Stacey Brown & Associates, Counseling and Wellness

11/26/2025

I’m so very grateful to be a witness and a helper on your journey. It is an absolute treasure to watch you bloom as you recover, discover your soul’s path and bloom in such vivid colors on your healing journey.

Use your own personal gratitude practice every day as we close out this year.

Take time for yourself over the holiday and focus on what’s important for you. Be grateful for all that you have.

Breathe deeply and enjoy the silence. Connect your breath with your heart and belly. Be amazed about all of the events, new insights and struggles that you have survived and thrived through this year. Stand with curiosity and excitement about what is yet to come.

11/14/2025

As the news reveals more information and graphic details about human trafficking, sexual assault, pedophiles narcissism, abuse of power and more, please be gentle with yourself. The information that is being shared can be very triggering and re-traumatizing.

Injustice, lies, dismissal, gaslighting and reverse victimization can be maddening for all of us, but especially for those who have experienced abuse themselves.

If you have experienced abuse or assault, please consider limiting the amount of time that you spend on social media and the news, as there is a flurry of information being revealed right now.. While it is important to stay informed during these times, please also protect your heart. If you are experiencing re-traumatization, triggers or flashbacks, etc., please take good care of yourself, reach out to a mental health professional, use grounding techniques and interventions, such as self Brainspotting so that you can support yourself through these challenging times.

For those who are able, contact your elected officials, support agencies who work with abuse victims, and express your outrage in healthy ways to support victims of crime and help stop r**e culture and corruption.

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11/10/2025

I’m honored to have been chosen for this article in Voyalge Tampa magazine, and I’m thrilled to share my 30 year career journey with you.

The journey of the counselor is always one of synchronicity and service in a number of different ways and in different places. I’m grateful for every opportunity and experience that my path has offered. It has been a privilege to assist so many over the past 30 years. 💕

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Stacey Brown. Stacey, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?Stacey grew up in Alabama as a sixth generation Alabamian in her family lineage. After graduating from high school, Stacey entered Auburn Unive...

10/26/2025

Hey… Thanks for continuing to show up even when it’s hard. I see you.

Regardless of your personal challenges, your own trauma, external events, and relationship challenges, you remain hopeful, curious, willing to learn and self reflective. You’ve survived disappointments, heartache, grief, fear and your own dark night of the soul. And you’re still here… Expanding, growing, creating and maintaining that hopeful spirit of joy, love and service to others.

That’s pretty fancy.

Unfurl. Allow room for you to stretch and grow. The world needs your light now more than ever.

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10/24/2025

Today’s reminder… People will show you exactly who they are. Believe them the first time you see it. Trust your intuition. Protect yourself from gaslighting, lies, narcissism and dismissive behavior.

You deserve better. Stand in your integrity. Breathe deep. Know your truth. Don’t let anyone spin the narrative on you. Even when it’s painful, face reality in family, intimate relationships, friendships, politics… It can show up everywhere.

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10/22/2025

Speak up. Stand up for your rights.

Shout out to the more than 7 million people who showed up for peaceful protest and civic activism across America over the weekend. It doesn’t matter what your political leanings are. This is a human rights and civil rights and constitutional issue that is affecting all of us. Our melting pot is stronger when we work together and honor each other.

During stressful times, it’s helpful to become engaged if you have capacity to do so. Be an advocate for yourself and others. Call your congressional leaders, condemn human rights, violations, and promote peace and justice. 💕

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10/15/2025

Little things mean a lot.

Given everything that’s happening in the world, I think it’s a pretty good time to go outside and touch grass.

While you’re out there, look closely at the grass and the dirt and the weeds and the bugs. Notice what you see. Notice how you feel. Notice any thoughts or sensations rise up as you are just observing the grass. Notice how your breathing and heart rate changes.

Kind of amazing isn’t it?

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10/10/2025

It’s World Mental Health Day. Let’s acknowledge the importance of prioritizing our own mental health and balanced wellness in our relationships, workplace, personal lives and daily existing. It’s important to educate ourselves on mental health issues and increase or awareness about the stigma and discrimination that continues to be barriers to social inclusion and access to proper care.

Also, it’s important to remember that taking care of our mental health can also look like taking care of our physical health and our brain health. Basic staples such as proper nutrition and vitamins, living in a an emotionally, safe environment, balanced hormones, having healthy relationships, being able to properly digest your food, addressing autoimmune issues and food allergies, getting proper sleep, and other important factors related to brain health are so very relevant. Physical imbalances are often misdiagnosed as mental health concerns.

Should we rename “mental health awareness day” and call it “brain and body health awareness day?

Give yourself permission to take care of your mind, body and spirit. It all works together. It’s critically important to find balance.

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10/08/2025

The Breath. Breathwork. Breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Breathe deep. Just breathe.

During troubled times, the breath is the one thing that we can always rely on. We can control the breath and have it work for us in ways other than just sustaining everyday life.

Breathing regulates the heart rate. Certain breathing techniques can eliminate anxiety. Other types of breathwork can summon patience, endurance, stamina, courage, steadiness or bravery. Mindfulness based practices and somatic practices, like yoga and tai chi integrate physical movement with the breath so that the entire body works together as one amazing machine.

It sounds simple enough. We all walk around breathing. But many of us are not taking those very deep cleansing breaths. The breaths that go way down into the lower lobes of the lung that activate the vagal nerve response for relaxation are especially wonderful.

It’s easy to forget that we have this powerful medicine with us at all times. All we have to do is be reminded or maybe learn a few new tricks to be able to tap into this powerful, sacred healing practice.

As a meditation teacher and breathwork facilitator, these practices are integrated into the transpersonal counseling, trauma resolution and healing work that we can do together in counseling and coaching sessions.

Stay curious and get to know your own breath. Learn how it works for you… Or how it isn’t working for you.

Now that I’m on the other side of my deviated septum surgery, I am especially aware of the importance of breathwork. Thank you to everyone who checked on me and sent good vibes. All is well. I’ll be back in the office soon. I’ll be breathing right there with you, although a little easier and deeper from now on.

Ahhhhhhhh…..

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10/07/2025

There’s a lot going on right now. We’ve got a full moon, a government shut down, genocide, human rights violations, threats to democracy and a lot of uncertainty about a whole lot of things.

Keep yourself focused on the goodness of everyday life. We are agents of good. Keep yourself focused on truth. We can speak the truth. And keep yourself focused on beauty and love. We can find and offer elements of beauty and love in every day life. It’s the integration of these elements that keep us connected, communicating, joyful and thriving despite world events.

Start with yourself. Spread your light through your family, your community and beyond as you can.

We are all in this together.

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09/22/2025

Hello Libra Season and the Fall Equinox! In the aftermath of the powerful solar eclipse, we are stepping into our new life.

This new season is all about finding balance. Equality. Equalizing. Fair distributions. Harmony. Letting go of what does not serve you and recommitting to what is in your best interest for your most sustainable and joyful life.

During the fall equinox, there is an equal balance between daylight and night before things shifted into darknesses, cooler temperatures, and a need for retreat. The trees know how to greet this new season by releasing leaves. What do you need to release? Attitudes? Moods? Old ways of doing things? People? Habits? This is a great time to check in with yourself.

Libra season is represented by the scales of justice. When the scales are in balance, the energy flows beautifully. Consider where you might be out of balance in your life. Are you working too many long hours and not resting enough? Are you spending too much time in service to others and not enough time for yourself? Are you finding balance in your important relationships with good communication and consideration? Libra season asks that we find the magic of balance.

When it’s hard to find balance or harmony, it can be the result of personal anxiety, trauma, or lifestyle challenges. Integrative counseling and brain spotting can be very helpful.

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09/21/2025

It’s the 21st day of September. Do you remember? Might be a good time to listen to.Earth, Wind and Fire and dance it out.

I couldn’t help but notice that text messages from my clients started showing up just as this double Virgo solar eclipse was peeking today. We’re all feeling it.

Remember to engage with the elements and keep yourself grounded. There’s a lot of energy shifting today. Use expressive arts, such as drawing, painting, singing, dancing and journaling to help you to process the feelings that are happening in your body that may not be easily described with words.

Today marks the end of a 19 year karmic cycle. Do some reflecting about what you need to let go of. Be intentional about the seeds that you’re planting for your future goals. Notice the difference.

Keep going! Feel those feelings! Take good care of yourself today and always.

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