Empowered Minds Mental Health Counseling PLLC

12/31/2025

Before the new year begins, I want you to hear this:
you don’t need to fix yourself to be worthy.

I wrote this reflection after noticing how many women feel pressure to reinvent themselves every January — even when what they really need is space to slow down, reflect, and listen inward.

I turned that reflection into a free end-of-year journal to help you close this chapter intentionally and step into the next one with more clarity and self-trust.

🤍 Comment “journal” and I’ll send it to you.
Save this for later.

Share it with someone who needs permission to pause.

Have a safe and happy New Year 🤍
Love,
Randi

12/31/2025

I spent so much of this year rushing toward the next thing—thinking rest, presence, or ease had to be earned.

It doesn’t.

You’re worthy even when you slow down. Even when you pause. Even when you’re not producing.

If this resonates, save it as a reminder for the version of you who’s learning to soften. 💛

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12/22/2025

Most women don’t stay because they want less.
They stay because they start believing they’re asking for too much.

When emotional safety is missing, your nervous system doesn’t say “leave.”
It says adapt.

So you shrink.
You repress your needs.
You make yourself smaller so the relationship can survive.

That doesn’t mean there was anything wrong with you.
It means you were trying to attach where emotional availability didn’t exist.

I wrote more about this—through both personal experience and attachment-based insight—on the blog this week.

👉 Read it via the link in my bio

https://www.empoweredmindsmhcpllc.com/post/emotional-unavailability-in-relationships-love-confession

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12/19/2025

Most women don’t stay because they want less.
They stay because they start believing they’re asking for too much.

When emotional safety is missing, your nervous system doesn’t say “leave.”
It says “adapt.”
So you shrink. You repress. You self-blame.

That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you.
It means you were trying to attach where consistency didn’t exist.

What you’re asking for—emotional presence, reassurance, real intimacy—exists.
Yes, even in men.

I wrote more about this (and why it was never your fault) in this week’s newsletter.

👉 Read it via the link 🔗 in my bio

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