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Honest writing for complicated seasons.
Read Marsha's perspective on relationship patterns, postpartum and perinatal mental health, burnout, trauma, grief, anxiety, and the work of becoming steadier with yourself and others.
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Articles from Marsha.
Thoughtful guidance on concerns that often come up in therapy, written to help you understand what may be happening and what support can look like.
Perinatal and Burnout
Burnout Is Not A Personal Failure
A therapy resource for adults navigating burnout, chronic exhaustion, work stress, caregiver fatigue, perfectionism, and imposter feelings.Relationships and Attachment
Couples Therapy in Austin: When Communication Is Not Enough
Learn why couples can know the right communication skills and still stay stuck, and how therapy can help partners understand the deeper cycle.Perinatal and Burnout
Postpartum Anxiety Is Not Just Hormones
A therapy resource on postpartum anxiety, intrusive thoughts, overwhelm, identity change, and when new parents may benefit from support.Trauma, IFS, and Recovery
Religious Trauma and Faith Deconstruction: Finding Safety After Harm
A therapy resource for people healing from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, high-control religion, purity culture harm, and faith deconstruction.Relationships and Attachment
Anxious Attachment and Relationship Anxiety
Understand reassurance seeking, abandonment fear, and relationship anxiety—and how attachment therapy can help build greater steadiness.Relationships and Attachment
How Attachment Therapy Helps Adults Heal Relationship Patterns
Learn how attachment patterns shape adult relationships and how therapy can help you respond with more choice, steadiness, and connection.Relationships and Attachment
Avoidant Attachment in Relationships: When Distance Becomes Painful
Understand why closeness can feel uncomfortable, how distancing patterns affect relationships, and how attachment therapy can help.Relationships and Boundaries
Codependency vs. Connection: Staying Close Without Losing Yourself
Learn how care becomes self-abandonment, what healthy interdependence looks like, and how therapy can help with boundaries and self-trust.Grief and Perinatal Mental Health
Infertility and Pregnancy Loss: Making Room for a Complicated Grief
Compassionate guidance for the grief, uncertainty, relationship strain, and isolation that can accompany infertility and pregnancy loss.Perinatal and Postpartum
When Motherhood Feels Overwhelming: Understanding Postpartum Depression
A compassionate guide to postpartum depression, the difference between adjustment and persistent distress, and when to seek support in Austin.Religious Trauma and Recovery
Religious Trauma Therapy: Rebuilding Safety and Choice
Learn how therapy can support recovery from spiritual abuse, purity culture, high-control religion, and fear without directing your beliefs.Relationships and Boundaries
Is It a Boundary—or a Way to Avoid the Conversation?
Learn the difference between a protective boundary and using therapy language to avoid accountability, repair, or discomfort.Trauma and Recovery
Finding Trauma Therapy in Austin: What To Look For
Learn what trauma therapy can involve, what to ask a prospective therapist, and how to choose support without rushing your sense of safety.Grief and Life Transitions
Do I Need Grief Counseling If I'm Still Functioning?
You do not have to be falling apart to bring grief to therapy. Learn when support can help, even if you are still working and getting through the day.Trauma, IFS, and Recovery
Is IFS Therapy Right for You? What Parts Work Can Help With
Learn when IFS therapy may be a good fit, when another starting point may make more sense, and how parts work is often used in trauma-informed therapy.Relationships and Repair Decisions
Should We Try Couples Therapy Before We Decide to Separate?
If you are unsure whether to stay together, couples therapy can help clarify the pattern, what still feels possible, and what each partner is actually willing to do.Relationships and Self-Trust
Why Do I Lose Myself in Relationships?
Learn why some people disappear into caretaking, overexplaining, or self-doubt in relationships, and what support can help rebuild self-trust.Religious Trauma and Recovery
Why Do I Still Feel Afraid After Leaving Church?
If you left a church or high-control religious setting but still feel fear, guilt, or shame, the lingering alarm may make more sense than you think.Relationships and Attachment
Can You Have Both Anxious and Avoidant Attachment?
Understand why you might crave closeness and then pull away, what mixed attachment responses can look like, and when therapy may help.Burnout and Anxiety
5 Steps to Recovering from Burnout
Five grounded starting points for responding to depletion without treating burnout as a personal failure.Trauma, IFS, and Recovery
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Benefits, Research, and Fit
A careful look at why IFS resonates, what the evidence can and cannot yet tell us, and who may find it useful.Topics
Perinatal and BurnoutRelationships and AttachmentTrauma, IFS, and RecoveryRelationships and BoundariesGrief and Perinatal Mental HealthPerinatal and PostpartumReligious Trauma and RecoveryTrauma and RecoveryGrief and Life TransitionsRelationships and Repair DecisionsRelationships and Self-Trust