The Journal

Insights, Stories, and Gentle Disruptions

Welcome to The Journal—a space for the woman who’s done the therapy, knows her patterns, and is ready to feel different, not just think differently.

Here, you’ll find stories, reflections, and insights that help you understand your nervous system, unhook from survival patterns, and build a body that feels safe enough to exhale.

These are not quick-fix tips or surface-level affirmations. This is about creating real, felt change in your everyday life—so you can move from simply coping to truly living.

Tara Gallagher

Why labelling emotions keeps you stuck: feelings last 90 seconds, but resisting them traps you. Learn to feel, not think, your way free.

Tara Gallagher

Trauma isn’t the story — it’s what your body still holds. Here’s why talk therapy feels like the slow train, and how healing starts in the n ...

Tara Gallagher

So many women believe healing has to be hard — years of talking, processing, and pushing through pain. But trauma doesn’t live in the pas ...

Tara Gallagher

Triggers aren’t proof you’re broken — they’re messages from your nervous system. This post explores how triggers show up in everyday life, why... ...

Tara Gallagher

When therapy stops working and words won’t cut it—there’s the playlist. This blog explores how music becomes a reclamation, a rebellion, regul ...

Tara Gallagher

It started with maggots in my kitchen. And ended in a deeper truth about why healing can’t stay on the surface. This one’s raw. Real. Gro ...

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