The Head Trash Blog
Trauma vs PTSD: What’s the Difference?
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Trauma vs PTSD is one of those distinctions that gets blurred in everyday conversation. People say "I have trauma from that" when they...
Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. The four trauma responses are fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. They're the nervous system's automatic survival strategies - the default...
3 Signs You Need Inherited Healing: In-Utero, Ancestral and Past-Life Patterns
Sometimes the emotional weight you carry doesn't start with you. It came from your family line, from the womb, or - if you're open to it - from a life before this one. And no amount of journaling, reframing, or positive thinking will shift it, because it wasn't formed...
Unhealed Trauma at Work: Why You Hit Ceilings
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. You don't think trauma belongs in a conversation about your job, your business, your professional life. The unhealed bits feel like they...
Complex Trauma (CPTSD): The Wound Architecture
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Complex trauma is what gets named when no single event explains the damage. Standard PTSD has a moment you can point to. Complex trauma...
Why Some Women Reject Their Feminine (And the Wounds Underneath)
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method. Method developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Some women reject their feminine to stay safe. For most of my adult life, I was one of them. People called me an alpha female and...
Mental fitness for founders
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method. Method developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. The ceiling you keep hitting isn't about strategy. You've sensed this for a while, even if you haven't said it out loud yet. The...
Mental Fitness vs Mindfulness: Strong vs Calm
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Mental fitness vs mindfulness: another pair of phrases that get treated as the same thing when they aren't. The wellness industry has...
How Trauma Lives in the Body (Not the Mind)
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Most of us were taught that trauma is a mind problem. Something happened, you remember it, the memory is the problem, talk about the...
Mental fitness vs mental health
By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method. Method developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Mental fitness vs mental health: the two phrases get used as though they mean the same thing, and most of the time nobody pulls...