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How Overthinking Becomes a Coping Mechanism (And How to Actually Stop)
Anxiety & Emotional Health Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 12/18/25 Anxiety & Emotional Health Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 12/18/25

How Overthinking Becomes a Coping Mechanism (And How to Actually Stop)

Overthinking often feels like clarity - but it’s really a coping mechanism rooted in trauma, anxiety, and emotional avoidance. In this blog, I share why intellectualizing keeps you stuck and how somatic therapy and EMDR help you feel, heal, and finally break the cycle.

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Your Body Remembers: The Subtle Ways Trauma Lives in the Nervous System
Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 10/16/25 Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 10/16/25

Your Body Remembers: The Subtle Ways Trauma Lives in the Nervous System

Have you heard the phrase “the body keeps the score”? Even if you don’t recall every detail, trauma can live in your body and nervous system. Here’s how it shows up - and how healing begins.

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What Is EMDR Therapy - And How Does It Actually Work?
Trauma Therapy, EMDR, Nervous System Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 7/17/25 Trauma Therapy, EMDR, Nervous System Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 7/17/25

What Is EMDR Therapy - And How Does It Actually Work?

EMDR therapy 101! What it is, how it works, and if it can be done virtually. I also cover how it rewires trauma, reduces anxiety, and can shift long-held patterns.

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What Is C-PTSD? Understanding Complex Trauma, Relational Wounds & the Path to Healing
Trauma & Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 5/25/25 Trauma & Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 5/25/25

What Is C-PTSD? Understanding Complex Trauma, Relational Wounds & the Path to Healing

C-PTSD isn’t just about what happened to you - it’s about what kept happening over time. This blog breaks down the signs of complex trauma, how it shows up in relationships, and how therapy with a trauma-informed EMDR therapist can help you begin healing.

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In addition to physical tiredness, so often it’s also emotional!⁣
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The thing about anxiety and always monitoring other people, anticipating their needs, and waiting for the other shoe to drop (aka hypervigilance) is that you’re chronical If you have been told to sit with stillness, rest more, and enjoy the peace - but you feel deeply anxious, restless or uncomfortable with it, this post and blog is for you!!⁣
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Swipe for reasons why calm can ironically create more anxiety and peace f
Sometimes the way we learned to cope growing up gets mislabeled as “dramatic,” “oversensitive,” or “too much.” Or we learn through conditioning that our needs should be minimized and our boundaries will be over-rid
Anxious and avoidant attachment often get reduced to stereotypes, but the reality is muchhhh more complex than what social media usually shows! ⁣
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For anxious attachment, it can look like managing connection through overthinking, reassurance-seeking
Relational and relationship healing isn’t just “communicating better.”⁣
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It’s unlearning the survival strategies we built:⁣
people-pleasing, shrinking, scanning for threat, chasing reassurance, managing other people’s e If you grew up people-pleasing, over-functioning, or tracking everyone else’s emotions, self-trust didn’t disappear.⁣
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It got quiet or lost in fear.⁣
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You learned early that being “wrong,” disappointing someone, or taking up

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