How attachment trauma, family systems, and the nervous system shape relational patterns long after abusive relationships end. What many people do not anticipate about healing from abusive relationships is that eventually the relationship itself stops being the center of the work. At first the grief appears attached to one person, one rupture, one betrayal. Over time something more destabilizing begins to emerge. The psyche starts recognizing that the relationship did not feel familiar by...

There has been a recent federal push to accelerate research on psychedelics—psilocybin, MDMA, and others—through an executive order aimed at reducing barriers and moving studies forward more quickly. This didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s been building for years through research, advocacy, and clinical frustration with treatments that are not working for a significant number of people. There is a real shift here: something long pushed to the margins—associated with counterculture, dismissed,...

A post has been circulating claiming that one genetic marker links multiple psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and depression. It’s the kind of headline that spreads quickly because it offers something people are always looking for: a simple explanation for complex human experiences. It’s also not what the research actually says. The study being referenced, published in Cell by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, does not identify a single gene responsible for...