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Shame isn't a signal you're bad. It's a signal you're human.
Shame doesn’t yell—it whispers. It rewrites how you see yourself and convinces you that struggling means you’re defective. But shame isn’t a flaw. It’s a defense. And healing starts by choosing something kinder in response.

Joshua Ericson
3 days ago2 min read
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I thought I was broken. Turns out, I just had shame.
I spent years thinking I was lazy, broken, or just not trying hard enough. Turns out, I wasn’t defective—I was carrying shame. Once I could name it, everything started to change.

Joshua Ericson
6 days ago2 min read
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Therapy isn't magic, but it did wreck my favorite coping strategy.
Therapy didn’t just help me grow—it made some of my favorite coping strategies unusable. Detached humor, emotional shutdown, overworking? They don’t work like they used to. And weirdly, that’s how I knew the work was working.

Joshua Ericson
May 82 min read
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That Text Was Totally About Me… Right?
A short text message is all it takes to send an overthinker into full psychological meltdown. But maybe—just maybe—it really was just a text

Joshua Ericson
Apr 292 min read
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Take the Break Before the Break Takes You
Burnout doesn’t always come with sirens. Sometimes it just feels like you're tired, distant, and disconnected—and you keep pushing anyway. R

Joshua Ericson
Apr 273 min read
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Silence Isn’t Strength If It’s Hiding Who You Are
Silence isn’t always strength. Sometimes, it’s a mask we wear to protect ourselves. But real healing starts when we let ourselves be seen—im

Joshua Ericson
Apr 253 min read
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Healing Doesn’t Look Like the Movies
Real healing doesn’t come with a montage. It’s messy, nonlinear, and sometimes invisible. But every small, stubborn choice to keep going? Th

Joshua Ericson
Apr 132 min read
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Therapy Isn’t a Straight Line—And That’s the Point
Therapy isn’t a straight path to your best self—it’s a tangled, messy trail full of setbacks, realizations, and slow progress. That’s not fa

Joshua Ericson
Apr 72 min read
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