Megan Pasierbek Megan Pasierbek

You’re not too sensitive. You just never felt safe to feel.

You’re not too emotional, you just learned early that it wasn’t safe to feel. This blog explores how emotional trauma shows up in high-functioning women who can talk about their feelings but struggle to actually feel them, and what healing at the nervous system level really looks like.

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Megan Pasierbek Megan Pasierbek

If you’re trying to be everything for everyone, and wondering why it feels so hard, this might be why…

You are across the sports, the snacks, the school pickups, the emotional check-ins. You are so attuned to your child that you feel their feelings in your own body. You are doing it all. And still, it feels like too much. This piece is for the woman who is trying her hardest to give her child everything she didn’t get, and quietly grieving the part of her that never got it.

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Megan Pasierbek Megan Pasierbek

You Don’t Need More Mindset Work. You Need Integration.

You don’t need more insight, you need integration. In this post, we explore why mindset work can’t fully heal trauma, how your nervous system stores what your mind forgets, and how somatic IFS therapy helps you reconnect, release, and move forward.

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Megan Pasierbek Megan Pasierbek

Dear High-Achieving Woman: It’s Not Burnout. It’s Trauma.

You’ve called it burnout. But what if the exhaustion, overthinking, and emotional shutdown isn’t from doing too much—but from carrying too much for too long? For high-achieving women, it’s often not burnout. It’s trauma. Here's why that matters.

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