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My mission is to inspire, motivate, uplift, and empower individuals � Here’s to healing! LCMHC| Proverbs 31:25-26

11/20/2025

Live in the moment, not in the memory.💚
Because memories will trap you in chapters your spirit already walked out of.
They replay old pain like it’s still happening, pull you back into versions of yourself you’ve outgrown, and convince you that healing means staying loyal to the survival patterns that protected you back then.

But the moment is where your body actually lives.
It’s where your nervous system decides if you’re safe.

It’s where you get to breathe without bracing.
It’s where your feet learn the ground isn’t shaking anymore, even if your past taught you to expect it.

And living in the moment doesn’t mean pretending the past didn’t hurt.
It means accepting that the survival skills that held you together were necessary then, but they don’t have to run your life now.
It means refusing to let an old wound dictate today’s choices.
It means catching yourself when your mind drifts backward and saying,
“Not today. You are safe.”

Some of this work happens in real time,
and some of it happens in therapy, where you finally get the space to process the wounds you had to power through just to keep going.

In the moment, you can regulate.
In the moment, you can choose differently.
In the moment, you can unlearn the armor and build beliefs that actually bring peace.

The memory is the lesson.
The moment is your life.

Choose the place where you’re growing, not the place where you were only surviving.

11/18/2025

We’re so quick to judge somebody else’s chaos and throw out, “that could never be me.”

Life has a funny way of humbling you.
The situation could absolutely be you. Any of us could blink and end up in a chapter we never signed up for.

We dont get to choose trauma, grief, hurt or pain.

The difference is the outcome — that’s where your choices, support, healing, and faith shape a different ending.

So instead of judging, lead with compassion.
Because half the time, the only thing separating their reality from yours is one decision, one moment, or one circumstance you never saw coming. The kind that reminds you to see people with softer eyes and a steadier heart. 🩷

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10/28/2025

🌸 Reclaiming Joy: The Healing Power of Remembering What Made You Happy.

Sometimes the key to emotional regulation isn’t another adult strategy. It’s remembering the child in you who used to find joy for no reason at all.

Sometimes we have to revisit what brought us happiness during childhood and place those things back into our adult lives on purpose.

Somewhere between survival and responsibility, we forgot how to just be.

Society told us adulthood is about working, paying bills, and taking care of everyone else. But what about you? The individual beneath the roles, the expectations, the exhaustion.

That little version of you still remembers what peace felt like before the world told you to earn it.

🧩 Coping skills aren’t just for crisis.
They’re preventive medicine.
They strengthen your emotional baseline so when life hits, you’re more likely to reach for healthy coping instead of shutting down or numbing out.

For me, I’ve gotten back into:
📚 Reading books that make me dream again
🎨 Coloring just because it calms my spirit
🎮 Playing my Nintendo Switch
💖 And embracing my Hello Kitty obsession with zero shame

Healing doesn’t always have to be heavy. Sometimes it can be playful, light, and freeing.

Don’t let adulthood strip you of wonder.
Go back to what once made your heart light.
Reclaim joy as a form of resistance.
Because healing isn’t just about fixing what broke. It’s about remembering what makes you glow.

10/27/2025

You won’t find yourself in someone else’s reflection.
You find you in the mirror.
In the quiet moments.
In the honesty of your own eyes.

We get so caught up expecting people to love how we love, move how we move, give how we give.
And when they don’t, we take it personal.
We spiral. We question our worth instead of their capacity.

But sometimes the chaos isn’t coming from them.
It’s coming from us, trying to squeeze our standards into places they don’t belong.

Trying to pull reciprocity out of people who were only meant to reveal what parts of us still need healing.

At some point you have to align your behaviors with your values.

If you say you value peace, why keep revisiting situations that create confusion? If you say you want clarity, why entertain connections that keep you guessing? You can’t say you want still waters and keep swimming back to storms.

You don’t need a mirror made of people to remind you of who you are.
You just need you.
Standing in your truth.
Loving yourself the way you keep hoping they will.
That’s where peace begins.

So stop chasing reflections.
Start honoring your own.

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10/26/2025

What broke you tried to bury you, but all it did was plant you.
I grew roots so deep that even the storm had to take notes. Healing isn’t a hush-hush recovery story. It’s a public landmark of grace. A reminder that you survived the scene that was meant to end you.

See, the moment was quick (or not) but the monument? It’s eternal. It’s your heart rebuilt in brick and faith. It’s your peace carved out of pain. It’s the truth you stand on to say, “I made it.
So when they ask me about my past, I don’t flinch. I point to the proof. Because my trauma was a moment…but my healing. My healing is a monument.

10/10/2025

Be careful what you water in your head , it grows.

If you feed fear, it blooms into anxiety.
If you water doubt, it roots into insecurity.
But if you pour into peace, gratitude, and truth you’ll watch healing grow wild.

Your mind is a garden.
Pull the weeds. Plant what you want to see more of.

🧠 Tend to your thoughts, they’re the blueprint for your peace.

The world doesn’t need a stronger mask.
It needs your softness healed, your story told, and your peace reclaimed.

World Mental Health Day reminds us that healing is world work. Because when you tend to your mind, you shift the atmosphere around you.

Take up space. Cry if you need to. Laugh if it comes.
Sit with yourself until peace introduces herself again.

🌱 Today we honor the invisible battles and the quiet victories.

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07/04/2025

Not everyone is free.

Today isn’t fireworks and parades for everyone—it’s a painful reminder of a system built on injustice and fueled by greed. As a mental health professional, I see the impact every single day.

Let’s stop celebrating a freedom that doesn’t exist for all. Only for Billionaires.

Let’s start fighting for it. 💔🇺🇸

06/04/2025

You don’t have to be a product of your past. Some grapes stay grapes. Some become raisins — dried out but still hanging on. Some turn into wine — crushed, fermented, transformed. 🍇➡️🍷
Often we get so caught up in ‘I was raised that way’ or ‘that’s just how I am.’ But at what point do we stop making excuses for behaviors shaped by old environments and start choosing who we want to become? Growth requires accountability. Healing requires honesty. And transformation? That requires being willing to unlearn and evolve. You are allowed to change. You are allowed to become.

04/21/2025

We have the Bible for history, but sometimes we need a present-day reminder—His-tory and Her-story.
Because what God brought you through personally is just as powerful as what He did back then.
Don’t forget your own testimony—it’s proof….He’s still moving.

04/20/2025

He is risen—and with Him, hope rises too.

This Easter, we’re reminded that healing, restoration, and new beginnings are always possible. No matter what season you’re in, there is hope for your heart, peace for your mind, and grace for your journey.

Wishing you and your loved ones a beautiful and peaceful Easter Sunday!

03/22/2025

Eve wasn’t even hungry. The serpent just placed a thought she became curious. How often do we allow things to be planted into our mind and we feed that thought out of curiosity, boredom, or comfort?
Eve wasn’t hungry—she was curious, and the serpent played on that curiosity, planting doubt and temptation. Sometimes we aren’t lacking anything, but outside voices make us question if we’re missing out. How often do we open the door to our own chaos?
How often do we take a bite of something we don’t need, just because someone made us question if we’re missing out?

Discernment > Curiosity.
Stay grounded. Not everything whispered in your ear is for your good. Not everything you see on social media is for your good. Not every relationship you’re forcing yourself into is for you good. What thoughts were planted? What behaviors are you watering that’s growing?

03/22/2025

✨ Mantras for your self-love era. ✨
Swipe through and speak these over yourself today.
Because the most important relationship you’ll ever have… is the one with YOURSELF.
Ready to dive deeper into embracing wholeness, setting boundaries, and cultivating the love you deserve?

My brand new 143-page Self-Love Journey eBook is now available on my website!
Inside, you’ll find:
• Practical tools to transform how you see and treat yourself
• A 30-day guided self-love challenge
• PLUS, exclusive access to deep dive videos
It’s time to stop waiting for permission to love yourself fully. You deserve you too! 💕
You are worthy. You are whole. You are enough.
Grab your copy today — link in bio!

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