Yurino Hisamori

We’ve all probably heard of two of the four stress responses; fight  or flight —the body’s instinctive reactions to danger. But have you ever been in a situation where your body seems to betray you instead?  Maybe, you freeze up during a presentation, your mind going blank. Or perhaps, in a simple interaction with a teacher, you try to smile, but your face feels tense—and you’re now stuck with an award smile plastered on your face, eye twitching. That’s your nervous system in dysregulation....

Why does someone with anorexia for years begin binging one day? Then, almost overnight, abscond into a bulimia frenzy? For decades,...

Think back to eighth grade summer camp—oh how we reminisced for earlier times, shared laughters, traded names of our crushes under the...