Darkness to Dialogue: Living Well With Mental Illness

🔍 What It  Really  Takes to Rewrite Patterns After Trauma, Diagnosis, or Burnout 🕓  Estimated Read Time: 6 minutes 🧠 Article Summary Reconditioning isn’t just about changing behaviors; it’s about healing your nervous system, rewiring automatic thoughts, and creating real, embodied change.  This post explores what reconditioning actually means and why it’s an essential (and often overlooked) part of sustainable mental health recovery. ✨ From Reaction to Resilience: How I Began to Recondition My Mind There was a time in my recovery when I genuinely believed I was broken, because I kept reacting the same way to familiar triggers, even after I had “done the work.” Journaling, reflecting, celebrating small wins... none of it seemed to stop the return of survival-mode reactions when I felt abandoned or unseen. But what I’ve since learned is this: I wasn’t broken, I was conditioned. And what I needed wasn’t just more insight. I needed  reconditioning . Reconditionin...