The Better Mind Center

12/28/2025

12/18/2025

📢 THIS HOLIDAY SEASON! 📢

Shift from 😤 control 😤 → 😌 capacity 😌

Instead of trying to control how the holidays go, focus on trusting your capacity to respond!

Uncertainty ramps up symptoms when the brain believes “I won’t be able to handle this.”

Helpful reframe:

“I don’t know how this will unfold, and I can handle whatever comes up.”

This moves the nervous system out of hypervigilance and into flexibility. 🤍

I’m with you. Keep going. ✨

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12/12/2025

I keep hearing in my head saying “movement needs to be a part of the process, not the end result!”

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12/09/2025

🤍🤍🤍🤍

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12/05/2025

small steps of bravery > giant leaps

👣 Choose an exposure.

👣 Commit to doing the exposure despite how fear shows up.

👣 Notice the sensations of fear in your body as you do the exposure.

👣 Don’t fix it, just notice.

👣 Let the discomfort be there while you do the exposure. You will be okay.

👣 Your job isn’t to push fear away, just stay long enough to feel it shift on its own naturally.

👣 Celebrate when done to reappraise the experience as safe!

Small steps matter.

Your body learns safety through experience.

This is how rewiring happens: one tolerated moment at a time. ✨

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12/02/2025

Unless you’re taking a mind-body recovery class… grades do not exist here. But if they did, you’d get an A+ just for showing up.

Let yourself be human. 🤍

11/20/2025

Healing isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. You’re allowed to take what fits for you, and leave what doesn’t!!

Just keep going. 🤍

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10/30/2025

Grief is both emotional AND physical.

It can feel like pressure in your chest, exhaustion, brain fog, or tension.

Your body isn’t broken!

It’s trying to process loss, not punish you.

❤️‍🩹 To move through it:

1. Name what you feel… even if the only word you have is “numb.”

2. Let your body express it: cry, shake, rest, move. There’s no wrong way to release!

3. Lean on safe connection. Our nervous systems heal best when we don’t have to hold it alone. Read that again.

4. Make space for moments of lightness. Joy doesn’t erase grief. It reminds your system that safety and love still exist.

Sending you lots of love and so many long hugs. 🤍

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10/29/2025

Backed by research and lived experience. 😉

You got this. 🤍✨

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10/23/2025

More being, less doing.

More compassion, less criticism.

More living, less surviving.

Easier said than done, I know. But if I could do it, you can too. 🫶

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10/21/2025

You’re doing all the right things by gradually re-engaging with life….

And yet symptoms are still here! 😩

Why why why why!!!

But that’s just it. Maybe the “why” isn’t as important as the “how?”

How am I going to continue to show up for myself on the hard days?

How am I going to change my response when I notice myself become fixed on the outcome?

How can I lean more into the present moment to experience more joy, love, playfulness, and compassion?

Sometimes what keeps symptoms stuck isn’t the activity itself, but the fear and/or monitoring happening underneath.

“Is this making it worse?”

“Will I flare later??”

“Why are symptoms still here when I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing?”

Try bringing a little more calm, compassion, and trust during those moments... helping your brain learn, “I can move and be okay.”

It’s hard, but I know you can do this.

Drop a piece of advice or comfort for those struggling with this right now, we’ve all been there. 🤍