Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken. It’s Communicating

Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken. It’s Communicating

Patria Alexander, PMHNP-BC
Published on: 06/01/2026

We live in a culture that rewards composure. So you learn to perform stability while your nervous system stays on high alert. You meet expectations. You carry the load. You keep moving. And your body keeps score.

Adult Mental Health
Migration Stress and the Immigrant Psyche

Migration Stress and the Immigrant Psyche

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 02/09/2025

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 heartache.

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies

The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 05/08/2025

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 allowed to speak.

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche

The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 24/07/2025

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.

Adult Mental Health