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On this page, I will be sharing some information, tools, and tidbits from my psychotherapy work with the hopes of enhancing your wellness goals! I know what it feels like to be different and look different and my hope is that this page builds a community for all, especially for those who feel out of place.

11/21/2025

Hey, 🤷🏽‍♀️, contrary to popular belief, marriage doesn’t break friendships, it actually ONLY reveals them.

You start to see who had the capacity to grow with you and who was already stepping back long before anything changed.

And sometimes that clarity is painful 😣, believe me I know, but it’s also soooo necessary.

It’s also a moment to ask yourself who you were in that season, and who you’re becoming now.

For therapy support,
Newsletter link in bio.

11/19/2025

Yeah. I know. It’s a toughy this one. But eh, as I grow older and grow more comfortable in my friendships I’m realizing, hard times, tough times, happen in even the BESSSST and most healthiest of friendships.

But what makes your friendship special, and the kind that is able to weather the storm in a healthy way? ..is how you problem solve with love, how you listen with love, how you hold space with love. This. All of this. This work.

therapy support |
newsletter of feelings | link in bio

11/13/2025

I say this in therapy all the time: 📣 Friendship isn’t about who’s always around, that CANNOT be the way you measure quality friends.

At its core, it’s about who helps you return to yourself.
Hey? You’ll lose people when you start healing. You just do. It happens.

But what you’ll gain are relationships that finally feel peaceful, and legit not forced or performative by way of convenience.

💭 Save this for the days you start confusing comfort with connection.

also?

newsletter of hard truths | link in bio
therapy support |

11/12/2025

What I love about the work I do is how much of me is constantly in a position of reflection ALL THE TIME.

Being a social worker and working in capacities of a therapist, you realize … you cannot just sit with someone in their discomfort if you cannot sit in the discomfort of your own.

That this work requires a commitment to getting to know yourself everyday, and making sense of who you are, even the parts hard to learn and love sometimes.

Newsletter of feelings | link in bio
Therapy supports |

11/10/2025

Before I delete from my phone sharing this with all of you in hopes someone finds it uplifting, ♥️, let me know below which slide you love most.

swimsuit |
newsletter of feelings | link in bio
therapy support |

11/10/2025

PHOTO DUMP INCOMING ‼️

Sharing some favourites that have been keeping me STRONG, this week ♥️, let me know below which slide you loved best!

swimsuit: 🩱
therapy support: ✨
therapy emails and feelings: newsletter, link in bio ♥️

11/07/2025

📣‼️ FRIENDSHIP IS A MUSCLE AND IT COMES AT THE COST OF COMFORT.

Friday’s tough truth. 👀.

therapy support |
newsletter for more like this | link in bio

11/06/2025

BOOKS I READ THAT I LOVE 😭♥️, of 2025, and only one of them am I still reading but so far enjoy so much.

Add below those you love, and let me know if any of them were ones you read too!

newsletter where I talk about feelings | link in bio
therapy support |

11/05/2025

I went for a walk with my husband, and we were just reflecting, where it’s like ..okay, so it’s the end of the year… how are we feeling? what have we learned? what’s been sitting heavy or clear for us?

And as I started sharing some of these thoughts out loud,
he looked at me and said, “You need to share this, people will relate to that.”😭

So here I am, doing that. ( ♥️ )
Sharing what I know so many of us have been feeling quietly.

Save this.
Read it again when you start to doubt yourself. 🤍

newsletter for more like this | link in bio
therapy support | link in bio

11/04/2025

Arrested development is one of the most misunderstood trauma responses. ESPECIALLY for BIPOC communities.

It’s always confused as a lack of willpower, or even determination.

What I wish more people understood about it is, it’s what happens when your emotional growth ( maaaannny of us let’s be real 👀) was interrupted by pain you didn’t have the tools to process.

And I have always said it here ☝🏾, HEALING IS NOT LINEAR!

Hey? Some parts of you are still learning what safety, ( self compassion ! ) trust, and even whatlove feel like 🤷🏽‍♀️ and that’s okay.

You’re not behind. You are NOT! You’re rebuilding what should’ve always been nurtured, that no one gave you the support to tend to.

Save this for when you’re too hard on yourself for not being “further ahead.” You’re growing now, and that counts. ♥️

therapy support |
newsletter with more conversation like this | link in bio

11/03/2025

Given what I know today, as someone who is a marital counsellor, a wife, a friend, and in community having watched people get married, I always think, now given everything, what would I tell someone before embarking on this journey?

Yeah, it’s these slides. All of them; and more come up but I want to save that for the newsletter ( link in bio, if you haven’t signed up 💌 ) !

SHARE YOUR GEMS OF WISDOM below 👇🏽 you never know who’ll benefit.

therapy support |

10/27/2025

Nobody talks enough about how childhood neglect rewires your love template.

You grow up chasing emotional highs because that’s the only kind of “attention” your nervous system recognizes. You crave the people who activate your wounds, not because you want pain, but because your body confuses it with love.

The healing isn’t in finding a different person.
It’s in becoming a different version of you, one who no longer has to imagine love, because you’ve learned to give it to yourself first.

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therapy supports |

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