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Paige Rome Therapy

Registered Provisional Psychologist
Trauma informed, client centred and attachment based therapy for teens, adults & couples. Based out of Airdrie, AB.

03/10/2026

A gentle reminder this morning: small steps still move you forward. Rarely does progress look like some big, dramatic change. More often it looks like…

Getting out of bed when everything feels heavy.
Pausing before reacting.
Setting a small boundary.
Choosing to speak to yourself a bit more kindly.

Growth is made in small, steady moments that slowly shift your direction.

Even the smallest step counts, especially on the days it feels hardest to take.

What’s one small step you’ve taken recently towards the change you want to see?

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙🩷

**This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Content shared here is not therapy, does not constitute professional advice, and should not be used as a substitute for mental health treatment. For personalized support, please consult a licensed therapist**

| therapy | mental health support | anxiety relief | depression support | trauma healing | personal growth | self compassion | boundaries | communication | relationships | therapist tips |

03/09/2026

Many people assume insomnia means something is wrong with their ability to sleep. But more often, sleep gets caught in a cycle.

A few difficult nights lead to understandable worry about sleep. That worry can lead us to try harder to control sleep - going to bed earlier, staying in bed longer, checking the clock, or trying to *force* ourselves to fall asleep (which is impossible, fyi).

The frustrating part is that sleep tends to work best when we stop trying to control it. When we try too hard to control or force sleep, the brain starts to see bedtime as a problem to be solved. And a problem solving mindset is not conducive to sleep.

The good news is that this cycle can be unlearned. Sleep can feel natural again. You can even learn to look forward to bedtime again!

At Common Thread Psychology, we offer CBT-I: the gold standard treatment for insomnia. With the support of a qualified therapist, you can fix your sleep cycle and set yourself up for a healthy relationship with sleep long term.

Interested? We are accepting new clients in person in Airdrie and virtually across Alberta.

Visit www.commonthreadpsychology.com to book a free consult today 🔗

**This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Content shared here is not therapy, does not constitute professional advice, and should not be used as a substitute for mental health treatment. For personalized support, please consult a licensed therapist**

| therapy | mental health support | sleep | anxiety | depression | trauma | cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia | relax | rest | recharge |

03/04/2026

Many high functioning adults rely heavily on cognitive coping strategies. Insight, reframing, and problem solving. There’s nothing wrong with these strategies! However, they are often hard to access in the case of anxiety, panic, or trauma responses. Why is that? Why can’t we simply logic our way out of it?

Emotional activation is driven by the nervous system. When threat is perceived, physiological arousal narrows access to executive functioning. We simply can’t access the more cognitive or logical part of our brain as easily. This is why bottom up interventions like breath work, sensory grounding and orienting are often necessary before cognitive strategies can be effective.

Working with the body by resourcing cues of safety in the environment can restore a sense of calm in moments of overwhelm. From there, we can shift towards logic and understanding.

Effective therapy resources both pathways.

Try this the next time you feel activated and notice how your body responds.

**This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Content shared here is not therapy, does not constitute professional advice, and should not be used as a substitute for mental health treatment. For personalized support, please consult a licensed therapist**

| therapy | trauma healing | mental health support | therapist insights | emotional regulation skills | anxiety | depression | relationships |

02/25/2026

Most of the beliefs we call “unhelpful” actually started out with the intention to be helpful. They start as protection. Perfectionism protects from criticism, people pleasing protects from rejection, hyper independence protects from disappointment or hurt, worry protects from being caught off guard…and so on and so forth.

Your nervous system learns what it needs to in order to survive. But those beliefs don’t always stay helpful. And when they become unhelpful, it’s important that we learn and adapt.

In therapy, we become curious about the beliefs we now call unhelpful. How did they once serve you? We learn to notice them, make space for the feelings underneath them and then we move towards your values - the path towards what really matters to you.

You don’t have to eliminate fear to build a meaningful life. You just have to stop letting it make every decision.

And you don’t have to do it alone.

We are accepting new clients at both in person in Airdrie and across Alberta virtually. Book your free meet and greet and the link in bio or by visiting www.commonthreadpsychology.com for more information.

**This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Content shared here is not therapy, does not constitute professional advice, and should not be used as a substitute for mental health treatment. For personalized support, please consult a licensed therapist**

| mental health support | therapy | anxiety | trauma | depression | relationships | core beliefs | cbt | act | trauma informed therapy |

02/20/2026

Terrifying, am I right? 🕷️

**This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Content shared here is not therapy, does not constitute professional advice, and should not be used as a substitute for mental health treatment. For personalized support, please consult a licensed therapist**

| therapy | anxiety | avoidance | mental health | acceptance and commitment therapy |

02/18/2026

When people come to therapy and say they feel “stuck”, “unmotivated”, or “lost”…it’s most often due to a misalignment of values. Somewhere along the line they drifted away from being the person they truly want to be or building the life they really want to live.

That’s okay! It happens. And we can get back on track.

Start by asking yourself these 3 questions, and let me know in the comments - did they help you uncover any new (or old!) values?

**This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Content shared here is not therapy, does not constitute professional advice, and should not be used as a substitute for mental health treatment. For personalized support, please consult a licensed therapist**

| therapy | mental health | anxiety | trauma | relationships | depression | acceptance and commitment therapy |

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Airdrie, AB

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+15877408023

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http://commonthreadpsychology.com/

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