The Sassy Shrink

The Sassy Shrink The Sassy Shrink is an online therapy practice providing individual therapy to women with anxiety. We are woman therapists supporting women.

Our team of qualified and experienced professionals will assess your needs for overall wellness and work to support you on your journey to better health and mental well-being. We’ll help you be your best self in every aspect of your life. You can trust The Sassy Shrink therapists to dig in gently, listen to your fears, and show you how to live life more fully, more authentically, and more fulfille

d. Women today experience such heartache, trying to fulfill society's expectations and navigate constant barriers to success and growth. We are here and ready, supporting relationships, fostering self-love, enhancing careers, and healing the body. Choose your support, customize your wellness, create a life worthy of you. You don't have to do it alone.

See the difference? Guilt is about what you did. You stole money from Mom’s purse, for example. You cheated on your part...
06/09/2026

See the difference? 

Guilt is about what you did. You stole money from Mom’s purse, for example. You cheated on your partner. You made a move.

Shame is about who you are. You think you deserve punishment for bumping into a vase and breaking it. You feel shameful about your body size and believe you’re not worthy of romance. You didn’t “do” anything and yet you belief this harsh truth about you.

And when shame is in charge, your whole nervous system organizes around one job: don’t let anyone confirm it’s true. That would be a worst nightmare. Your wiring is desperate not to find out that this belief is true despite operating entirely like it is.

Confusing, right?

This week’s essay is about what that actually looks like in your body, your relationships, and the yes you say when you mean no.

Boogie over to Substack and give it a read.

Hey, people pleaser. You’re not a pushover. You do it because your nervous system learned that keeping the peace was the...
06/08/2026

Hey, people pleaser.

You’re not a pushover. You do it because your nervous system learned that keeping the peace was the only way to stay safe.

The shame underneath it is quieter than the behavior, and it’s running the whole show.

Check out The Heard Woman on Substack for more— link in bio.

06/06/2026

This week’s Homeplay is a breathing thing.

Daily for 30 seconds, 4x4 breath, 3 times through. How do ya like it?

She’s alive. You talk to her. And you wish she was different. It feels like mourning. That’s ambiguous grief, and it des...
06/04/2026

She’s alive. You talk to her. And you wish she was different. It feels like mourning. 

That’s ambiguous grief, and it deserves to be talked about. 

Boogie over to Substack on The Heard Woman and give it a read. Link in bio.

Anxiety. Over-apologizing. Mom stuff. The whole messy package. Boogie over to Substack and The Heard Woman for more. Lin...
06/02/2026

Anxiety. Over-apologizing. Mom stuff. The whole messy package. Boogie over to Substack and The Heard Woman for more. Link in bio 💟

Mom grief is next level painful. Whether she’s still here and disappointing. Whether she’s gone and complicated. Whether...
06/01/2026

Mom grief is next level painful. 

Whether she’s still here and disappointing. Whether she’s gone and complicated. Whether you’re still waiting for something she never gave you.

New Substack on The Heard Woman. Link in bio. 🤍

05/30/2026

This week’s assignment, should you choose to accept it:

Put your phone in another room for one hour. Not on do-not-disturb. Not face-down on the table. In another room.

Then notice what your hands do.

The reach is automatic. You will catch yourself reaching for nothing three or four times. Your hands have a habit your brain does not.

That’s the data.

You don’t have to do anything with the data. You are not fixing. You are collecting. This is what Homeplay is for. Noticing what your body does when you take one thing away.

If anything interesting comes up, report back. Or don’t. The assignment is the noticing.

For years you kept the peace. You softened your voice, swallowed the comment, made yourself smaller so nobody else had t...
05/29/2026

For years you kept the peace. You softened your voice, swallowed the comment, made yourself smaller so nobody else had to feel uncomfortable.

Now you’re angry, and you’re scared the anger means you’ve gone too far. You haven’t. The anger is the part of you that finally stopped agreeing to be ignored.

New on The Heard Woman: the angry stage of healing, and what’s waiting on the other side of it. Link in bio.

You open your eyes and your body is already screaming.Nothing has happened. The house is quiet. And your stomach is in k...
05/28/2026

You open your eyes and your body is already screaming.

Nothing has happened. The house is quiet. And your stomach is in knots, your thoughts are sprinting, your legs won’t settle.

Your nervous system thinks it found a threat. It didn’t. It’s running an old program on a safe morning.

Grounding is how you tell your body what’s actually true: you’re safe, right now.

Swipe for the game I teach my clients. Want to learn how to use it?

Reach out. I’ve got your back.

Summer in this part of the world has a specific tempo. The Shore. The pool clubs. The “what are we doing for the Fourth?...
05/27/2026

Summer in this part of the world has a specific tempo.

The Shore. The pool clubs. The “what are we doing for the Fourth?” texts that started in late May. The weekend invitations stacked through August.

You did not sign up for this pace. You inherited it.

You are allowed to take one weekend and do nothing.

You are allowed to say “we’re staying home that weekend” with no excuse attached.

You are allowed to want a summer that is not a calendar of obligations.

If you live in NJ or PA and you are already tired of summer plans you have not made yet, that is exactly the conversation I am built for.

Free consult in my bio.

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Bensalem, PA
19020

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