Experiential avoidance is not merely a symptom of psychological distress but is one of its central engines, linked across hundreds of independent studies and multiple meta-analyses to poorer outcomes in mental health, in addiction, and in physical illness alike. What this means practically is that therapies which work directly on our willingness to make room for difficult thoughts and feelings, rather than on our capacity to defeat them, are addressing something with real me

The identity shift of becoming a mother is seismic and dangerously under-supported. Asian culture compounds the problem. Two competing identities jostle for space: the self they were, and the self they are now expected to expected to become.

Anticipatory grief is often confusing because it may feel like the mourning has begun even before a loss.