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Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters isn’t just a fantasy about idols and demons—it’s a viral allegory for mental health, trauma healing, and shame recovery. Through Rumi’s hidden “patterns” and Jinu’s struggle between grandiosity and guilt, the film mirrors real-world psychology: how avoidance feeds anxiety, how connection transforms pain, and how music becomes medicine for the nervous system. Drawing on current research in depression, anxiety, and men’s mental health, LMFT Daniell

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There’s a new kind of hot guy this summer—and he’s not just shirtless at the beach. He’s in therapy, drinking an iced oat latte, saying things like, “I’ve been working on my attachment style.”

Apple TV’s Severance is a haunting metaphor for trauma, dissociation, and emotional repression. Learn how Internal Family Systems and attachment theory offer a path toward integration, healing — and connection.

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