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Healing the Fear of Abandonment through IFS Therapy

When you hear the word "abandonment" you may think of a child left alone, but it's so much more than that. It's a feeling that adults feel to- almost like a hollow-ness inside. Meet Daniel, whose faced this & how healing changed his life.

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Love Addiction: When the Heart Keeps Choosing the Same Story

Let’s get to understand love addiction — the pull toward emotionally unavailable men, the fear of abandonment, and the repeating cycle of almost-love. Learn how somatic and EMDR therapy in NYC can help you heal love addiction and find real, lasting connection.

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How to Survive the Pain of Heartbreak (When Your Whole Body Hurts)

When love ends, the pain isn’t just emotional — it’s physical. Your chest tightens, your breath shortens, and your body forgets how to rest.
In this reflection, Esther Goldstein, LCSW, shares what’s really happening in your nervous system and how somatic therapy and attachment healing can help you survive heartbreak with compassion instead of collapse.
If you’ve ever whispered “I can’t do this” in the dark — this is for you.

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20 Minutes On A Train Left Her Feeling Trapped | A Somatic Story

She was sitting on a train, and suddenly she felt trapped. Like she couldn’t breath. She wasn’t going crazy, but she was having a body flashback. If you want to understand why your body can go into a panic spin, read more about somatic therapy. You can learn ways to calm the body- and the mind.

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Father's Day | An Invite to Heal Daddy Issues

“Happy Father’s Day”

You’re one of those people who does a pretty good job at pretending it isn’t Father’s Day, that fathers aren’t really important and that your relationship with him didn’t really matter all that much.

But deep inside, you know you’re not being fully truthful to yourself. You’re not being fully real because that comes with a risk. A risk of deep searing grief. A risk of untamed anger. A risk of relentless sadness. A risk of tears that will not be contained. A risk that you’ll fall apart, when all you’ve had to do is pull yourself together, one bit at a time.

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