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When Autumn Mirrors Our Inner World: Giftedness, Change, and Emotional Intensity
October is the month where nature reminds us that change can be both beautiful and unsettling. The leaves blaze with color before letting...
Melissa Koch
Oct 12 min read


Why Your Brain Might Not Fit the Box
A Love Letter to the Over-thinkers, Feelers, and Deep Processors You were never broken. You were just born into a world that hands out...
Melissa Koch
Sep 52 min read


When the Roles You’ve Played No Longer Fit
By Melissa Koch, Embodied Healing LLC August has a quiet kind of tension. The back-to-school energy is in the air—even if you’re not...
Melissa Koch
Aug 42 min read


Why Therapy Looks Different for Gifted or Emotionally Intense Women
Some women enter therapy feeling like they’re “too much.” Too sensitive, too complicated, too intense. Others arrive feeling like they’re...
Melissa Koch
Jul 72 min read


You Don’t Have to Hold It All Together This Summer In St. Louis
Summer has a reputation: sunshine, popsicles, travel plans, and smiling kids. But if you’re a mom, caregiver, or high-achiever trying to...
Melissa Koch
Jun 32 min read


When You're Tired of Being the One Everyone Leans On: A Note from a St. Louis Missouri Therapist for Women
It starts as a pattern. You’re the one who remembers the details, manages the group chat, picks up the slack, and holds it all together...
Melissa Koch
May 53 min read


It's Okay to Want More: A Note for Deeply Feeling Women in Midlife from a St. Louis Missouri Therapist
You’ve always been the strong one. It’s become the unspoken expectation — that you’ll hold everything together, manage all the moving...
Melissa Koch
Apr 142 min read
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