Maggie Gets Real - Cathartic Counseling & Anxiety Coaching

Maggie Gets Real - Cathartic Counseling & Anxiety Coaching Because you were never broken—you just needed a space built for you.

I help childfree women untangle themselves from people-pleasing and perfectionism so they can finally take up space, breathe deeply, and build lives they don’t need to escape from.

10/31/2025

👇🏼👇🏼You’ve been measuring your worth in the currency of other people’s approval for so long,
you forgot what enough actually feels like.

Title changes, salary jumps, compliments — they hit for a for like a second.

Then it’s back to the quiet hum of “okay, what’s next?” The goal post moves over and over and over

That’s not “just being ambitious”.
That’s you still living in survival mode.
Chasing the gold stars in order to feel seen and loved and accepted.

When you grow up being praised for being capable, calm, and impressive, your nervous system learns: achievement = safety.

So of course you chase the next “big” thing.
Of course you panic when there’s nothing to prove.
Stillness feels unsafe when chaos is what raised you.

❣️But real success is when you can rest without guilt.

🧨When you don’t need to perform calm to feel safe.
When peace doesn’t mean you’ve stopped caring it means you’ve finally started caring about yourself.

You’re allowed to stop measuring your worth in productivity and start measuring it in presence.

🫶🏼In how soft your body feels at night.

🤓In how often you laugh without earning it.

🫶🏼 If you’re ready to redefine success from the inside out, I made something to help.

Join my free email series — it’s a few short notes to help you feel good inside again, not just look good on paper.
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10/27/2025

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You know that moment when 👀👀👀someone asks “how are you?”and your mouth says “I’m fine” before your brain even checks in?...
10/24/2025

You know that moment when 👀👀👀someone asks “how are you?”

and your mouth says “I’m fine” before your brain even checks in?
🫠🫠🫠
yeah… that moment of learned autopilot.
You’re not lying.
You’re protecting yourself.

Because for years, “fine” kept the peace.
It kept things predictable.
It made sure nobody got upset or asked too many questions.

🚨Problem is, that peacekeeping version of you is tired!!.
And she deserves better than pretending she’s okay all the time.

So next time “I’m fine” shows up on autopilot,
👉pause.
👉breathe.
👉and whisper to yourself:
❣️“It’s okay to not be okay all the time.”

That tiny moment is you choosing honesty over invisibility.

👇 drop a YOUR FAVORITE EMOJI if you’ve caught yourself saying “I’m fine” this week …
and maybe meant something else.

Don’t even know where to start? 👇 👇 👇Don’t worry most of the people I work start out the same way, so I’ve got a full on...
10/21/2025

Don’t even know where to start? 👇 👇 👇

Don’t worry most of the people I work start out the same way, so I’ve got a full on list for you.

These are just a few of my favorite go-to things that I (and my clients) have found SUUUUPER helpful for transitioning out of productivity machine robot lady mode.

(BUT please, PLEASE don’t turn this list into tasks to check off. PICK ONE!)

✨ Take an extra-long shower with no purpose except to feel warm and clean.
✨ Make your coffee/tea in silence — no phone, no podcast, just you and your mug.
✨ Stretch for 2 minutes like a cat. Literally, pretend you’re a cat.
✨ Sit outside for five minutes and stare at nothing.
✨ Delete one email that’s been haunting you. Just one.
✨ Go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual and call it a win.
✨ Light a candle just because.
✨ Wear your comfiest clothes before 8PM (no need to “earn” them).
✨ Eat a meal sitting down without screens and not while standing, driving, or multitasking.
✨ Let the dishes sit. They’ll still be there later (rude, but true).
✨ Say “no” to one small thing this week and notice the space/breathing room it creates.
✨ Text a friend something kind without expecting a reply.
✨ Do something creative with zero goal: doodle, dance, rearrange a shelf.
✨ Unfollow one account that makes you feel “less than.”
✨ Drive in silence: no music, no podcast, just breathe.
✨ Read a few pages of a book with no “personal growth” intent.
✨ Order takeout without guilt.
✨ Sit on the floor. (It’s grounding. Trust me.)
✨ Touch grass..or a bush or a tree or a flower or soil. Go outside and BE outside for a few minutes.

So tell me, how are you resting this week? comment below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

10/21/2025

If you’re too sick to go to school, you’re too sick to watch TV.
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

So many of us were taught this EARLY. Our parents did the best they could (and sure, that line works when you’re 13 and trying to skip a math test)….

But for grown women who were raised to chase gold stars and emotionally rely on themselves (and no one else)…

that message became a toll road to burnout. (that’s such a Houston image to use 🫠)

Because what you really learned from this statement was this:
⚡ You have to earn rest.
⚡ Rest is for when everything’s done.
⚡ Productivity = worth.

So now, when you finally slow down,
you feel guilty for not “doing enough.”

You think, I should be folding laundry right now instead of watching TV.
You forget that you’re a human, not a machine in a capitalist factory.
It’s okay — we can unlearn that.

👉👉🚨👀Here’s what I teach my clients when they want to stop being fine on the outside and start feeling calm on the inside: it’s part of the R in my REAL framework, btw:

Step 1️⃣ Reclaim your mornings.
Before you touch your phone, take three slow breaths and ask,
“What do I actually need today?”
Not “what’s on the list” —> what you need.

Step 2️⃣ Set a minimum standard for rest.
You don’t have to earn rest but you do have to schedule it.
Even 10 minutes counts.
Rest is a daily vitamin but the kind that actually is science backed. 😉

Step 3️⃣ Stop apologizing for it. Like literally STOP IT.
You’re allowed to rest even when the house isn’t perfect.
Even when your inbox is full.
Even when your brain says you haven’t done enough yet.

So this week, let’s practice slowing down. Even just for a breath, a coffee, or an episode of “bad” TV without guilt.

💛 Comment one thing you’re doing to slow down this week.
(Yes, “couch rotting” counts.)

You’re going to want to save this one 👇 👇 👇When everything feels like too much, your first job isn’t to fix it.It’s to r...
10/16/2025

You’re going to want to save this one 👇 👇 👇

When everything feels like too much, your first job isn’t to fix it.
It’s to regulate. to come back to what’s real for you.

Here’s one small way to do that: 👀
Step 1: Pause your scroll. Feel your feet.
Before you name or solve anything, let your body know you’re safe.
Notice the weight of your body in the chair, your breath, the air around you.
You can’t sort what’s yours if you’re not in your body.

Step 2: Separate the laundry list of thoughts.
Take a 30,000-foot view of what’s spinning in your mind …the things giving you pressure.
No judgment, no fixing, just noticing.
Now spot the ones that should be someone else’s to carry:
Your mom being mad at your brother for skipping Thanksgiving.
Your coworker posting about how “real adults” buy houses by thirty.
The internet arguing about whether you’re “selfish” for not having kids.
That’s the world’s noise, not your job.

Step 3: Turn each thought into a cloud.
With every exhale, watch the clouds that don’t belong to you drift farther away.
The ones that do: like how proud you are for potty-training your new puppy,
or that you actually went to bed last night without doom-scrolling!!….
let those clouds grow bigger, brighter.
Keep breathing until only your clouds remain, floating in your sky.

This is one way to regulate your nervous system
and something I teach more deeply (often with clinical hypnosis) inside my sessions.

Save this post for later 🫶🏼
and come back to it the next time your mind starts holding more than it can carry.

“Maybe later” has been your safety blanket. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼But later never comes — because nothing changes until you do. Quie...
10/13/2025

“Maybe later” has been your safety blanket. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
But later never comes — because nothing changes until you do.

Quiet Strength isn’t about adding more to your plate.
It’s about building a calmer, stronger version of you
who can rest without guilt, speak without fear, and stop pretending to be fine.

Doors close tonight at 11:59PM PT.
If your body’s whispering “yes,” trust it.
💛 Tap the link in bio to join us inside.

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