The core split emotional neglect often leaves behind - and how it shows up in your self-worth.

High achievement can be a mask. So can emotional competence.

You learned to survive by staying composed — but the cost may be intimacy.

When closeness hurts and distance does too, something deeper is at play.

You don’t have to become better to be worthy of healing.

Many of us were trained to care for others, not to receive care ourselves.

Sometimes, what looks like depression is actually a hunger for vitality.

A reflection on the hidden world of high-functioning pain - and what healing can look like.