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Writing that explores the deeper layers of emotional wellbeing, beyond surface-level advice or quick tips. These essays draw from clinical experience, research, and a nuanced understanding of anxiety, burnout, identity, and change.
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Healing from Financial Trauma: It's Not Just About the Money
Financial trauma shapes how we think, feel, and make decisions around money — often without us realizing it. In this post, we explore how fear, guilt, shame, generational patterns, and nervous system responses influence financial wellbeing, and what it truly takes to heal your relationship with money.
Weaponized Vulnerability: Unmasking the Covert Narcissist’s Playbook
Covert narcissists (i.e., vulnerable narcissists) don’t always look dangerous at first glance. They often seem fragile, sensitive, or misunderstood. But behind the mask, they use subtle tactics that leave you questioning your reality and doubting yourself. In this post, we’ll break down the features and patterns of covert narcissism, how weaponized vulnerability shows up in real life, and ways online therapy for women can help you heal and protect your peace.
The Secret Ingredient for Protecting Your Mental Health When the World is on Fire
Lately the world feels heavy, from global conflicts to everyday stress, it can be hard to stay hopeful. This post explores psychological flexibility, the hidden ingredient for protecting your mental health, and how online therapy for women can help you build it.
Stuck in Your Head? How to Break Free from Rumination
Ever find yourself replaying the same thoughts over and over? Rumination can feel like a mental loop you can’t turn off, draining your energy, amplifying anxiety, and keeping you stuck. In this post, you’ll learn why rumination happens and practical ways to break free so you can reclaim your peace of mind.
Is Forgiveness Necessary for Healing?
Forgiveness is often portrayed as the ultimate path to healing—but when trauma is involved, it can feel impossible or even harmful. So, is forgiveness truly essential for moving forward? This post explores the emotional complexities of forgiveness and why healing is still possible, even when forgiveness feels out of reach.
7 Tips for Coping with Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is more than just shyness. It’s a persistent and intense fear of judgment or rejection in social situations, often despite knowing it’s irrational. This post explores seven practical tips to help you feel more confident and less overwhelmed in everyday interactions.
Understanding Cuban Culture & Trauma: A Cuban Therapist's Guide
From spotless homes to passionate storytelling, Cuban culture is full of vibrant traits—many rooted in a history of trauma, scarcity, and resilience. This post explores the deeper meaning behind familiar Cuban tendencies through the lens of a Cuban therapist.
What Is Your Money Attachment Style (And Why Should You Care)?
Your relationship with money is more emotional than you think. This post explores different money attachment styles and money scripts, and how understanding yours can improve financial wellness and reduce stress.
Inner Child Work: What It is and How It Can Transform Your Life
Inner child work helps you reconnect with your younger self to heal emotional wounds and break old patterns. Learn how this powerful practice can transform your life.
The Scars You Can’t See: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home
Children raised in homes with alcoholism often carry invisible wounds into adulthood. This post explores how that early chaos shapes emotional health, and how healing begins.
Beyond 'Never Enough': Silencing the Inner Critic
Breaking Free from Perfectionism: Embracing Progress Over Perfect
Perfectionism can drive success, but it can also fuel stress, burnout, and self-doubt. Learn how to trade pressure for progress and thrive with a healthier mindset.
When Trauma Lingers: Untangling the Path to Healing
Trauma and PTSD are connected, but they’re not the same. This post explores how trauma can affect the mind and body, when it may evolve into PTSD, and what healing can look like for those carrying deep emotional wounds.
Maria Perdomo-Torres, LCSW-S, MHA, CFSW, is a bilingual psychotherapist and founder of Graceful Mind Therapy, a specialized private practice for accomplished women navigating anxiety, burnout, and the internal weight of high expectations. Her writing explores mental health, identity, emotional patterns, and the inner lives of women moving through complexity, responsibility, and growth.