Healing Hearts Counseling & Consulting, LLC

11/17/2025

Men often feel pressure to “be strong,” but real strength is reaching out when you need support. This Men’s Mental Health Month, let’s break the stigma together.

11/07/2025

This month, let’s remind the men in our lives:
You are seen. You are needed. You are not alone.
Healing starts with a conversation. 💙

11/07/2025

11/04/2025

This month, we stand with the men who carry more than they show. Your mental health matters — and you don’t have to face it alone. 🖤

11/03/2025

You don’t have to walk through it alone.
Healing takes time, and help is here.

10/30/2025

Mark your calendars for the next upcoming mobile food market!

****To help us serve more households, we’re limiting food box pickups to two per car. Thanks for your cooperation!****

10/29/2025

🍽️Food Resources Available for Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha Counties
We hope this information is helpful to our community! Please keep an eye on our LIFT Family Resource Center page for updates regarding food box availability. We’re working hard to bring more resources your way and hope to have additional food boxes available in just a few weeks.

10/24/2025

Questions?
Call either office. Hugo: 580-326-5279; Atoka: 580-364-0205
Together, we can ensure our clients and community have what they need.

10/23/2025

If it breaks their spirit, it’s not discipline — it’s punishment. And there’s a difference.

Discipline is meant to guide, not to shame. At its core, it should centre a child, not scatter them. It should bring clarity, not confusion; connection, not disconnection.

True discipline grounds a child in safety, structure, and self-awareness. It says: I’m here. I see you. I’m helping you find your way.

Punishment, on the other hand, shames and frightens. It silences curiosity, replaces learning with fear, and severs the very connection that makes growth possible.

Because correction without connection isn’t guidance — it’s fear in disguise. And fear may control behaviour in the moment, but it never cultivates understanding. It teaches compliance, not conscience; silence, not self-awareness.

Many of us were taught that discipline and punishment were the same — that control was the way to teach respect. But fear doesn’t build respect; it builds distance.

Our children don’t learn better when they’re afraid of us — they learn better when they feel safe with us.

So before we call it discipline, we have to ask:
Did it teach?
Did it connect?
Did it leave their dignity intact?

Because when correction becomes connection, discipline transforms from something we do to a child into something we build with them.

Let’s choose tools that build trust, not tear it down.
Let’s raise children who know boundaries — not because they’ve been broken by them, but because they’ve been held by them. ❤️