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Psychiatry, Story, and Soulwork
When Success Hurts: How Trauma Hides Behind Overachievement and Insomnia in Bicultural High-Performers
You’re successful. So why can’t you sleep?⠀⠀ If you grew up between cultures, you probably learned to adapt. To perform. To outwork fear.⠀ But that 3am restlessness? That “never enough” loop in your h... ...more
Adult Mental Health
October 31, 2025•4 min read
Migration Stress and the Immigrant Psyche
Migration isn’t just about paperwork and flights. It’s about the invisible grief that follows you, even after the bags are unpacked. You may have chosen to leave, but even chosen departures come with ... ...more
Adult Mental Health ,Child and Adolescents Mental Health
September 02, 2025•4 min read
The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies
Discover how ancestral trauma lives in the body through epigenetics and inherited nervous system responses—and how culturally attuned psychiatry can help us heal what our grandmothers were never allow... ...more
Adult Mental Health ,Child and Adolescents Mental Health
August 05, 2025•4 min read
The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche
Explore how migration, intergenerational trauma, and cultural identity shape the psyche. A soulful, psychiatric reflection on the stories we carry across oceans—and how they impact mental health. ...more
Adult Mental Health
July 24, 2025•3 min read
Healing Must Go Beyond the Script
Traditional psychiatry, for all its scientific brilliance, often misses the heart. It forgets that people aren’t problems to fix—they are stories to be heard, souls longing to heal. ...more
Adult Mental Health ,PMHNP School
July 21, 2025•3 min read
What Does It Mean to Be Seen?
Being seen isn’t about attention. It’s about presence. It’s about feeling known in your mess and your magic. In psychiatry, we take histories. But we often miss the soul. What if healing started with ... ...more
Adult Mental Health ,PMHNP School
July 13, 2025•2 min read
Meet the author
I’m Patria Alexander, PMHNP-BC
I’m an integrative psychiatric nurse practitioner who believes your mental health care should honor you, your story, your culture, your creativity, and the experiences that have shaped who you are. In our work together, we’ll move beyond symptoms to help you reconnect with your identity through narrative, ritual, and visual reflection, so your healing feels personal and lasting.
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