Wise Body Therapy Mental Health Blog
Stuck in Your Head? Embodiment May Be The Skill You’re Missing
What Is Embodiment, Actually—And How Do You Do It? Five Ways to Come Back Home to Your Body If you're in the mental health space, you've probably heard the suggestion to, “Be embodied.”But what does that even mean?How do you know if you’re embodied?And… how do you...
Feeling “Gross” In Your Body? My Exact Guide For What To Do
Feeling “Gross” In Your Body? A Therapist’s Guide to Coming Home to Yourself What do you do when being in you're feeling “gross” in your body—like you want to hide or crawl out of your skin? How do you navigate the painful tension of wanting to be seen as attractive...
A Dry Season by Melissa Febos
A Dry Season by Melissa Febos: A Therapist’s Reflection Discover five powerful lessons—about pleasure, people-pleasing, and becoming visible to yourself—that can completely shift the way you understand erotic energy and intimacy. In A Dry Season, Melissa Febos...
Overthinking Again? How to Work With It, Not Against Yourself
When Overthinking Won’t Stop (and Your Usual Tools Aren’t Helping) What to do when your mind is overthinking, spiraling, and nothing works? When overthinking ramps up at night, it can feel like your mind is holding you hostage. You know your tools. You’ve used them....
Panic Relief: Seven Therapist-Backed Tools to Calm Fast
Seven Therapist-Recommended Techniques to Reduce Anxiety, Stop Panic Spirals, and Ground Yourself Fast When panic hits, it can feel like your whole system goes offline—your chest tightens, thoughts race, your breath gets shallow, and suddenly you’re stuck at a “10” on...
Self-Sabotage: What You’re Missing and How To Fix It
Stuck in Self-Sabotage? Here's How To Fix It. Is self-sabotage showing up right when you’re working toward something you genuinely care about—leaving you stuck procrastinating, resisting, or even acting against your own intentions? You want to: feel more at home in...
The Tell by Amy Griffin: A Therapist’s Review
What Trauma Hides, Safety Reveals — And This Story Shows Us How The Tell by Amy Griffin Memory, Psychedelics, and the Quiet Brilliance of the Nervous System What struck me most about The Tell was its sense of wonder around memory. Our minds hold an entire inner...
What Your Dreams Mean and How to Use Them for Healing
What Your Dreams Mean: How Nighttime Messages Guide Daylight Healing Dreams have become one of the most reliable tools I use to stop abandoning myself. For years, I didn’t realize I was doing it. Self-abandonment was so deeply woven into my nervous system—so tied to...
Body Grief: How to Navigate the Pain of a Changing Body
You might not hear the phrase “body grief” very often, but the experience itself is very real. It’s a tender ache that often goes unnamed—a quiet sorrow woven into the way we relate to our bodies. It’s the heartbreak of realizing that the body you imagined—the one you...
Unmasking Autism: How This Book Redefines Belonging
Unmasking Autism by Devon Price, PhD: A Therapist’s Reflection on Masking, Creativity, and Coming Home to Yourself There’s a particular kind of loneliness I’ve carried for as long as I can remember—a quiet ache that has shaped much of my inner world. I’ve learned to...
Post-Traumatic Growth: Practical Tools to Support Your Healing
I recently wandered down a neuroscience rabbit hole, and what I learned about post-traumatic growth was too compelling not to share. Below, I’ll break things down simply—no heavy jargon—and highlight the research itself for anyone who likes to understand the science...
Belly Tension and the Nervous System: Why Sucking In Your Stomach Isn’t Helping You Heal
The Truth About Sucking In Your Belly: How Belly Tension Impacts Your Nervous System and Fascia Uncover how fascia, stress, and safety are connected—and what you can do to support healing from the inside out. Why We Hold Our Bellies In We’ve been...