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Ritual Wellness ATX, 4131 Spicewood Springs Road, Austin, TX (2026)

02/20/2026

In moments like these, it’s hard not to feel the strain in our bodies and relationships.
Across the country, systems meant to protect people are breaking down—creating fear, instability, and exhaustion, especially for immigrant families and the communities who love them.
Here in Austin, this isn’t abstract. Our neighbors are experiencing:
• Increased immigration enforcement activity
• Families afraid to leave home, go to work, or send kids to school
• Community members unsure how to help without causing harm
What you can do to protect your neighbors:
🤍 Know your rights & share accurate information
– RAICES (Austin-based): legal support & emergency response
– American Gateways: immigration legal services
– Immigrant Legal Resource Center (TX): know-your-rights resources
🤍 Support local protection networks
– Austin Sanctuary Network (housing & accompaniment)
– Grassroots Leadership (ending detention & mass incarceration)
– Texas Civil Rights Project (Austin office)
🤍 Practice community care
– Don’t spread unverified reports or panic-based rumors
– Check in on neighbors who may be isolating
– Offer rides, childcare, meals, or simply presence—only if it’s welcomed
🤍 If you’re witnessing enforcement activity
– Do not interfere or escalate
– Document if you know how to do so safely and legally
– Connect with local rapid response networks rather than acting alone
For those directly impacted: you deserve safety, dignity, and care. If therapy feels out of reach right now, that makes sense. Survival comes first.
For those supporting others: pace yourself. Burnout helps no one. Regulation is not disengagement—it’s what allows us to stay human in inhumane systems.
Austin has a long history of showing up for one another. This moment is asking us to do that again—steadily, thoughtfully, and together.
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02/13/2026

In All About Love, bell hooks reminds us that love is not just a feeling—it’s a practice. A practice rooted in care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge.
We’re often told that we must “love ourselves first” before we can love others. But hooks offers a more compassionate truth: self-love and love for others are deeply connected and often learned together. Many people learn how to love themselves through being loved—through safe relationships that model care, boundaries, and mutual respect.
💞 You don’t have to be “fully healed” to be worthy of love.
💞 You can grow self-love while in relationship with others.
💞 Healthy love helps us build a healthier relationship with ourselves.
This Valentine’s Day, we invite you to expand the definition of love—beyond romance—to include self-compassion, community, boundaries, and emotional honesty. Love is something we practice, every day.

02/06/2026

🌐💙 Safer Internet Day 💙🌐

The internet can be a powerful place for connection, learning, and self-expression—but it can also impact our mental health in ways we don’t always see.

We’re seeing more young people affected by what’s often called “The Anxious Generation”—a term used to describe kids and teens growing up with constant online access, social media pressure, comparison culture, cyberbullying, and reduced real-world connection. This environment can increase anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and difficulty coping with stress.

🧠 How we can help support mental health online:
• Encourage healthy screen boundaries and offline balance
• Talk openly about emotions, online experiences, and social media pressures
• Model mindful tech use
• Teach critical thinking around comparison and curated content
• Prioritize connection, play, and rest

On Safer Internet Day, let’s commit to creating digital spaces that support emotional wellbeing—and to protecting the mental health of the next generation, both online and offline. 💛

02/04/2026

As we prepare for Black History Month, we recognize the importance of honoring Black history while also restoring and uplifting resources that have too often been stripped away. Preserving truth, culture, and lived experience is an essential part of collective healing.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture plays a vital role in this work by safeguarding stories, artifacts, and histories that deepen understanding, resilience, and connection across generations.
We also want to highlight Therapy for Black Girls, a powerful mental health resource dedicated to supporting the emotional well-being of Black women and girls. Through culturally responsive education, community, and access to affirming therapists, Therapy for Black Girls helps normalize care and create pathways toward healing. https://therapyforblackgirls.com
This Black History Month, we encourage reflection, learning, and intentional support of resources that honor Black experiences—past, present, and future.

01/23/2026

This Mental Wellness Month, we invite you to pause and reflect on an important question: What does it truly mean to be healthy—now and in the years to come?
Health is not a fixed destination. It evolves as we move through different seasons of life. What “being healthy” looks like today may be very different from what it looks like in the future—and that’s okay. Holistic mental wellness honors the whole person: mind, body, emotions, relationships, and sense of purpose, across every age and stage.
Today, health might mean learning to manage stress, set boundaries, and care for your emotional needs while balancing work, family, and daily demands. In the future, health may look like maintaining cognitive flexibility, emotional resilience, meaningful connections, and self-compassion as life changes. Healthy aging isn’t about perfection or avoiding challenges—it’s about adaptability, awareness, and support.
Therapy can be a powerful part of this journey. It helps build skills that support not just present well-being, but long-term mental and emotional health—tools you can carry with you as you grow, age, and evolve.
This month, we encourage you to think holistically:
How are you caring for your mental wellness today?
What habits, supports, and mindsets are you building for your future self?
Mental wellness is an investment across a lifetime. Wherever you are on your journey, support is available—and growth is always possible.

01/16/2026

If Dr. King’s work speaks to our present, then so does our responsibility—especially in how we understand healing.
Dr. King named how racism, poverty, and violence wear people down over time. Today, we see this show up in therapy as:
• Chronic anxiety rooted in feeling unsafe
• Depression shaped by limited access to resources
• Exhaustion from navigating workplaces, schools, and systems not designed for equity
• Hypervigilance passed through generations
• Grief that has never been publicly acknowledged
These are not individual shortcomings.
They are nervous system responses to ongoing injustice.

Honoring Dr. King today means taking his work seriously in the present tense. It means supporting mental health care that recognizes context, power, and history—not just symptoms.
Healing is not about adapting better to harm.
It’s about creating conditions where wholeness is possible.
Dr. King’s legacy reminds us: tending to our mental health, together, is part of the work of justice.
In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King also warned that one of the greatest obstacles to justice was not overt hatred, but the “White Moderate”—those who valued comfort, order, and “timing” over justice itself.
He cautioned against passive citizenship that calls for patience while harm continues, and against neutrality that ultimately sides with the status quo. His words remind us that silence, delay, and disengagement are not neutral acts—they have consequences.
This warning is not historical.
It speaks directly to our present moment.

Let us move forward with the understanding that healing comes from acknowledgment and action above all else.

Check out the The King Center for more ways to get involved. https://thekingcenter.org/

01/09/2026

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is often spoken about as history—
as if it belongs to another era, another generation, another struggle.
But the realities he named are not ancient.
They are present in our bodies, our nervous systems, our communities.
Dr. King spoke openly about:
• Racial violence and state-sanctioned harm
• Economic injustice and poverty
• The psychological toll of oppression
• Moral injury created by systems that deny dignity
These were not abstract ideas.
They were lived experiences—then and now.
Many of the stressors our clients bring into therapy today are shaped by the same systems Dr. King challenged: racism, inequity, disenfranchisement, and chronic exposure to injustice. The emotional and intergenerational impact of these systems is real, ongoing, and worthy of care.
Honoring Dr. King means more than remembering his words.
It means recognizing that the work of healing and justice is unfinished—and deeply connected to mental health.
In Part 2, we’ll reflect on what this means for healing, resistance, and collective care today.

01/02/2026

This year, we’re decolonizing the idea of New Year’s resolutions.
No more fixing, forcing, or proving your worth through productivity.
Colonial culture tells us:
• You must constantly improve
• Rest must be earned
• Your value is measured by output
We’re choosing something different.
🌿 Instead of resolutions, we invite intentions rooted in care:
• Listening to your body
• Honoring rest without guilt
• Releasing timelines that were never yours
• Choosing sustainability over burnout
• Making room for joy, grief, and softness
Growth doesn’t have to be loud or linear.
Healing doesn’t require becoming someone new.
As we move into this year, may your focus be remembering who you are, not reshaping yourself to fit systems that were never built with you in mind.
💛 What intention are you carrying into this year?
Read More about it on our blog! https://www.ritualwellnessatx.com/blog/new-habits-new-year

12/26/2025

At the close of 2025, we wanted to take a look back and recognize what got us through the tough parts of the year.

Lilly- For me personally, it was the opportunity to build my own community and watch as the larger communities I am a part of many small groups that I’ve gotten the chance to watch flourish even against hardships.The TTRPG community is thriving, the q***r community is surviving, and people around me are helping each other in dark times.

Naqsh
- radical bookstores that also function as therapy
- acts of kindness towards others and strangers
- being silly and reactivating my inner child
- creating several 'aspirations and dreams' collages
- giving up denim jeans (for the most part)
- abolishing the concept of "replying instantly" to texts
- escaping reality with books
- making my living room into a mini jungle

12/19/2025

This season holds a beautiful tapestry of traditions from cultures and faiths around the world. At Ritual Wellness ATX, we honor the diversity of winter holidays and the many ways people find meaning, connection, and light during this time of year.
Throughout December, communities celebrate in ways that reflect resilience, joy, ancestry, and spiritual grounding, including:
❄️ Winter Solstice – welcoming the turning point toward longer days and the symbolism of returning light.
🌟 Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe – honoring faith, cultural identity, and devotion within many Mexican and Mexican-American communities.
🕯️ Hanukkah – celebrating perseverance, hope, and the miracle of light.
🌲 Yule – marking the rebirth of the sun and embracing nature, reflection, and renewal.
🖤❤️💚 Kwanzaa – uplifting African heritage, community, self-determination, and unity.
🔥 Zarathosht Diso – a Zoroastrian day of remembrance, reflection, and honoring the teachings of Zarathustra.
🎄 Christmas – celebrating togetherness, compassion, and the spirit of giving.
This season can be grounding, joyful, complicated, or tender—sometimes all at once. No matter what you celebrate or how you choose to spend this time, your traditions and your emotional experience matter.
We also know this list is not complete.
✨ If we missed your holiday or winter tradition, we’d love to learn from you—please share in the comments so we can continue to honor and uplift our community’s diversity.
May this season bring you moments of meaning, connection, and care—on your terms.

Photo Credits will be left in the comments!

12/12/2025

Today, we recognize Universal Human Rights Day—a reminder that every person, everywhere, is entitled to safety, dignity, and freedom simply by being human.
The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlines these fundamental rights, many of which directly shape our emotional and psychological well-being. Some of these include:
✨ The right to life, liberty, and personal security
✨ The right to be free from discrimination
✨ The right to privacy, autonomy, and bodily integrity
✨ The right to seek asylum and live without persecution
✨ The right to freedom of thought, expression, and belief
✨ The right to rest, leisure, and adequate living conditions
✨ The right to education and participation in community life
✨ The right to health and access to care — including mental health
As therapists, we honor these rights by creating a space where every person feels safe, validated, and empowered. Mental health work is deeply connected to human rights: healing is possible when dignity is protected, voices are respected, and communities uphold justice.
Today—and every day—we affirm our commitment to supporting each person’s right to live with freedom, worthiness, and humanity.
🌿 Your well-being is a right, not a privilege.

Photo Credits
https://princewilliamliving.com/universal-human-rights-day-celebrated-with-all-human-all-equal-theme/

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1028071

https://www.voanews.com/a/human-rights-day-stand-up-for-universal-rights/3630859.html

The flag photo was taken at the UN headquarters in New York City

12/05/2025

As the holidays approach, many of us feel the pressure to buy more, do more, and be more. Capitalism often tells us that love is measured in purchases and that joy comes wrapped in a box.

At Ritual Wellness ATX, we invite you to gently step back from those expectations and reconnect with what truly brings meaning this time of year. We want to take a moment to speak on what it looks like to decenter capitalism during the holidays.
• Honoring your emotional needs rather than overstretching your time, energy, or finances
• Prioritizing presence and experiences over presents
• Instead of gifts, create or make something for your loved ones with intention and thoughtfulness
• Creating rituals that feel grounding and authentic to you
• Respecting the diverse traditions, cultures, and celebrations within our communities
• Allowing yourself to celebrate—or not—in ways that align with your values

When we shift the focus inward and toward each other, the holiday spirit becomes less about consuming and more about connecting.

You deserve a season rooted in intention, compassion, and genuine belonging. Here’s to finding meaning in the moments—not the material.

Here are some resources for decentering capitalism this year.
https://rejectniche.substack.com/p/not-another-capitalist-christmas
https://www.cmosc.org/winter-celebrations-around-the-world/

https://www.crosswalk.com/family/marriage/engagement-newlyweds/how-to-combine-traditions-for-your-first-christmas-together.html

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