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You’re Not Too Sensitive
Your nervous system is overtaxed — and that changes how everything feels
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Inside the Nervous System
Jan 9
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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🧠 How to Help Your Nervous System After Bedtime
Dec 21, 2025
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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What Actually Makes Birth Feel Safe
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Ann Ledbetter
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The Highly Sensitive Parent
Dec 12, 2025
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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What Actually Makes Birth Feel Safe
A conversation with Ann Ledbetter on care, power, and the space between “pro” and “anti” hospital birth
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Ann Ledbetter
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Why Parenting Feels Like It Breaks You
A nervous-system explanation for why capacity shrinks under constant care
Jan 15
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
9
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Why Public Meltdowns Feel So Hard
It’s not just your child — it’s the nervous system under observation
Jan 12
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Why “doing everything right” doesn’t always calm a child
Some children can’t be regulated into calm — and that’s physiology, not failure
Jan 11
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Inside the Nervous System
A few recent pieces, gathered by theme:
Jan 9
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Emotional Regulation Mini-Series — Part 4: What Actually Helps (and What to Stop Expecting)
This is Part 4 of a short series on emotional regulation.
Jan 9
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Emotional Regulation Mini-Series — Part 3: Why Insight Isn’t Enough
This is Part 3 of a short series on emotional regulation.
Jan 9
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Emotional Regulation Mini-Series — Part 2: Why Parenting Overloads the Nervous System
This is Part 2 of a short series on emotional regulation.
Jan 8
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Emotional Regulation Mini-Series — Part 1: Capacity, Not Character
This is Part 1 of a short series on emotional regulation.
Jan 7
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Postpartum Distress Is Not Pathology
Why calm is not a prerequisite for care
Jan 6
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Mom Rage at Bedtime: Rupture and Repair
What’s normal, what helps, and what a healthy return can look like
Jan 5
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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Depression After Weaning
A collaborative piece integrating lived experience, clinical insight, and science
Jan 4
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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The Healed Enough Mother
, and
Christine Staricka
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Why Big Emotions Come Out in Safe Places 🌊
What meltdowns, tears, and bedtime breakdowns are really telling us as parents 👇
Dec 30, 2025
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Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD
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