Galia Collaborative

03/09/2026

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03/08/2026

They’re here! 🩵💫🫶 We are gathering once again in intimate virtual circles to support you in some of the most challenging (and most growthful) seasons of life. These are carefully curated experiences to offer you not just information, but practical support and connection for your real life.

03/08/2026

As therapists, we’re often trained first in language: interpretation, reflection, insight, explanation. Those are powerful tools.

But many emotional wounds were formed before language — in moments of fear, disconnection, or overwhelm.

Healing those wounds often requires engaging emotional experience and the body, not just the story we tell about them.

For more on how we need to engage BOTH halves our brain in the therapy process, check out the essay.

03/06/2026

While most women technically have “free time”— it arrives in tiny, scattered fragments that never quite add up to the space needed to create, think, or breathe. In this essay, we explore the idea of “time confetti”—the way modern life shreds our attention and why meaningful work, creativity, and connection require something different: flow.

A close friend of mine sent me a text a few weeks back that asked me a sincere question. Like me, she’s a writer, and like me, it’s not her ... Read more

03/05/2026

Modern healthcare often fragments us into parts—but real healing asks us to come back together. Jen Milau, APRN, PMHNP-BC, explores the promise of integrative care and the powerful shift that happens when we treat the whole human being, not just the diagnosis.

When I faced my own life-threatening illnesses, I was profoundly grateful for the gifts of modern medicine. Without it, I can say with confidence that I wouldn’t be here today. With its strengths in evidence-based care, advanced technologies, and specialized disciplines, our conventional healthcar...

03/04/2026

It's one of our greatest self-delusions that we believe we know how we would react to a particular kind of pain or fear or uncertainty. And coming to grips with this is one of the most transformative turns toward curiosity, empathy, and better relationships we can have.

03/03/2026

Fear isn’t just in their minds — it’s in their bodies, and kids need more than quick reassurances to truly establish safety.

Galia's Michelle Piven, LISW, dives into practical ways to help children process scary experiences and grow emotional strength, one moment at a time.

Learn how to help children regulate emotions by validating their experience and making meaning of scary or overwhelming moments.

03/02/2026

And here we are 🩵

02/25/2026

This one is for those navigating the special hell that is infertility.

One more note: if you find yourself asking your partner to get support together and they decline, please go ahead and do it on your own. That dynamic will be something to work through and definitely requires another layer of support.

02/24/2026

Grounding practices may not eliminate stress, anxiety, or difficult emotions. But they can help you return to yourself—even briefly. Sometimes that's long enough to see things more clearly or make better decisions.

Galia therapist, Georgina Chávez, shares five practical tools for helping us ground in times of uncertainty and overwhelm.

Practical grounding exercises to regulate your nervous system, reduce anxiety, and manage overwhelm throughout your day.

02/23/2026

If furniture rearranging was an Olympic sport ⛷️

02/22/2026

We’re hard to satisfy for very long, even in our own self-development. But that’s okay, because being done isn’t really the point. Our work is to keep expanding our capacity to meet the moments where we find ourselves.