Let’s Talk Openly LLC

Let’s Talk Openly LLC Therapy services are available for individuals, couples, families, and groups. Please visit https://letstalkopenly.com for more information.

I am accepting Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, Optum, Oscar Health, and Oxford insurance. Please text me your name, email, and telephone number to verify your insurance. Once your insurance is verified, a link to access your client portal will be sent to your email address.

12/07/2025

One sentence to interrupt the spiral:
“I’m having the thought that…”
It creates space and the fear loses power.

12/07/2025

Thought spiral vs. reality check
Your brain is trying to protect you but sometimes it mistakes worry for truth.
Slow down the fear story and come back to what you actually know right now.
Your thoughts aren’t facts.

12/07/2025

3 signs your emotions react first when you’re triggered.
Your feelings aren’t random, they’re signaling safety needs.
Awareness helps you interrupt the cycle sooner.

12/07/2025

This is the part I get especially passionate about
Your nervous system doesn’t just shape stress…
It shapes connection, desire, and intimacy.
Because you can’t be in fight-or-flight
and in pleasure at the same time.
When the body feels threatened, even a little, desire drops, shutdown happens, and it’s hard to feel close.
But when the body feels safe…
connection deepens, vulnerability feels possible,
and pleasure becomes accessible again.

Here’s Video 7:
Why This Matters for Sexual Connection
Safety fuels intimacy.

12/07/2025

You’ve learned your starting point…
You’ve practiced soothing your body, emotions, and thoughts…
Now it’s time to see what a regulated sequence actually looks like.
When your nervous system feels safe, the cycle becomes:
Calm body → softer emotions → clearer thoughts
This is the direction we’re building toward, one small shift at a time.

Here’s Video 6:
What a Healthy Sequence Looks Like
Your system can learn a new pattern.

12/07/2025

For some of us…
the mind fires first.
The “What if…?” spiral.
The fear story that jumps to the worst case.
When thoughts take off at full speed, the body and emotions follow, fast.
So the most powerful way to interrupt the cycle is to slow the thought and bring it back to the present moment.

Here’s Video 5:
Soothe Your Thoughts First
One reframe that helps bring your nervous system back to safety.

12/07/2025

We’ve talked about how the body can trigger the entire cycle…
But for many people, the emotion hits first.
Fast. Intense. Overwhelming.
That emotional wave can push you into shutdown or reactiveness before a thought even forms.
So today, we focus on calming the feeling first.
Naming. Validating. Softening.

Here’s Video 4:
Soothe Your Emotions First
Small shifts can change the entire outcome.

12/07/2025

We’ve mapped the trigger sequence…
We’ve found where YOUR reaction begins…
Now, let’s start interrupting the cycle.
If your body reacts first when you’re triggered: tight chest, racing heart, stomach drop and the rest of your system follows.
So the fastest way to calm the whole trigger response
is to calm the body first.

Here’s Video 3:
Soothe Your Body First
Simple tools you can use anywhere.

12/07/2025

If you watched the first video in this Trigger Series, you learned that triggers follow a pattern in the body, emotions, and thoughts.
Now let’s take the next step:
How do YOU know where your reaction starts?

Here’s Video 2: Find Your Starting Point

12/07/2025

I’ve noticed that so many of my conversations with clients come back to one thing:
awareness of what’s happening inside when a trigger hits.
We often don’t realize whether our body, emotions, or thoughts react first and without that awareness, everything can feel overwhelming or “too much, too fast.”
To bring awareness, I created a video series to help you understand your order of operations when triggered, and how to interrupt that cycle sooner.

Here’s Video 1:
“Your Body Has an Order of Operations When You’re Triggered”

11/21/2025

Repair isn’t about avoiding conflict .... it’s about finding your way back to each other.
Most of the nervous system’s healing happens after the rupture, not before it.
When partners can slow down, communicate safety, and reconnect, attachment becomes stronger… not weaker.
If this is something you’re working on, therapy can help you build a different rhythm.

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