Notes from Within:
REFLECTIONS ON HEALING, SPIRIT, AND THE BODY
Where There Is Hope, There Is Healing: My Journey With “Narcolepsy”
For years, Mallory Tedrick believed her extreme exhaustion was narcolepsy. But after countless sleep studies and treatments that didn’t work, she began to see a different pattern. In this personal story, she shares how trauma, nervous system shutdown, and deep sensitivity shaped her relationship with sleep and how learning to listen to her body changed everything.
Why Rest Feels So Hard: It’s Not You… It’s Your Nervous System (and Our Culture)
Rest doesn’t feel hard because you’re doing it wrong. For many people, slowing down activates anxiety, tension, or restlessness because the nervous system never learned that rest was safe. In a culture that rewards urgency and constant stimulation, choosing stillness can feel unfamiliar — and even threatening.
How I REALLY feel about the word Healing
We’re often told that healing is something we arrive at. A place we reach once we’ve “done the work,” moved through the pain, and left the hard stuff behind.
But I don’t believe we can be healed—not in the clean, final way that word suggests.