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I found a photo that stopped me cold

Randi Corrigan middle school yearbook photo. The girl this article is about I had a rough weekend. The kind where getting out of bed feels impossible, your phone becomes a lifeline, and the harshest voice in your head won't stop screaming at you to get up and do something. I'm a therapist. I know better. And I still couldn't stop it. So I did what I do? I got curious. I started asking that voice where she came from. She took me all the way back to a condo I grew up in. My mother's addiction....

Hi Reader , I’ve been wanting to create something more than a newsletter - a real space for connection, support, and honest conversation. So I started a free Facebook community: Worthy & Whole: A Community for Women Rebuilding Self-Worth This is for women who are done chasing people who can’t meet them halfway, ready to rebuild their sense of self-worth, or quietly wondering if it’s time to leave a relationship that isn’t serving them. Inside, I’ll be sharing weekly reflections, tools, and...

Hi Reader Wow. I am so excited by how many of you have reached out already, hearing how much you’re enjoying the Self-Worth Reset Workbook genuinely warms my heart. Knowing I’ve reached so many lovely women, all learning to love themselves a little harder, is exactly what this was supposed to be about. Isn’t that what life should be all about? Here’s the thing though - it looks like some of you never actually got your hands on the workbook itself. It might’ve gotten buried, lost in a...

Not literally. But hear me out. Most of us learned our worth the way we learned to spell - from someone else, early, and without much say in the matter. A parent's approval. A grade. A comment that stuck longer than it had any right to. Somewhere along the way, the definition of you got written by people who were still figuring themselves out. And now you carry it around like it's official. Here's the thing about self-worth that nobody puts on a motivational poster: it's not something you...

Hey Reader , Okay, I'll be honest - it's been a minute, and I've been thinking about you. We're in that in-between season right now. Spring is winding down, summer is almost here, and there's this weird energy in the air where everything feels like it should be fresh and new… but for a lot of us, the same old stuff is still sitting right there waiting. So I wanted to pop in, check in, and just ask: How are you doing? Like, really? Since you signed up for the Self Worth Reset Journal, I'm...

Hi Reader , You joined the waitlist for No More Settling - and I want you to know, I haven't forgotten about you. I've been building this program with real intention because I know the women it's for. I sat across from them in my therapy office for years. Brilliant, high-achieving, self-aware, and still finding themselves overgiving, overanalyzing, and waiting to be chosen by men who couldn't fully show up. Not because they didn't know better. Because the pattern runs deeper than strategy. No...

EMDR therapy

Hi Reader , I've been thinking about you — yes, you specifically — and wanted to reach out personally. You signed up a little while ago, and I realize I never properly introduced myself or told you more about what I do and how I might be able to help. I'm Randi, a therapist specializing in EMDR therapy, working virtually with clients in New York and Connecticut. So what is EMDR? EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process...

"You are not the version of yourself who tolerated what you should not have. You are the woman on the other side of it" Hey Reader, Happy Monday, love. I want to start your week with something important. A lot of us are carrying something we don't talk about out loud. The relationship we stayed in way too long. The person we loved who didn't love us back the right way. The moments we looked the other way when someone treated us like we were less than we deserved. The years we spent making...

Hi Reader I want to talk about something I see constantly in my work with women, and something I think most of us are too uncomfortable to say out loud. We don't choose unavailable men because we love drama. We choose them because on some level, we don't believe we deserve anything better. The good guy shows up - and we run. The toxic one hurts us - and we stay. And we tell ourselves it's about chemistry, or bad luck, or that all the good men are taken. But that's not what's really going on....

Hi Reader, I’m hosting a live workshop this Monday called: Why You Keep Chasing Emotionally Unavailable Men — And The Shift That Changes Everything And if you’ve been feeling stuck in painful relationship patterns, it’s not too late to join us. This workshop is for women who: • overgive in relationships • feel anxious waiting to be chosen • confuse inconsistency with chemistry • or keep ending up with emotionally unavailable partners We’re going deeper than dating advice. We’ll be exploring:...