Holiday meals should bring joy rather than anxiety. If intrusive thoughts about food, rules, or guilt occupy your mind, you are not alone. Understanding food noise and learning ways to quiet the chatter can help you enjoy your meals and your company with greater ease this season.

Grief doesn’t always receive the recognition it deserves. Many people navigate losses that are overlooked, minimized, or misunderstood—leaving their pain to unfold in silence. This blog explores what disenfranchised grief is, why some grief feels invisible, and how unacknowledged loss can impact your emotional well-being. Through clear examples and reflective guidance, you’ll learn how to recognize this often-hidden form of grief and discover practical ways to validate your emotions, honor your experience, and begin healing with compassion.

Ever notice how you respond to closeness? Some of us cling, some of us retreat, some of us do both depending on the day. The way we reach for people, pull away, shut down, or overthink a text isn’t random; it’s learned. It’s your attachment style: the emotional blueprint you picked up from your earliest relationships.

Ambiguous loss is the grief we feel when someone (or something) is distant but not gone. Like a relationship that faded or a loved one who changed. It disrupts our attachment system and keeps us searching for closure that never comes. Healing means learning to hold both truths: loving and letting go, missing and moving forward.

We all self-sabotage by either procrastinating, overthinking or doubting ourselves when things start to go right. It’s not weakness; it’s your brain trying to protect you from failure or rejection. The fix? Notice your patterns, challenge negative thoughts, start small and get support. Self-compassion beats self-criticism every time.

Approximately 9–10 DSM-5 diagnoses include low self-esteem as a formal diagnostic element, while it is clinically significant in many more disorders.

Low self-esteem may be common but it’s not permanent. With attention, patience and effort, it can shift and so can the way you see yourself in the world.

Take a moment to notice where low self-esteem shows up in your life.

Many of us wonder about the “whys” of life, the subtle layers of emotional experience and the ways our physical health influences our mental and relational wellbeing.

The Learning Curve is a space for that curiosity to unfold. It’s a place to explore mental health through the combined lens of psychological research and lived experience. It’s a space where knowledge meets reflection and transformation feels possible.