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We unpack the hidden emotional cost of infertility and miscarriage, from timed sex to secondary losses, and how hope can coexist with fear. Kimberly shares insights on military families, gaps in coverage, and practical tools to protect connection and mental health.

• Lived experience and clinical path into infertility and grief care
• How infertility creates lifelong grief patterns and secondary losses
• Timed sex, loss of spontaneity, and rebuilding intimacy
• ACT-based coping for triggers, holidays, and announcements
• Men’s silent burden and opening honest dialogue
• Military families’ barriers, Tricare gaps, and access challenges
• Mindfulness, support groups, and finding trained specialists
• How therapy validates grief, educates, and restores agency

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In this episode we explore ADHD, autism, and rejection sensitive dysphoria through a neuroaffirming lens, moving from damage-based labels to desire-led support. Diagnosis, somatic tools, and group reflection come together to reduce shame and build practical strategies for daily life.

• benefits and limits of diagnosis and accommodations
• executive function, working memory, and decision paralysis
• masking in women and the role of hormones
• misdiagnosis risks and inside-out assessment
• neurodiversity paradigm versus DSM pathologizing
• desire-based frameworks for healing and growth
• choosing neuroaffirming counseling and shared neurotype
• somatic therapy and reworked CBT with body focus
• practical tools, habit windows, and body doubling
• resources including NeuroClastic, Aucademy, and Dr. Nick Walker
• Maverick’s RSD coaching with group reflection and somatics

You can find Maverick at: the.neuroqueer.therapist on Instagram. Six-month RSD coaching program starts in January 2026

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We explore how traditional Chinese medicine treats mental health as a full-body experience, mapping emotions to tissues and channels and using acupuncture, breath, and simple habits to shift patterns. Our guest, acupuncturist and medical qigong teacher Zachary Yui, shares assessments, at-home practices, and ways to blend TCM with psychotherapy for better results.

• body-first lens for stress, anxiety, and mood
• emotions mapped to organs, channels, and fascia
• tongue and pulse as readable markers of inner state
• acupuncture and manual therapies to release held tension
• prevention through diet therapy, acupressure, qigong, and small habits
• matching treatment to today’s presentation, not just history
• complementing psychotherapy by working the unconscious body side
• a simple color-and-breath practice anyone can try

Visit wu-jixuan.ca for online consults, workshops, or to book a session if you’re in Toronto. Click the button on the website and email me so we can figure out something that works for you whether you’re local or distant.

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