The Setup: Your Inner Committee Is Having a Meltdown 🧠 Here’s what most people miss about exclusion: it’s not a single emotion. It’s a full-blown internal coup. When Jenson got that text, multiple parts of his psychological organization activated simultaneously, […]
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In the Therapy Room: Emotional Numbness in Men
The Man Who Showed Up But Wasn’t There 🚪 The man across from me had good teeth and good posture. He held his coffee like someone trained by military or corporate America—or both. His watch cost more than my first […]
In the Therapy Room - Jas Mendola
In the Therapy Room: Emotional Numbness in Men
☕ A Bloke at the Café Who Couldn’t Feel Anything He sat across from me at Three Bags Full in Fitzroy on a Tuesday morning, the kind of café where Melbourne’s thin winter light cuts through the windows like a […]
In the Therapy Room - Jas Mendola
In the Therapy Room: Trauma, Shame, and the Complexity of Adolescent Narcissism
When Survival Skills Look Like Character Flaws 🧠 The rain fell heavy outside my office that Tuesday. Kaia-Renee sat across from me, rocking slightly in her chair, eyes fixed on her hands like they might betray her. She’d been coming […]
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In the Therapy Room: When Loyalty Becomes Your Prison
🔥 The Setup: When Your Tribe Becomes Your Trap The fire station smelled like diesel fuel and old coffee. Mark sat across from me in my office and kept his hands on his knees like he was bracing for impact. […]
In the Therapy Room - Jas Mendola
In the Therapy Room: Grief-Driven Sabotage and the Invisible Structure of Prolonged Grief
The Pattern Nobody Talks About 🔄 Kymani sat in the closing bar, rain streaking the windows, holding a glass of water like it might disappear if he let go. Four years since his father died, and nothing had changed. Everything […]
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In the Therapy Room: The Invisible Frames That Shape Our Mental Health
The Weight of Everything Unsaid 💔 Austynn sat across from me, stirring coffee that had gone cold an hour ago, eyes fixed on the table. This was the third session. Outside, rain fell with indifference. Inside, a young person was […]
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In the Therapy Room: Living with Stalking and Harassment
The man sat in my office in Solvang on a Tuesday morning, and the fear was written on him like a scar. Not a fresh wound—something older, something that had started sharp and turned into a constant hum he’d learned […]
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In the Therapy Room: The Invisible Structures of Toxic Relationships
The Setup 🍸 The bar was nearly empty when he walked in, rain still wet on his shoulders. He ordered a drink he didn’t want and sat where the light wouldn’t hit his face directly. That’s how I knew it […]
In the Therapy Room - Jas Mendola
In the Therapy Room: The Price Tag on Heartbreak
🌧️ When Love Meets Money: A Story from the Therapy Room She stood in the downpour outside my office, her coat heavy with rain. Water streamed down her face, mixing with tears she pretended weren’t there. She waited until the […]