by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | Anxiety, mental health, OCD
Anxiety and OCD overlap enough that they are regularly mistaken for one another, including by people who have lived with one of them for years. Both involve worry. Both involve a body that will not settle. Both get worse the harder you try to fight them. The...
by Jennifer | Sep 7, 2026 | Anxiety, mental health
Almost everyone has been stressed. Far fewer people can tell you the moment stress turned into anxiety. The line between them is genuinely blurry, and most of the people I work with crossed it long before they noticed. Here is the simplest distinction I use: stress is...
by Jennifer | Sep 3, 2025 | Anxiety, mental health
High achieving anxiety is the version almost nobody notices — including the person living with it. From the outside you look competent, reliable, the one who has it all together. Inside there is a low hum that never quite switches off. Sometimes being the person who...
by Jennifer | Feb 3, 2025 | Anxiety, mental health
Too often people seek therapy when they already feel overwhelmed, stuck, or in crisis. But what if you approached it the other way round? Proactive therapy means building coping skills, emotional resilience and self-awareness before the challenges escalate. It is the...
by Jennifer | Apr 17, 2024 | Anxiety, mental health
Feeling the pressure to constantly hustle? Let us talk about urgency culture and what it does to mental health. In a world that glorifies busyness and non-stop productivity, it is easy to get swept into a permanent state of rush. The real question is what that costs —...
by Jennifer | Dec 15, 2023 | Anxiety
The holiday season is supposed to mean joy, celebration and family. For anyone dealing with holiday anxiety, those same gatherings can be a fortnight of low-grade dread — the social demands, the expectations, and the sheer scale of a big family event all stacking on...
