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Why It Feels So Scary to Be Wrong—And How to Build More Accountability
Most of us have felt it: that sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach when we realize we’ve made a mistake, hurt someone, or gotten something wrong. Our brains often treat these moments like emergencies, flooding us with shame, defensiveness, or panic. But why does it feel so terrifying to be wrong? And how can we move from fear into accountability? Why Being Wrong Feels So Threatening Our brains equate mistakes with danger. We are physically wired to see threats before saf
Katrina Foster
Oct 155 min read
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Experiential: Show Them
Sometimes we become disconnected from our partners. Whether you are feeling steamrolled, dropped, deprioritized, engulfed, or just unmet,...
Katrina Foster
Aug 273 min read
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The Function of Anger
How do you feel about your feelings? Feelings can be overwhelming, problematic, or inconvenient, and they can also be important tools to...
Katrina Foster
Sep 21, 20234 min read
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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a safe, effective way to enhance traditional psychotherapy by increasing your brain's capacity...
Katrina Foster
Sep 5, 20236 min read
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Why to let go of the word "should"
'Should' is a fraught word, one that often leads to unintended harm. Here is an exploration of that word, its impact, and ways we can...
Katrina Foster
Jul 25, 20233 min read
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Values and Feeling Valuable
What are Values? How do they relate to the ways we value ourselves? What about how we value (and how we are are valued by) our partners?...
Katrina Foster
Jul 1, 20204 min read
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Regulation
We all know what it feels like to walk into a job interview, or onto a stage, or before some other big personal challenge with a racing...
Katrina Foster
Feb 28, 20207 min read
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How to Fight Better
Conflict is absolutely necessary for a healthy relationship. And yet, most of us struggle to do conflict well. Many of us are taught that...
Katrina Foster
Feb 9, 20206 min read
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Touch
Physical contact is a fundamental human need. This is not an overstatement. Decades ago, while investigating into high mortality rates at...
Katrina Foster
Feb 1, 20202 min read
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Find what you're looking for...
Whether it be alone or with significant others, the way you perceive is influenced deeply by the things you choose to pay attention to....
Katrina Foster
Jan 28, 20205 min read
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flow state
The 'flow state' is defined as the experience you might have when you are immersed in an activity where you lose sense of time and space....
Katrina Foster
Dec 11, 20193 min read
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