Kylie Liddle, LMHC

04/23/2026

🔑✨ What Does Therapy Look Like?
Therapy Secrets (That Aren’t Really Secrets)
Week 9

Sometimes therapy includes big emotions.

You might cry.
You might laugh.
You might feel relief, frustration, or exhaustion.

All of that is normal.

Therapy is one of the few places where emotions don’t have to be hidden or minimized.

Feeling deeply is not failure.
it’s often part of healing.

04/20/2026

Mind Reset Monday 💙

🤝 Ever feel responsible for everyone else’s feelings, problems, or reactions?

A lot of people carry the quiet belief: “It’s my job to fix it.”
That can lead to over-giving, burnout, and saying yes when you really mean no.

This week’s focus: noticing where responsibility actually belongs.

✨ Super Simple Strategy:
Draw a circle and divide it like a pie chart for a stressful situation.
Ask yourself: Who truly owns each piece of this?
You might discover you’ve been carrying more than your share.
Healthy boundaries aren’t selfish — they’re sustainable.

04/16/2026

🔑✨ What Does Therapy Look Like?
Therapy Secrets (That Aren’t Really Secrets)
Week 8

Therapy progress rarely looks like a straight line.

Some weeks you feel lighter.
Some weeks feel hard.
Sometimes awareness grows before relief does.

Progress can look like:
• Setting a boundary
• Understanding a trigger
• Responding differently
• Being kinder to yourself

Small changes matter.

04/13/2026

Mind Reset Monday 💙

😴 If your brain suddenly wants to solve your entire life the moment your head hits the pillow… you’re not alone. Sleep struggles often aren’t about not being tired — they’re about a busy mind that won’t power down.

This week is all about a gentle sleep reset using small, realistic habits.

✨ Super Simple Strategy:
Try a 2-minute brain dump before bed.
Write down everything looping in your mind — worries, reminders, random thoughts — then close the notebook.
You’re not fixing it tonight. You’re just giving your brain permission to rest.
Better sleep usually starts with calming the mind, not forcing sleep.

04/09/2026

🔑✨ What Does Therapy Look Like?
Therapy Secrets (That Aren’t Really Secrets)
Week 7

Therapy isn’t someone fixing you.

It’s a partnership.

You bring:
• Your experiences
• Your goals
• Your honesty

Your therapist brings:
• Training
• Perspective
• Tools and support

Together, you figure out what helps you move forward.

04/06/2026

Mind Reset Monday 💙

🧠 Ever sit down to do one thing… and suddenly you’re reorganizing a drawer, checking your phone, and wondering where the last hour went?

Attention and focus struggles happen to a lot of people — ADHD or not. Often it’s not laziness… it’s overwhelm.
Instead of trying to do everything, focus on the next right thing.

✨ Super Simple Strategy:
Set a timer for 10 minutes and start one small step of the task — not the whole project.
No perfection. No side quests. Just begin.
Most of the time, starting is the hardest part. Momentum does the rest.

04/02/2026

🔑✨ What Does Therapy Look Like?
Therapy Secrets (That Aren’t Really Secrets)
Week 6

One of the biggest worries people have:

“What if I sit down and don’t know what to say?”

That happens ALL the time.

You can start with:
• “I don’t know where to begin.”
• “I’ve been overwhelmed.”
• “I just feel off.”

Your therapist helps guide the conversation.
You don’t need a script.

04/01/2026

As a therapist, and someone who has walked the long, complicated road of caregiving for a parent with Alzheimer’s, I want to say this clearly: caregivers need support too.

You are allowed to feel tired, overwhelmed, and human. You don’t have to carry it all alone.
Reach out if you need to. 🤍

Caregivers show up every day — often quietly, often without recognition.

If you're supporting a loved one living with a mental health condition, your role matters. Your wellbeing matters, too.

On National Caregivers Day, the NAMI Family Caregiver HelpLine is here with trusted information, guidance and support.

Call 800-950-6264 (M–F, 10 a.m.–10 p.m. ET) • Text "FAMILY" to 62640 • Learn more: nami.org/family

If you need immediate crisis support, call or text 988 anytime.

03/30/2026

Mind Reset Monday 💙

💸 Feeling the stress of rising prices and bills lately? You’re not alone.

When money stress hits, our brains jump to worst-case scenarios — “I’ll never catch up” or “everything is falling apart.” That’s called catastrophic thinking, and it’s a very human response.
Instead of spiraling, try focusing on what you can actually control.

✨ 2-Minute Strategy:
Draw two columns:
• Can’t control: inflation, prices, the economy
• Can control: one small spending change, asking for help, making a simple plan
Then choose one small action today.
Small, practical steps calm anxiety better than worrying ever will.

03/29/2026

Resting today doesn’t mean you’re lazy or falling behind, it just means you’re taking care of yourself in a world that doesn’t always make that easy.

Somewhere along the way, rest became something you had to earn.

You finish the week running on fumes, and even then, stopping feels like a risk. Like the moment you let go, something will slip. Like the people who keep going are the ones who actually care.

The neuroscience says otherwise. A mind that never fully recovers doesn't perform. It compensates. There is a significant difference between those two things, and you feel it in the quality of your thinking, your patience, your ability to be present with the people you love.

One day a week of genuine rest is not indulgence. It is maintenance. The same way you would not run a car indefinitely without a service and expect it to perform, your mind requires deliberate recovery to operate at the level you are asking of it.

This is your reminder that today counts. Use it well by doing less than you think you should.

Send this to someone who needs permission to stop today. They probably won't send it to themselves. 👇

03/26/2026

🔑✨ What Does Therapy Look Like?
Therapy Secrets (That Aren’t Really Secrets)
Week 5

Yes, sometimes therapy explores the past.

But therapy also focuses on:
• What’s happening right now
• How you respond to stress
• Skills you can use today
• Creating the future you want

You are not required to dig into everything immediately.
You decide what feels safe to talk about.

03/23/2026

Mind Reset Monday 💙

Burnout doesn’t always look like falling apart.
Sometimes it looks like getting everything done… and feeling exhausted, numb, or resentful while you do it.
In a hustle-heavy world, “high-functioning burnout” is real.

Try this quick Energy Audit:
At the end of today, write down 3 things you did.
Next to each one, label it:
➕ Gave me energy
➖ Drained my energy
➖➖ Completely depleted me

Awareness is step one. You can’t protect your energy if you don’t know where it’s going. 💛