You’re Not Overwhelmed Because You’re Weak: What The Organized Mind Gets Right About Cognitive Burnout
Daniel Levitin’s The Organized Mind exposes why modern life overwhelms working memory and why therapy beats hacks for true relief.
“Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart”: Why Livingston’s Life Lessons Still Cut Deep
Forty years of wisdom in thirty essays: “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart” shows how insight meets action and how therapy can bridge the gap.
Why You Still Feel Like a Kid Around Your Parents: The Psychology of Reparenting Yourself
Ever find yourself acting like a moody 11-year-old the minute you step into your childhood home? You're not regressing, your nervous system is. Here's how reparenting helps you grow up from the inside out.
Why Depression Feels Worse in the Morning (And No, You’re Not Just Lazy)
Morning depression (diurnal mood variation) is real. If dawn feels like a fight, trauma-informed therapy in Prague can help you break the cycle.
You’re Not “Too Much”: What No One Tells You About the Stigma of BPD
Borderline Personality Disorder isn’t a flaw… often it’s survival. If you’ve been labeled “too intense,” trauma-informed therapy in Prague can offer a space that doesn’t punish your pain.
When Confidence Is Just a Costume: What Michael Kaiser Teaches Us About Image, Shame, and the Fear of Being Ordinary
Not all confidence is genuine. Sometimes it’s panic in a pretty outfit. If your worth feels tied to performance, trauma-informed therapy in Prague can help you stop performing and start healing.
When High Achievement Is a Trauma Response: CPTSD Doesn’t Always Look Like Rock Bottom
Not all trauma looks like collapse. Sometimes it looks like competence, perfection, and emotional numbness. If you’ve survived by outperforming pain, therapy in Prague can help you stop performing and start healing.
When the Fight’s Over: What Thorfinn Teaches Us About Peace That Doesn’t Feel Weak
You survived by staying hard. Now peace feels alien. Thorfinn from Vinland Saga mirrors the trauma of moral injury: when surviving rewrites who you are. Online therapy in Prague can help you reclaim peace without surrendering strength.
How Do I Know If Therapy Is Queer-Affirming?
Looking for a queer-affirming therapist? Learn the signs of inclusive, LGBTQ+ competent mental health care and what red flags to avoid when choosing a therapist.
Why So Many Anime Fans Relate to Kaneki - And What That Says About Your Pain
Kindness, repression, inner monsters. Kaneki’s story in Tokyo Ghoul reflects how trauma splits identity. If you feel like a ghost of yourself, therapy can help you integrate, not suppress, who you’ve become.
People-Pleasing as a Survival Strategy
Chronic people-pleasing may look like empathy, but it’s often a trauma response rooted in attachment wounds. Learn how the fawn response develops and how schema therapy can help you heal.
“Daddy Issues” vs. “Mommy Issues”: What They Really Mean Through the Lens of Attachment
What do “daddy issues” and “mommy issues” really mean? Explore their roots in attachment theory and schema therapy to better understand your relational patterns and how to break them.
When Love Becomes Control: Enmeshment and the Narcissistic Mother
Enmeshment with a narcissistic mother can blur your identity, boundaries, and sense of self. Discover how it affects your mental health, how to spot it, and how to finally separate.
C-PTSD and Narcissistic Abuse: Why the Pain Feels Never-Ending
Surviving narcissistic abuse can leave deep emotional wounds, often leading to Complex PTSD (C-PTSD). Learn how to recognize the effects, break free from the trauma, and begin your healing journey.
Expat Burnout: How to Recognize It and Recover
Feeling like your expat adventure has turned into a slow-motion burnout spiral? 😵💫 You’re not alone. Moving abroad isn’t just about exploring new cultures—it’s also juggling work stress, social isolation, and the emotional chaos of figuring out how to function in a new country.
In this post, we break down expat burnout, its sneaky warning signs (hint: it’s not just exhaustion), and research-backed strategies to help you recover. Whether you’re stuck in low power mode or full-on contemplating moving to the mountains 🏔️, this guide has got you covered.
Emotional Baggage Fees: How Unresolved Trauma Affects Expats (and How to Unpack It)
Moving abroad can feel like a fresh start—until you realize your emotional baggage somehow made it through customs. ✈️ You can leave your home country, but unresolved trauma has a way of sneaking into your carry-on. So, what happens when the past follows you to your new life? And more importantly, how do you finally unpack it?
Key Points:
Why Relocation Can Resurface Old Wounds (Spoiler: Change = Stress, and stress = uninvited emotional flashbacks)
Signs You Might Be Carrying Emotional Baggage (Besides the 23kg suitcase of “I’m fine” energy)
How to Start Healing While Abroad (Therapy, self-care, and resisting the urge to ghost your emotions)
The Power of Finding the Right Support System
Conclusion:
Healing takes time, but you don’t have to do it alone. Whether you’re navigating life in Prague or anywhere else, processing your past can help you fully embrace your present.
Navigating Mental Health as an Expat
Moving abroad is an exciting adventure, but it can also bring unexpected emotional challenges. One day, you're living your best Emily in Paris moment, and the next, you're standing in a grocery store trying to decode food labels like you're on an episode of Survivor: Expat Edition. Many expats in Prague face culture shock, loneliness, anxiety, and burnout, often struggling to find the right support.
Research shows that expats are more prone to stress-related disorders due to relocation adjustments, loss of familiar support networks, and increased work-life pressure. Turns out, just changing your timezone doesn’t magically solve your problems.
At Studio Therapeia, we specialize in expat mental health counseling, offering sessions in English, German, and Italian. Whether you're dealing with relationship struggles, workplace stress, or identity challenges, our tailored approach helps you regain emotional balance and resilience—because no, “just winging it” is not a long-term mental health strategy.
Discover key strategies to navigate expat mental health challenges and explore how counseling can help.