Dr. Daniela Krotzer

02/18/2026

Foods that support emotional regulation. 🍎🧠

What to eat when you’re feeling sad, stressed, tired, or unfocused.
Choose nutrients that support your brain, stabilize your mood, and give your mind the energy it needs to function at its best.

🌿Which of these foods do you reach for when you’re feeling off? Comment below.

01/11/2026

Simple tasks can take hours with ADHD due to issues with executive function, like poor working memory and time blindness, plus the brain's need for dopamine, leading to task paralysis, overthinking, or getting lost in hyperfocus, making boring activities incredibly difficult to start or finish. Strategies like breaking tasks down, using timers (like Pomodoro), and body doubling can help manage this by creating structure and motivation.

01/11/2026

Wisdom, new research suggests, is not about acquired knowledge. Instead, it's a quality that comes from within an individual. These 7 standards help us understand who has it and who might not.

01/10/2026

Childhood trauma does not just shape how you think. It affects your biology. It shapes how your nervous system fires, how your hormones move, and how your immune system responds.

That is why so many adults carry anxiety, exhaustion, gut issues, autoimmune symptoms, and chronic stress even years after the danger is gone.

Hope this helps 💚

01/02/2026

Falling, and staying, in love requires getting to know someone at a deeper level continuously over time. One reliable way to cultivate that kind of intimacy is asking questions like these.

01/01/2026

12/31/2025

12 Common Thinking Traps That Exhaust Your Mind

So many people blame themselves for “overthinking,” when in reality the mind is just trying its best to protect them in familiar (but unhelpful) ways. As a practicing counser, this is often the first relief I see on a client’s face: “Oh, it’s a pattern… not a personal failure.” Recognizing these thinking traps is a gentle first step toward change, not a reason to judge yourself.

↳ Mind reading: Assuming you know what others think about you.
↳ Negative focus: Only noticing what went wrong, never what went right.
↳ Catastrophizing: Jumping straight to the worst-case scenario.
↳ Labeling: Calling yourself names instead of noticing your feelings.
↳ Overgeneralizing, should-thinking, emotional reasoning, fortune-telling, personalization, owning the “truth,” just-world thinking, and control fallacy can all quietly shape how you see yourself and your life.

Cognitive distortions are inaccurate thinking. The goal is to have accurate, healthy thinking. Reach out if you need help with this.

12/31/2025

Especially after a busy fall and holiday season, January is a great time to put your self-care much higher up on your priorities list.

Our whole month of self-care ideas focuses on simple, relaxing, and enjoyable routines and activities you can try throughout the month. If there are any you particularly enjoy, you can think of ways to work them into your schedule on a more regular basis.

09/17/2025

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09/17/2025

What we already know from decades of research into adolescent social, emotional, and biological development provides a clear roadmap to identify the urgent risks posed by AI. It is critical that we act now to prioritize children's well-being.

Read the full testimony from APA Chief of Psychology Dr. Mitch Prinstein: https://at.apa.org/bdfe00