Insight and Empowerment, LLC

01/03/2026

✨ Self-trust isn’t loud. It’s steady. ✨

Self-trust grows when you begin listening inward instead of constantly searching for reassurance outside yourself.

It’s choosing to move forward even when certainty isn’t guaranteed — and knowing you can adapt without shame if things shift.

For many people, especially those with trauma histories, self-trust was interrupted by survival.

In therapy, we don’t force trust — we rebuild it gently, at the pace your nervous system allows.

Over time, trusting yourself becomes less about confidence and more about a quiet knowing: “I can handle what comes next.”

💛 Healing honors your wisdom.
🌱 Growth begins when you learn to believe yourself again.

Insight and Empowerment, LLC
In-person & online therapy

01/01/2026

A client shared this with me and this is what true healing takes ❤️

A Willingness to Keep Showing Up

I step into this new year
gently, without resolutions,
with just a simple willingness,
to keep going,
to keep moving forward.

Not the bright, declarative kind of decision
that arrives with banners and promises,
but the quieter kind,
the one that asks for nothing grand.

No transformation.
Just an honest effort
to place one foot in front of the other,
without needing it to be a victory march.

To keep going isn’t strength.
It’s letting the days arrive as they are,
some heavy,
some hollow,
some unexpectedly kind.

It’s allowing grief, fatigue, memory, and love
to share the same room,
without insisting that any of them leave.

There is no list.
No reinvention.
No deadline for becoming someone new.
There is only the steady choice
to remain present,
to trust that willingness itself
is an act of grace.

So this year begins
not with resolve, but with intention:
the intention to stay present,
the intention to try again tomorrow,
the intention to simply keep showing up.

~ 'A Willingness to Keep Showing Up' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olya Haydamaka

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12/20/2025

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In the moment of identifying an obsessive thought, the most important thing to do is offer a nonjudging, friendly quality of attention to your experience. In fact, the more friendly the better!

Gently remind yourself that the thought is “real but not true.” Honor that this is a moment of awakening, of stepping out of virtual reality into the actuality of what is here.

12/18/2025

Merry Jolly Christmas from the Insight & Empowerment team!!! 💚🎁🎄⛄️❤️

12/18/2025

Merry Christmas from the Insight & Empowerment team!!! ❤️🎄⛄️🎁💚

12/13/2025

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12/09/2025

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If you've been struggling with old patterns, feelings of not-enoughness, or difficult relationships, it might be time to focus on your inner child.

This shares 9 practical steps for reparenting yourself, including the importance of providing guidance and reassurance, comforting yourself in hard times, and encouraging growth and curiosity. This process is fundamental to breaking cycles and achieving genuine emotional well-being.

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