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What if healing isn’t about adding more — more goals, more doing, more striving?

What if it’s about slowly shedding the expectations, the roles, the masks you picked up just to feel safe or loved?

Maybe unbecoming isn’t fail

If you’ve ever been told you’re too sensitive, too needy, too intense — this is for you.
 You were never too much. You just weren’t always in places that could hold all of you.
 Therapy can be the space where your wholeness ge

Shame thrives in silence and secrecy, but sharing your story can help break the hold that shame has on you. Talking about your experiences in a safe and caring environment, such as therapy, can lead to new perspectives and meaning from these stories.

We all have stories about ourselves. Some were written for us. Some we picked up along the way.

"I’m the responsible one."
"I’m the one who never asks for much."
"I’m too much."
"I don’t kno

Avoidance works (in some ways).

It soothes anxiety in the moment. It spares you discomfort. It keeps the hard things at bay. But it also keeps you from moving through what scares you.

The job application never gets sent. The conversation never happ

Somewhere along the way, you learned how to be in the world.

Maybe you learned to stay small, to keep the peace. Maybe you learned that love is earned, that it’s fragile, that it leaves. Maybe you learned to always be in motion, because slowin

Somewhere along the way, you may have learned that love is something to earn. That it’s given when you are good enough, easy enough, lovable enough.

But real love — the kind that holds, softens, and stays — isn’t a reward. It