When you have experienced trauma, it can be easy to imagine healing as reaching a point where you no longer feel affected by what happened. Maybe you imagine waking up one day and realizing that you don't think about it anymore. You aren't triggered. You don't have difficult emotions. Your relationships feel easy; your body finally feels completely calm. But trauma recovery rarely looks like a straight line toward never being affected again. Healing is often much more subtle than that. It may...

Have you ever had a reaction that seemed much bigger than the situation itself? Someone raises their voice, and suddenly your heart is racing. Your partner takes longer than usual to respond to a message, and you feel a wave of panic. You walk into a particular room and suddenly feel uneasy, even though you can't immediately explain why. Or something happens that reminds you of the past, and you find yourself feeling as though you're back in an experience you thought you had already moved...

Have you ever wondered if you might be autistic? Maybe you’ve spent years feeling like certain things seem much harder for you than they seem to be for other people. Social situations can be exhausting. You may need more recovery time after being around others, feel overwhelmed by noise or busy environments, or find changes to your routine surprisingly difficult. Maybe you’ve always felt a little different, but you never had an explanation for why. For some adults, learning about autism later...