sadness of grief and the rumination that results from anxiety and depression is essential for emotional processing and, ultimately, healing. Often conflated, these two emotions serve very different purposes in our nervous systems.
Interdependence: Why Community Matters and how to build it
If you’ve ever felt the tension between longing for closeness with others and the fear of being seen as dependent, you’re not alone. Our dominant culture promotes the harmful narrative of ableism, which not only hurts disabled people but also hurts everyone by keeping us isolated and overburdened.