The Holistic Counseling Center

The Holistic Counseling Center Holistic Counseling Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

✨Healing from trauma isn’t loud.✨It’s not linear.And it doesn’t look like never being triggered again.More often, healin...
01/02/2026

✨Healing from trauma isn’t loud.✨

It’s not linear.
And it doesn’t look like never being triggered again.

More often, healing looks like:
✨pausing instead of spiraling
✨choosing boundaries without over-explaining
✨staying present through discomfort
✨no longer confusing intensity for intimacy
✨grieving the past without shaming yourself for it

This is what nervous system healing actually feels like — quieter, steadier, and safer inside yourself.

If this resonates, you’re not “behind.”
You’re doing the kind of healing that lasts.

💬 Which slide felt like it described your life right now?
💬 What shifted for you when calm started feeling safe instead of boring?
💬 Did any of these signs surprise you?

✨Save this for the days you need a reminder.✨





Trauma doesn’t heal through insight alone.It heals when the nervous system learns — through experience — that safety is ...
12/31/2025

Trauma doesn’t heal through insight alone.
It heals when the nervous system learns — through experience — that safety is possible now.

This is why personalized, holistic, and experiential care isn’t extra — it’s essential.

💬 What part of healing helped you the most?

Talk therapy is powerful — and incomplete on its own when it comes to trauma.Trauma healing isn’t about understanding th...
12/30/2025

Talk therapy is powerful — and incomplete on its own when it comes to trauma.
Trauma healing isn’t about understanding the past better.
It’s about teaching your nervous system that the past is over.

💬 Have you felt this gap in your own healing journey?

✨A dysregulated nervous system doesn’t need pressure, perfection, or a “new year, new you” overhaul.✨It needs safety.It ...
12/30/2025

✨A dysregulated nervous system doesn’t need pressure, perfection, or a “new year, new you” overhaul.✨

It needs safety.
It needs consistency.
It needs compassion.

Healing isn’t about doing more—it’s about creating the conditions where your body finally feels safe enough to change.

This year, we’re choosing regulation before resolution. 🤍

Save this for when you feel behind.
Share it with someone whose body is asking for gentleness.
Comment “SAFE” if you’re choosing a softer approach this season.





✨When someone leaves, the pain often isn’t just about this loss.✨It’s about every moment your body learned that connecti...
12/28/2025

✨When someone leaves, the pain often isn’t just about this loss.✨

It’s about every moment your body learned that connection wasn’t guaranteed.

The abandonment wound doesn’t live in logic.

It lives in the nervous system — in the tightening chest, the racing thoughts, the urge to cling or shut down.

This is why healing isn’t about “moving on” faster.
It’s about helping your body learn, over time, that safety, connection, and love can stay.

And that work deserves patience, compassion, and the right kind of support.

✨ You’re not broken.
✨ You’re responding to what you learned.
✨ And those patterns can heal.

Does abandonment show up for you as anxiety, withdrawal, people-pleasing, or hyper-independence?

You’re not alone — comment or save if this resonates. ❤️

The holidays often bring mixed emotions — love, grief, gratitude, resentment, nostalgia, exhaustion — all at once.Dialec...
12/26/2025

The holidays often bring mixed emotions — love, grief, gratitude, resentment, nostalgia, exhaustion — all at once.

Dialectical thinking reminds us that we don’t have to choose one feeling over another to be valid.
And we don’t have to sacrifice boundaries to belong.

💬 What’s one boundary you’re practicing this holiday season — or one emotion you’re allowing yourself to feel?

Save this for later or share with someone who needs the reminder.

-informed

✨Happy Holidays from Holistic Wellness✨This season, we’re reminded that healing isn’t just something we do — it’s someth...
12/24/2025

✨Happy Holidays from Holistic Wellness✨

This season, we’re reminded that healing isn’t just something we do — it’s something we share.

As the year comes to a close, we’re deeply grateful for our community:

The clients who trust us with their stories, the clinicians who show up with heart and integrity, and the reminder that healing happens best when we’re not alone.

May this holiday season offer you moments of rest, reflection, and reconnection — with your body, your mind, and the people who matter most. 🤍

✨ What are you most grateful for as this year wraps up?
Tell us below 👇

With warmth and gratitude,
The Holistic Team 🌿





✨You are allowed to hold more than one truth at the same time.✨You can love your familyand feel overwhelmed by them.You ...
12/23/2025

✨You are allowed to hold more than one truth at the same time.✨

You can love your family
and feel overwhelmed by them.
You can cherish traditions
and grieve what never felt safe.
You can care deeply
and choose boundaries.

That’s not confusion.
That’s emotional complexity.

Dialectics remind us that healing isn’t about choosing one feeling over another—it’s about learning how to hold both without abandoning yourself. ❤️

Especially during the holidays, regulation doesn’t mean calm all the time.

It means staying connected to your values, your limits, and your nervous system.

If the holidays feel complicated this year, you’re not doing it wrong.

You’re doing something very human 🌱

Which line resonated with you most—or felt hardest to allow yourself to believe? 💬

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✨For a long time, I thought depth meant intensity.✨Through both my personal healing and my clinical work, I’ve learned t...
12/22/2025

✨For a long time, I thought depth meant intensity.✨

Through both my personal healing and my clinical work, I’ve learned this:

Intensity is often a nervous-system response to inconsistency — not a sign of secure love. ❤️

Relational healing happens when connection becomes steady enough for the body to soften.

If your body isn’t calming, it’s not because you’re broken.
It’s because it learned to survive.

And that can be healed.

🤍










✨ The future of wellness is holistic.✨At Psychology of Wellness, we believe true healing happens when we address the min...
12/20/2025

✨ The future of wellness is holistic.✨

At Psychology of Wellness, we believe true healing happens when we address the mind, body, and nervous system together—not in silos.

Therapy isn’t just about coping anymore. It’s about root-cause healing, regulation, resilience, and wholeness.

Whether you’re navigating trauma, stress, burnout, or simply ready to feel more aligned in your life, you don’t have to do it alone.

This is a space where science meets compassion—and where healing is personalized, integrative, and deeply human.

📍 Now welcoming clients in Grand Rapids, MI.

Call to Action:
👉 Schedule a consultation or learn more by emailing info@theholisticcounselingcentergr.com
👉 Call (616) 277-7533
👉 Save this post or share with someone who needs a more holistic approach to healing





✨Slow healing doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means your body is being careful.✨With complex trauma, your nervous system...
12/19/2025

✨Slow healing doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means your body is being careful.✨

With complex trauma, your nervous system learned survival before safety.
✨So healing isn’t fast.
✨It isn’t linear.
✨And it isn’t something you can force.

Progress might look quiet:
✨reacting a little less
✨resting without guilt
✨pausing before people-pleasing

That is healing.

If this feels like you, you’re not behind.
You’re not broken.
Your body is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

🤍 Send this to someone who needs the reminder today.
You don’t have to heal alone.

The Holistic Counseling Center





✨Living with complex trauma often looks invisible from the outside.✨You can be successful, accomplished, and “high-funct...
12/18/2025

✨Living with complex trauma often looks invisible from the outside.✨

You can be successful, accomplished, and “high-functioning”…
and still feel unsafe in quiet moments.
Still scan rooms.
Still brace your body without realizing it.

Complex trauma isn’t about one bad memory.
It’s about a nervous system that learned early that staying alert meant staying alive. ❤️

Overfunctioning wasn’t a flaw.
Hyper-awareness wasn’t drama.
Intensity wasn’t preference.

They were adaptations.

Healing doesn’t mean forcing yourself to “let go” or pushing for calm before your body is ready.

It means slowly, compassionately teaching your nervous system that the danger has passed.

That rest doesn’t need to be earned.
That love doesn’t require vigilance.
That safety can be steady—not explosive.

If this resonated, you’re not broken.
Your system learned how to survive.
And it can also learn how to rest. 🤍

The Holistic Counseling Center

✨Does calm ever feel uncomfortable for you too?
✨Did you recognize yourself in these patterns?


















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Grand Rapids, MI
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Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm

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