02/27/2026
Iโm so grateful for Kassandra Villarreal and her vision for Heart-Inspired Healing Services! Thank you for welcoming me to the team! Iโm glad to be a part of this amazing community! ๐๐๐พ๐
Hey, yโall! ๐๐พ
I want to share a little about who I am โ and why I do this work.
Iโm Dr. Renita L. Newton a.k.a. ๐๐ซ. ๐๐๐. Iโm 34 years old, and I am a native of Louisiana who now has the privilege of calling Texasโspecifically the beautiful city of Corpus Christiโhome.
But long before my achievements, I was a little girl carrying more than she should have. Throughout much of my childhood, adolescence, and young adult life, I experienced extensive trauma, controlling relationships, emotional and psychological abuse, and neglect. Those experiences could have easily defined me or broken me. Instead, they became the soil from which my healing journey and my calling began to bloom .
Today, I am very blessed to be in what I call my ๐ก๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐โa season of becoming the best version of myself, not in spite of my story, but because of it. I am grateful that I now get to walk alongside others on their healing journeys, holding space for them in ways I once needed someone to hold space for me.
๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ?
I lost my mother at the age of 14. Even before her passing, our relationship was complicated. She worked a lot and, in many ways, felt emotionally distant and unaffectionate toward me. I specifically remember one instance where I went to her for a hug and she pushed me away. That is a core memory that still hurts me to this day.
When my mother passed, I was still just a child, yet life required me to grow up overnight. My father was incarcerated for most of my life and later passed away during COVID. With both parents absent in different ways, I found myself navigating grief, confusion, and responsibility at a very young age. At 15 years old, I began working to help support myself and my siblings. I often carried the weight of trying to figure things out for all of us. I was just a teenager and a high school student, lost, confused, afraid. And at that point, I was just trying to survive.
My mother wound showed up as the experience of not feeling nurtured, comforted, or emotionally safe. It left me confused about what love truly looked like. I carried guilt and shame. I questioned my worth. I longed to be chosen, protected, and cared for. It left me in survival mode for much of my life. And stillโฆ I kept moving forward.
As I grew older, I began healing. I started learning about self-forgiveness. I started finding pieces of the love I needed in mentors, sister-friends, and women who would become my chosen family. I did the hard inner work. Iโve gone into the abyss of my story. Iโve come face to face with the trauma and guilt and shame. I learned how to mother myself. I learned that I was never unworthy โ I was simply navigating unmet needs and deep unhealed pain.
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That is why I am part of this healing collective. Not for applause. Not for visibility. But because I know what it feels like to carry wounds quietly. I know what it feels like to be strong and exhausted at the same time. I know what it feels like to long for a safe community.
I joined because healing is not meant to be done alone. I joined because women deserve spaces where they are nurtured, seen, and supported. I joined because my story is not just about survival โ itโs about purpose and reclamation.
๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค. ๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐. ๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ.
If you see yourself anywhere in my story, know this:
โค๏ธโ๐ฉนYou are not too broken.
โค๏ธโ๐ฉนYou are not too late.
โค๏ธโ๐ฉนYou are not alone.
โค๏ธโ๐ฉนYou are worthy. You are loved. And your healing matters.
Peace & Blessings,
Dr. Ree ๐ค
