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led by dual-certified Nurse Practitioner🩺 (psych + fam)
neuroscience with soul for seekers🌿and system misfits šŸ˜Ž

I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I believe deeply in the power of mental healthcare.And I’m telling you: this won’t...
10/17/2026

I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I believe deeply in the power of mental healthcare.

And I’m telling you: this won’t stop with better mental healthcare.

We cannot prescribe away hatred. Medicate away indifference to human life. Or diagnose our way out of a culture that glorifies dominance, rewards aggression, and increasingly treats human connection as optional.

We are lonely. We are polarized. We teach too many boys that vulnerability is weakness and power means control over others. We normalize contempt, celebrate cruelty, and then act bewildered when violence follows.

And we have made extraordinarily lethal weapons accessible in a society already struggling with disconnection, resentment, and division.

Mental illness is not synonymous with hatred, entitlement, cruelty, or violence.

Psychological dysfunction is not psychiatric illness.

And blaming mental illness for every horrific act doesn’t just stigmatize millions of people living with psychiatric disorders. It distracts us from examining the social conditions, cultural beliefs, and access to lethal means that also demand our attention.

Today, children went to school. A place where they should have been safe.

And tonight, families are living through something no parent should ever have to experience.

If you’re feeling devastated, furious, terrified, helpless, or some incomprehensible combination of all four, I want you to know something:

Your emotions are normal and you’re not alone.

Grief is not a disorder. Anger at injustice is not a symptom. And feeling overwhelmed by repeated tragedy does not mean you’re failing to regulate your emotions.

Sometimes the most psychologically healthy response to something profoundly wrong is to recognize that it is profoundly wrong and feel it in your soul.

Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other.

And please, for the love of our children, let’s stop pretending that better mental healthcare will solve this problem.

We need mental healthcare. We need human connection. We need cultural change. And we need evidence-based gun violence prevention.

All of it.

šŸ–¤

I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I believe deeply in the power of mental healthcare.And I’m telling you: the better...
10/16/2026

I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I believe deeply in the power of mental healthcare.

And I’m telling you: the better mental healthcare argument is bu****it.

We cannot prescribe away hatred. Medicate away disdain for other human beings. Or diagnose our way out of a culture that glorifies dominance, rewards aggression, and increasingly treats human connection as optional.

We are lonely. We are polarized. We teach too many boys that vulnerability is weakness and power means control over others. We normalize contempt, celebrate cruelty, and then act bewildered when violence follows.

And we have made extraordinarily lethal weapons accessible in a society already struggling with disconnection, resentment, and division.

Mental illness is not synonymous with hatred, entitlement, cruelty, or apathy for human life.

Psychological dysfunction is not psychiatric illness.

And blaming mental illness for every horrific act doesn’t just stigmatize millions of people living with psychiatric disorders. It distracts us from examining the social conditions, cultural beliefs, and access to lethal means that also demand our attention.

Today, children went to school. A place where they should have been safe.

And tonight, families are living through something no parent should ever have to experience.

If you’re feeling devastated, furious, terrified, helpless, or some incomprehensible combination of all four, I want you to know something:

Of course you fu***ng are!

Grief is not a disorder. Anger at injustice is not a symptom. And feeling overwhelmed by repeated tragedy does not mean you’re failing to regulate your emotions.

Sometimes the most psychologically healthy response to something profoundly wrong is to recognize that it is profoundly wrong and feel that in our soul.

Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other.

And please, for the love of our children, let’s stop pretending that mental illness is the cause of these unspeakable tragedies.

We need mental healthcare. We need human connection. We need cultural change. We need to let boys express emotion. And we need evidence-based gun violence prevention.

All of it.

šŸ–¤

Another day, another collection of letters after my name. šŸ¤“Officially a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)!...
10/15/2026

Another day, another collection of letters after my name. šŸ¤“

Officially a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)! šŸŽ‰

For decades, women’s healthcare has been a fascinating combination of medical gaslighting and scientific neglect.

Respectfully, f**k that.

The menopausal transition can affect everything from sleep and mood to cognition, sexual health, cardiovascular health, and bone health. And women deserve providers who understand the science, recognize the nuances, and take their concerns seriously.

Is it physical? Is it psychological? Is it hormonal? Babe, I collected the credentials so we can stop playing the guessing game. šŸ’…

Women’s health deserves better. And we’re not asking nicely anymore. šŸ”„

1 in 5 women.And somehow, long before we learned that statistic, we learned the girl code.Keep your keys between your fi...
09/28/2026

1 in 5 women.

And somehow, long before we learned that statistic, we learned the girl code.

Keep your keys between your fingers in the parking lot.
Don’t walk home alone.
Don’t go jogging.
Cover your drink.
And don’t drink too much.
Share your location.
Don’t wear that.
Don’t talk about sexuality.
Don’t be too nice.
But don’t be too rude, either.
Because rejecting him might make him angry.

Passed from woman to girl, generation after generation, as casually as any other life advice.

And then we wonder why women are disproportionately anxious, hypervigilant and afraid.

Maybe women aren’t crazy.

Maybe our nervous systems know exactly what the f**k is going on.

Anyway, in the words of Dennis Reynolds:

ā€œI am untethered and my rage knows no bounds.ā€

1 in 5 women.And somehow, long before we learned that statistic, we learned the girl code.Keep your keys between your fi...
09/28/2026

1 in 5 women.

And somehow, long before we learned that statistic, we learned the girl code.

Keep your keys between your fingers in the parking lot.
Don’t walk home alone.
Don’t jog alone.
Cover your drink.
Text me when you get home.
Share your location.
Don’t wear that.
Don’t get too drunk.
Don’t be too nice.
But don’t be too rude, either.
Because rejecting him might make him angry.

Passed from woman to girl, generation after generation, as casually as any other life advice.

And then we wonder why women are disproportionately anxious, hypervigilant and afraid.

Maybe women aren’t crazy.

Maybe our nervous systems understand exactly what the f**k is going on.

Anyway, in the words of Dennis Reynolds:

ā€œI am untethered and my rage knows no bounds.ā€

Reasons to follow me.Also, conveniently, reasons to unfollow me. 🌿Around here:Natural ≠ inherently better.Toxic positivi...
09/24/2026

Reasons to follow me.
Also, conveniently, reasons to unfollow me. 🌿

Around here:

Natural ≠ inherently better.
Toxic positivity can f**k all the way off.
Psychiatric medication is healthcare, not a failing.
And if your brain does some bizarre little thing that makes you wonder, ā€œIs this just me?ā€ā€¦

I probably know why it does that. 🧠

Mental health is complicated. Humans are complicated. And I’m deeply uninterested in pretending either can be reduced to ā€œgood vibes,ā€ supplements, or a cute infographic telling you to regulate your nervous system.

Come for the neuroscience. Stay for the nuance and profanity.

Or unfollow me.

That’s an excellent form of boundary setting. šŸ˜‚

Reasons to follow me.Also, conveniently, reasons to unfollow me. 🌿Around here:Natural ≠ inherently better.Toxic positivi...
09/24/2026

Reasons to follow me.
Also, conveniently, reasons to unfollow me. 🌿

Around here:

Natural ≠ inherently better.
Toxic positivity can f**k all the way off.
Psychiatric medication is healthcare, not a moral failing.
And if your brain does some bizarre little thing that makes you wonder, ā€œIs this just me?ā€ā€¦

I probably know why it does that. 🧠

Mental health is complicated. Humans are complicated. And I’m deeply uninterested in pretending either can be reduced to ā€œgood vibes,ā€ supplements, or a cute infographic telling you to regulate your nervous system.

Come for the neuroscience. Stay for the nuance and profanity.

Or unfollow me.

Both are excellent forms of boundary setting. šŸ˜‚

Your brain is an absolutely incredible piece of biological machinery.It is also deeply committed to jumping to conclusio...
09/17/2026

Your brain is an absolutely incredible piece of biological machinery.

It is also deeply committed to jumping to conclusions. 🧠✨

It can retrieve memories that match your current mood, learn to fear something that was never actually dangerous, reinforce anxiety every time you avoid it, edit memories while you’re remembering them, and interpret ā€œI feel thisā€ as ā€œtherefore, this is objectively true.ā€

All while you’re just trying to buy groceries.

And this is exactly why understanding how our minds work matters.

Because once you know that a thought, feeling, memory, or alarm signal isn’t necessarily an objective report from Reality Headquartersā„¢, you get a little space to ask:

ā€œIs this true… or is my brain doing a brain thing?ā€

Sometimes it’s wisdom.

Sometimes it’s conditioning.

Sometimes it’s confirmation bias.

And sometimes it’s three raccoons in a trench coat operating a nervous system.

Welcome to Our Minds Are Wylde. 🌿🧠

09/09/2026

Dale Carnegie wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living in 1948, and honestly? A shocking amount of it holds up.

Does it also contain a little casual 1940s misogyny and advice about treating ulcers with milk?

Absolutely.

We take what we need and leave the rest in 1948. 🤣

But his idea of ā€œday-tight compartmentsā€ is one I genuinely love.

Your brain does not need to process yesterday, survive today, AND troubleshoot every conceivable version of tomorrow simultaneously.

Sometimes the most useful question is simply:

What actually belongs in today?

The past already happened.
The future is not currently accepting appointments.
Today has enough s**t going on.

Close the compartments. 🚢🧠

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I understand why this case is being celebrated as a win for maternal mental health.I just don’t think it is.Because some...
08/24/2026

I understand why this case is being celebrated as a win for maternal mental health.

I just don’t think it is.

Because somewhere, a new mother is having a horrifying, unwanted thought about harming her baby and wondering, What if this means I’m capable of doing it?

Somewhere else, a woman who desperately needs psychiatric treatment is reading that Lindsay Clancy was ā€œovermedicated,ā€ ā€œput on 13 medications,ā€ and ā€œbegged for help while doctors just threw pills at her.ā€

And she’s getting a little more afraid of medication.

That’s what worries me.

The Lindsay Clancy case involves profound mental illness, complicated treatment, changing diagnoses, medication starts and stops, retrospective reports, competing expert interpretations, and now enormous legal stakes.

That complexity has been flattened into a very compelling story:

She asked for help. Psychiatry failed her. Medication made her worse.

But a compelling story is not necessarily an accurate one.

And when we’re talking about maternal mental health, accuracy matters.

Unwanted, ego-dystonic intrusive thoughts about harming your baby can be terrifying. They do not mean you want to hurt your child or that you will.

Psychiatric medications aren’t evidence that your provider isn’t listening to you. Sometimes medication is the help.

Lindsay was suffering from profound mental illness while struggling with fear and ambivalence about medication. It was a common story.

Somehow, the story being told about her case will probably leave other mothers more afraid to seek the very treatment that could help them.

That’s not the mental health victory I want.

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