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Limerence, Fuckboys, & Why Your Timing Is Never a Coincidence

You just got out of something. Maybe it ended messy, maybe it ended quiet, maybe it hasn't totally ended--but either way you're newly single or single(ish) and telling yourself you're just having fun..

Relationships

7 min read

What is Grief?

Why We Don't Call It Grief Part of the reluctance is proportion. It can feel indulgent, even offensive, to use the word "grief" for a job loss when someone down the street just lost a parent. So we downgrade it. We call it "stress," or "a rough patch," or "just needing to process things." We minimize the loss so it fits into a size we think we're allowed to feel.

Grief

3 min read

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn — and the Two Nobody Talks About: Burnout & Reconciliation

Why I wanted to write this: because even two people who study this stuff for a living can look at the same internal state and not agree on what to call it. If it's confusing to us, it's confusing to the people living it without the vocabulary at all.

Stress

5 min read

The 5 Asks of Grief

You've probably heard of the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — a tidy staircase, one step after another, ending somewhere called "acceptance" like it's a finish line. I don't work with stages. I work with asks.

Grief

3 min read

Affective Interventions or Cognitive Interventions - Should We Fix it or Feel It?

I've learned, in 20+ years of sitting with people at their most tender (and as a leader before I was a therapist), that if we don't understand this difference, we end up handing people a map to a city they never asked to visit.

Relationships

4 min read

The Trouble With Spiritual Bypassing

I've spent much of my career living in the bridge between science and faith, between the nervous system and the soul. I believe healing needs both. But I've also watched people — clients, friends, sometimes myself in an earlier season of life — use spiritual language and or tools as a way to avoid healing instead of a way into it.

Depth Psychology & Spirituality

5 min read

What is a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach?

The BPSS model recognizes that health is shaped by multiple, interconnected factors: Biological: Your physical health, genetics, and medical history Psychological: Your emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and coping skills Social: Your relationships, community, cultural background, and support systems Spiritual: Your beliefs, values, sense of purpose, and spiritual practices

Women's Issues

2 min read

Pleasure vs. Desire | Know the Difference

Understanding the difference between pleasure vs desire is not just fascinating, but also deeply valuable for improving intimacy and fostering a more fulfilling sexual connection.

Sex & Sexuality

3 min read

Intimacy vs. Intensity - Don't get it confused.

In relationships, understanding the dynamics of intimacy and intensity can be transformative. Let’s dive into what each one means, how they show up in relationships and sex, why they’re both valuable, and why it’s critical to distinguish between Intensity vs. Intimacy.

Sex & Sexuality

3 min read

Don't Want Sex? Examining the Intersection of Stress & Low Desire.

You've been running on fumes since Tuesday. Your to-do list is longer than your arm, your brain won't shut off, and your partner gives you the look — and somewhere inside you, there's a part of you that genuinely wants to want it....But your body?

Sex & Sexuality

4 min read

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My name is Dena Bradford, MA

Dena is a psychotherapy student, healthcare executive, and medicine woman.

A near-death health experience in her 30s prompted Dena to shift from a traditional industrialized healthcare philosophy in search of a deeper meaning to life, a stronger connection to God, and embracing balance at the intersection of the mind, body, brain and spirit for healing.

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ARTICLES

Limerence, Fuckboys, & Why Your Timing Is Never a Coincidence

What is Grief?

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn — and the Two Nobody Talks About: Burnout & Reconciliation

The 5 Asks of Grief

Affective Interventions or Cognitive Interventions - Should We Fix it or Feel It?

The Trouble With Spiritual Bypassing

What is a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach?

Pleasure vs. Desire | Know the Difference

Intimacy vs. Intensity - Don't get it confused.

Don't Want Sex? Examining the Intersection of Stress & Low Desire.

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