by Katy Wagner | Jul 24, 2026 | Art Psychotherapy, Grief & Loss, Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Processing
A reflection on tears, the nervous system, and the quiet medicine the body carries inside. This is an invitation to notice what your tears — and your not-tears — may already be telling you. Aloe vera carries its medicine inside the leaf. You don’t see it until...
by Katy Wagner | Apr 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
Adoptees are adoptees first, and adoption belongs in the first frame of understanding. That is not a sentimental statement. It is an interpretive one. Adoption may shape meaning, identity, belonging, grief, ambiguity, comparison, family meaning, regulation,...
by Katy Wagner | Feb 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
When an adoptee begins therapy, it doesn’t just activate the adoptee’s story. It can activate the parents’ story too. Adoption Realities: Therapy signals that something is hard. Even if it’s preventative. Even if it’s growth-oriented. Even if it’s healthy. For some...
by Katy Wagner | Jan 27, 2026 | Over Achiever, Uncategorized
The you that lives beyond the sun We say “good grief” when we’re irritated.When we’re overwhelmed.When something feels like too much. It’s a dismissal. A shorthand. A way to move past what we don’t want to stay with. That’s fitting—because that’s exactly how my...
by Katy Wagner | Jan 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Snowflakes, Meaning, and the Space Between Grief does not always arrive with intensity or urgency. Often, it enters quietly. It settles into the spaces where something once existed—or where something was expected to be. The loss of a person, a relationship, a role, a...
