Explore 16 reflections curated under this subfolder.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
The quiet truth that our nervous systems were not made to do this alone. This piece walks through co-regulation, the tend-and-befriend response, and what gets in the way of safe connection in modern life.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Why so many women with attention difficulties have been quietly carrying emotional storms too. Research shows emotional dysregulation appears in 25–45% of children and 30–70% of adults with ADHD.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
For autistic women, who feel deeply, and have often been told they feel "wrong." Alexithymia, intolerance of uncertainty, the sensory layer, the cost of masking, and what helps.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Understanding why feelings can come so big in BPD, and why this is not a flaw of character. The childhood roots, the particular wound of shame, the five skills often missing, and what helps.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Why food often becomes the place where unbearable emotions are quietly held. What research shows about emotional clarity, acceptance, the role of shame, the trauma layer, and the quiet preoccupation many women carry.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
For women living with schizophrenia, whose emotional inner life is often missed by everyone around them. Anhedonia, the liking/wanting gap, the cognitive bridge, and what helps.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Why so many women with emotional struggles have been quietly carrying something heavier. How trauma and emotional dysregulation feed each other, the framework of complex PTSD, and what helps.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
What helps with emotional dysregulation, what takes time, and what to remember on the hard days. The closing reflection on self-compassion, the body, safe relationships, when professional support helps, and small daily anchors.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Small daily practices that gently bring the nervous system back to calm — slow breathing, cold exposure, humming, gentle movement, sensory grounding, self-containment, and time in nature.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Understanding chronic stress and what it really feels like in the body — why the sympathetic nervous system is meant for short bursts, and how recovery into the rest-and-digest state matters as much as the stress response itself.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
A gentle introduction to how your nervous system actually responds — the three-state model from Polyvagal Theory, why naming the shutdown state often brings relief, and why the goal is flexibility rather than permanent calm.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Meet the longest nerve in your body — the one that helps you settle. This piece walks through what the vagus nerve does, why vagal tone matters for women's health, and the hope in knowing the nerve is responsive to small daily practices.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
The gentle work of naming and allowing what we feel. Research has identified emotional clarity and emotional acceptance as the bridge skills that connect emotional health to almost every other emotional struggle.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
A gentle introduction to what happens when emotions feel too big to hold — what emotional dysregulation actually is, what it is not, where the difficulty lives, and why it runs as a thread through so many conditions.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Recognising the quiet shapes emotional dysregulation takes in everyday moments — how it feels inside, in the body, in relationships, in the hard "afterwards," and over time.
Emotional Wellbeing Emotional Regulation
Understanding the quiet roots of what we carry — childhood, emotional abuse as a particular wound, trauma, biology, the brain side of the story, and the generational thread.