Grief During the Holidays:   Why This Season Makes Everything Feel Heavier
Francesa Emma Francesa Emma

Grief During the Holidays: Why This Season Makes Everything Feel Heavier

Navigating the holidays can bring a surge of internal pressure, emotional overwhelm, and expectations from every direction. Setting boundaries—without guilt—is one of the most powerful ways to protect your mental health during this season. When you’re carrying your own stress, grief, or healing, you don’t have the capacity to manage everyone else’s reactions, and you shouldn’t have to. Not everyone deserves access to your pain, and you get to choose who is safe enough to hold it with you. Learn how to recognize emotional overload, understand why your nervous system feels stretched thin, and build boundaries that support calm, clarity, and genuine connection—not burnout. This guide offers compassionate, evidence-based tools to help you honor your limits and care for your well-being through the holidays.

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Why Therapy Can Feel So Hard ( and why that is completely normal)
Francesa Emma Francesa Emma

Why Therapy Can Feel So Hard ( and why that is completely normal)

Therapy can feel hard and that’s completely normal. Learn why therapy feels uncomfortable at times, what resistance really means, and why working through it can lead to lasting growth. If you’ve been avoiding therapy or thinking about quitting, this post explains why those moments often hold the greatest potential for healing.

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High Functioning Anxiety:           The Struggles you don’t see
Francesa Emma Francesa Emma

High Functioning Anxiety: The Struggles you don’t see

We often imagine anxiety as panic attacks or someone who looks visibly overwhelmed. But anxiety can look very different.

Think about Monica from Friends. On the outside, she’s organized, dependable, always on top of everything. But underneath, she’s driven by perfectionism, fear of failure, and a need for control. That’s what high-functioning anxiety looks like in real life: people who appear capable and composed, while quietly struggling with worry and tension that never shut off..

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