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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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Jun 1, 2026
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The RAIN Technique: A Simple Tool for Anxiety, Overthinking, and Emotional Overwhelm

RAIN is a mindfulness-based skill often used in DBT-informed and trauma-informed therapy spaces to help people slow down and respond to emotions differently instead of immediately reacting, avoiding, spiraling, or shutting down.
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May 18, 2026
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Finding Joy in Simple Things When Anxiety Makes Life Feel Heavy

When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, joy can start to feel unfamiliar or hard to access. That’s why anxiety management is not just about reducing stress. It’s also about helping your body reconnect with safety, presence, and small moments of joy again.
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May 4, 2026
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Why Motherhood Feels So Triggering: A Trauma-Informed Perspective for Moms in Maryland

Motherhood can feel triggering because it activates your nervous system and past experiences, not because you’re doing something wrong. If you’re feeling anxious, reactive, or shut down as a mom, you may be experiencing trauma responses like fight, flight, or freeze. To start feeling better: Notice your triggers, understand your nervous system, pause and repair instead of aiming for perfection, process deeper patterns through therapy. You don’t need to be perfect to create change. You just need to understand what’s underneath your reactions and begin working with it.
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Apr 20, 2026
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How to Cope With C-PTSD: Grounding, DBT Skills, and Somatic Tools That Help

Living with C-PTSD can feel overwhelming, confusing, and exhausting. This guide explains how complex trauma affects the nervous system and offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help you feel more grounded, regulated, and connected to yourself.
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Apr 13, 2026
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The World Feels So Heavy Right Now: Coping With Anxiety About the State of the World

Chronic exposure to distressing global events can significantly impact emotional well-being. This article explores the psychological effects of ongoing uncertainty and provides grounding strategies to support regulation and resilience.
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Mar 16, 2026
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Why Does My Partner Seem Angry for No Reason? Emotional Awareness in Relationships

Have you ever wondered, “Why does my partner randomly seem upset with me?” Feeling blindsided by your partner’s irritability or distance can be confusing and stressful. Often, their reactions aren’t personal—they are signals from their emotional system.
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Mar 9, 2026
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Why Do I Keep Dating Losers?

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why do I keep dating emotionally unavailable people?”, you’re not alone. This pattern is not about bad judgment or low standards. For many women, it is tied to attachment trauma, early relational patterns, and nervous system familiarity.
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Mar 2, 2026
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What Your Comfort Show Says About Your Nervous System

If you find yourself rewatching the same TV show when you’re overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally drained, yes yes I do that too and it always helps! Our nervous system may actually be doing exactly what it’s designed to do.
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Feb 23, 2026
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EMDR Isn’t Magic But It Can Help Your Brain Rewrite Old Stories

Have you ever wondered what EMDR actually is and how it works? You are not alone. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, can feel intimidating at first.
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Feb 16, 2026
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Why You Feel So Tired After You Finally Slow Down: Understanding Post-Survival Fatigue

If you’ve ever finally slowed down after a long stretch of stress or trauma and thought, I should feel better by now, only to feel completely drained, you are not imagining it. That exhaustion has a name: post-survival fatigue.

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