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October Overwhelm Is a Real Thing — It’s Not Just You
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October is often painted as cozy: falling leaves, pumpkin spice, new goals, and fresh structure. But for many, it’s anything but. If you’ve been feeling more irritable, scattered, weepy, overwhelmed, or just plain off — you’re not broken. You’re experiencing something real: October Overwhelm. While the world shifts into productivity mode, your nervous system…
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Why September Feels So Overwhelming — It’s Not Just You
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September gets romanticized: new routines, sharpened pencils, vision boards, blank slates. But if you’re honest… it’s more like a nervous system collision. The pressure to reset. The overcommitment. The social recalibration after summer. The emotional whiplash of returning to responsibilities after a brief pause. What no one talks about is this: Your nervous system…
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You’re Not Too Much — You’ve Just Been Too Starved for Reciprocity
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Have you ever been told you’re too much? Too sensitive. Too intense. Too needy. Too emotional. Too loud. Too serious. Too talkative. Too deep. What if I told you it wasn’t true? What if you’re not too much? You’re just too starved for reciprocity. You’ve been loving with your whole heart in rooms that…
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Why Control Feels Safer Than Connection (When You Grew Up With Chaos)
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Let’s get honest about control. Not the toxic kind that wants power — but the quiet, hidden kind that shows up in calendars, cleaned counters, and perfectly written texts. The kind that over-plans vacations, scans for tone changes in texts, and spirals when someone is late. If this is you, you’re not obsessive. You’re…
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Emotional Eggshells: How Survival Patterns Keep You Small in Relationships
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You became so good at avoiding conflict, predicting moods, and shrinking yourself to keep the peace… you forgot how to stand in your own truth. If you were raised in an environment where emotions exploded without warning — or where your needs were met with silence, guilt, or rejection — you learned to survive…
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Healing Doesn’t Always Feel Good — Sometimes It Feels Like Loss, Rage, or Emptiness
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Healing isn’t always the peaceful, Instagram-worthy process it’s made out to be. Sometimes, healing feels like grief — not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re finally letting go of something that once helped you survive. Sometimes, healing feels like rage — because your voice was silenced for so long, and now it…
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Your Nervous System Isn’t Sabotaging You — It’s Protecting You
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If you’ve ever found yourself shaking after a simple conversation, withdrawing when things feel “too good,” or snapping at someone you love and then wondering, “Why did I do that?” — this is for you. You are not broken. You are not “too much.” You are not failing. Your body is remembering. When your…
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When Protection Becomes Control: The Hidden Cost of Parenting From Fear
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If you’re a parent, partner, or caregiver who’s ever loved someone so much that you tried to protect them from everything—pain, risk, heartbreak, failure—this is for you. Sometimes what we call love is actually fear dressed up as control. We limit, we caution, we hover, we over-explain. We call it care. We say it’s…
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Understanding School Anxiety: For Parents
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Back-to-school jitters are common, but when worry becomes overwhelming, it may be school anxiety. This guide helps parents recognize the signs, understand triggers, and support children with compassion and practical tools for a calmer, more confident start to the school year.
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The Week Before School Starts – Back to School Stress
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The week before school starts is a pressure cooker for parents and kids alike. Between last-minute supply runs, changing sleep schedules, and the emotional build-up to day one, nervous systems can tip into overdrive. In this guide, Dallas therapist Elizabeth McConnell, LPC, shares seven simple, science-backed ways to lower the load — so you…