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Resources for Your Healing + Growth

Here you will find supportive articles, reflections, and thoughtfully chosen resources to help you feel more grounded, understood, and cared for throughout your healing journey. Everything shared here is rooted in trauma informed care and reflects the same warmth, steadiness, and compassion you will experience in therapy at Moxie Healing Collective.

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Reflections

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Woman reflecting on PMDD symptoms and changes in mood before her period
Sep 7, 2026
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I Don’t Feel Like Myself: Could It Be PMDD Symptoms?

If you feel like a completely different person before your period every month, you may be wondering whether it’s PMS or PMDD. Learn how to recognize the patterns, symptoms, and impact of PMDD and when it may be time to seek support.
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woman standing on scale
Aug 24, 2026
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When GLP-1s Trigger Your Eating Disorder Recovery

GLP-1 medications are everywhere, and for people recovering from eating disorders or disordered eating, that visibility can bring up jealousy, resentment, comparison, anxiety, and old patterns. Here's why those reactions make sense and how to protect your recovery while navigating a culture increasingly focused on weight loss.
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family members with a chasm between them
Aug 17, 2026
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When You Change in Therapy but Your Family Doesn't

Therapy can change you without changing the people around you. Learn how boundaries, radical acceptance, grief, and self-awareness can help you navigate relationships when the people you love aren't ready to do their own work.
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Woman sitting at a desk feeling overwhelmed by multiple tasks, representing ADHD and executive functioning challenges
Aug 11, 2026
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The ADHD Traits Many Women Miss: When You’ve Been Coping for Years Without Answers

ADHD can look different in women, often hiding behind perfectionism, anxiety, overachievement, procrastination, emotional overwhelm, and relentless coping. This article explores the often-missed signs of ADHD in women, why diagnosis can come later in life, and how understanding your brain can replace self-blame with more effective support and strategies.
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monster of uncertainty
Aug 3, 2026
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Learning to Sit With Uncertainty: The Skill That Can Reduce Anxiety and Build Resilience

Uncertainty is one of the hardest parts of being human, yet it is something we all have to navigate. In this article, we explore why uncertainty feels so threatening to the brain, how intolerance of uncertainty can fuel anxiety and overthinking, and why learning to sit with the unknown is a powerful emotional regulation skill. Discover how building uncertainty tolerance can improve decision-making, relationships, resilience, and your ability to move through life with greater self-trust. You do not need to know exactly what happens next to take the next step. You need to trust that you can handle whatever comes.
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Jul 27, 2026
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The Relationship Green Flags That Can Distract You From Bigger Red Flags

Sometimes the very qualities we value most in relationships can make it harder to notice what’s missing. This blog explores how attachment patterns influence the green flags we gravitate toward and the red flags we may unintentionally explain away.
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generational trauma in parenting
Jul 20, 2026
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Parenting Styles: What Comes Naturally to Me vs. What Is Best for My Child?

Why do we parent the way we do, even when it's not how we intended? This article explores the four parenting styles; authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved, and authoritative and which style is linked to the healthiest outcomes for children. Learn how your own upbringing influences your parenting, why repair matters more than perfection, and practical ways to create a home built on connection, boundaries, and emotional safety.
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woman in hammock reading a book
Jul 6, 2026
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Why You Still Feel Stuck Even Though You Know Better

You don't heal by insight alone. True change comes from pairing self-awareness with experiences that help your nervous system feel safe enough to respond differently.
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jar of emotions colorful
Jun 29, 2026
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We've Become Addicted to Feeling Better

One of the most common moments I witness in therapy is surprisingly quiet. I'll ask a client a question that seems almost too simple. "What are you feeling right now?" More often than not, they pause. Sometimes they laugh. Sometimes they stare at the ceiling. Sometimes they answer with, "I don't know."
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woman burning out trying to keep others alive
Jun 15, 2026
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“I Thought I Was In Fight Mode.” But I Was Actually Deep In Fawn Response

A lot of people assume they are stuck in fight response because they feel irritable, emotionally reactive, overwhelmed, resentful, or constantly “on edge.” But for many trauma survivors, what actually looks like fight mode on the inside is fawn response on the outside.
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Overwhelmed therapist
Jun 8, 2026
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Therapists Are Fighting About Alma + Aetna Right Now. Here’s Why You Should Actually Care.

Therapists everywhere are talking about the recent Alma + Aetna controversy — but this conversation is about much more than one insurance company or one tech platform. It is part of a growing concern about venture-capital-backed therapy companies gaining increasing control over mental healthcare.

Resources and Links

A small and carefully curated collection of books, practices, and supportive tools recommended by Moxie Healing Collective to deepen your healing and self understanding. These selections reflect approaches we trust and return to often in our work with clients.

Trauma & Nervous System Healing

Anchored
Deb Dana
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
Janina Fisher

Self-Compassion, Worthiness & Identity

Apps & Podcasts

Insight Timer
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Free guided meditations
Finch
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A Tamagotchi-style self-care app for emotional wellness
Headspace
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Structured, simple practices
Ten Percent Happier
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Realistic, trauma-sensitive mindfulness