Broken Wings Ministry

Broken Wings Ministry outpatient mental health services in Orlando and telehealth throughout Florida letstalkcounseling.org

Happy New Year
01/01/2026

Happy New Year

12/31/2025

Proud of you for the big wins, the small wins, and the courage it takes to keep going. 💙

Many believe they must choose between prayer and counseling, but true wellness comes from both.Faith gives hope; therapy...
12/30/2025

Many believe they must choose between prayer and counseling, but true wellness comes from both.
Faith gives hope; therapy gives tools.

Research shows that spiritual practices such as prayer, gratitude, and meditation correlate with lower anxiety and greater resilience. Therapy complements that by helping you process pain, build boundaries, and apply those truths in daily life.

At Broken Wings, we honor faith as part of the healing process. You can bring your beliefs, your doubts, and your story, we’ll meet you where you are.

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando (Narcoossee & Conway Gardens) • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne (Viera)

12/29/2025

Orange County Government and the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida are notifying residents, individuals who are homeless, and people without stable housing that two temporary cold-weather warming centers will be available overnight on Tuesday, December 30, and Wednesday, December 31, 2025.

📍 Barnett Park - 4801 West Colonial Drive
📍 Goldenrod Rec. Center - 4863 North Goldenrod Road
Info: bit.ly/48Zc12D
HSN: bit.ly/4hb3n2v
Weather: bit.ly/3POHxWB
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El Gobierno del Condado de Orange y la Red de Servicios para Personas sin Hogar de Florida Central están notificando a los residentes, personas sin hogar y personas sin vivienda estable que dos centros de calentamiento temporales para el clima frío estarán disponibles durante la noche del martes 30 de diciembre y del miércoles 31 de diciembre de 2025.

📍 Barnett Park: 4801 West Colonial Drive
📍 Centro recreacional de Goldenrod: 4863 North Goldenrod Road
Información: bit.ly/44MJgnh
HSN: bit.ly/4hb3n2v
Clima: bit.ly/3POHxWB

💭 Ever felt exhausted after the holidays, even if things went “well”? Here’s why.After weeks of overstimulation and anti...
12/29/2025

💭 Ever felt exhausted after the holidays, even if things went “well”? Here’s why.

After weeks of overstimulation and anticipation, your brain experiences a dopamine drop, the same “come down” that happens after a high-adrenaline event.

According to Harvard Medical School, when dopamine levels fall quickly, you can feel tired, sad, or unmotivated. Add disrupted sleep and sugar spikes, and your nervous system feels overloaded.

💡 How to recover:

Hydrate and limit caffeine for two days.
Take a 20-minute walk to boost serotonin.
Journal your emotions, even “letdown” is valid.

At Broken Wings, we help clients understand these patterns and reset through trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, and emotional regulation tools that restore calm from the inside out.

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando (Narcoossee & Conway Gardens) • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne (Viera)

🕊️ You can’t always think your way out of anxiety, but you can breathe your way out.The vagus nerve is the main pathway ...
12/27/2025

🕊️ You can’t always think your way out of anxiety, but you can breathe your way out.

The vagus nerve is the main pathway between your brain and body, it tells your heart, lungs, and gut when to calm down.
When you breathe deeply or hum softly, you activate this nerve, signaling the brain: It’s safe now.

According to research published in the Frontiers in Neuroscience Journal (2023), stimulating the vagus nerve improves mood, reduces anxiety, and even lowers inflammation.

💡 Try this grounding tool:
1️⃣ Inhale for 4 seconds.
2️⃣ Exhale slowly for 6–8 seconds.
3️⃣ Repeat 5 times.
Your heart rate drops, your muscles soften, and your brain rewires for safety.

At Broken Wings, we integrate brain–body techniques into therapy, combining evidence-based science with compassion so you can retrain your nervous system toward peace.

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando (Narcoossee & Conway Gardens) • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne (Viera)

How to Check In on a Friend 🤝Checking in saves lives. The CDC and Su***de Prevention Resource Center confirm that regula...
12/26/2025

How to Check In on a Friend 🤝

Checking in saves lives. The CDC and Su***de Prevention Resource Center confirm that regular contact and empathy are key protective factors against self-harm.

💬 “Hey, I was thinking about you.” That one text can change everything.

When someone seems off:
💛 “You’ve been on my mind, how are you really?”
🕊️ “Want to talk or take a walk?”
💬 “You’re not alone, even if it feels like it.”

At Broken Wings, we teach families and communities how to have safe, compassionate conversations about mental health. Connection is prevention.

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando (Narcoossee & Conway Gardens) • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne (Viera)

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12/25/2025

If someone you love is having a tough time this holiday season, reaching out for support can help. 💜

The 988 Lifeline is here 24/7 for you and the people you care about.

Call or text 988, or chat online at 988lifeline.org.

🎁 The best gift this year isn’t under the tree, it’s your peace.Today, pause. Breathe. Notice the moment.Happiness isn’t...
12/24/2025

🎁 The best gift this year isn’t under the tree, it’s your peace.

Today, pause. Breathe. Notice the moment.
Happiness isn’t about perfect decorations or endless to-do lists, it’s about presence.

🕊️ Three reminders for your heart today:

You don’t have to do everything.
You are allowed to rest without guilt.
You are enough, just as you are, right now.

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando (Narcoossee & Conway Gardens) • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne (Viera)

How To Calm Yourself with Kintsugi’s Calm-Down Jar 🦋🌈 Hi friends! I’m Kintsugi the Butterfly — let’s make a Calm-Down Ja...
12/23/2025

How To Calm Yourself with Kintsugi’s Calm-Down Jar 🦋

🌈 Hi friends! I’m Kintsugi the Butterfly — let’s make a Calm-Down Jar together!

Sometimes our feelings swirl around like glitter in a storm! When we shake a Calm-Down Jar, the sparkles dance, and then slowly settle, just like our feelings when we breathe slowly.

You’ll need:
🫙 A clear jar + water + glitter + glue + food coloring
✨ Shake it and watch the sparkles fall = practice calm!

When the glitter rests, so can you. 💛

At Broken Wings, we help kids (and parents!) learn fun tools to handle big emotions, build confidence, and talk about feelings safely.

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando (Narcoossee & Conway Gardens) • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne (Viera)

💬 Real strength is asking for help before it breaks you.In Florida, men are nearly 3 times more likely to die by su***de...
12/22/2025

💬 Real strength is asking for help before it breaks you.

In Florida, men are nearly 3 times more likely to die by su***de than women, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Yet fewer than 25 % of men seek therapy when struggling with stress, anger, or depression.

💭 Society teaches men to “stay strong,” but mental strength is about self-awareness, not silence.

At our Broken Wings counseling & therapy center, we help men process pressure, identity, fatherhood, and emotional fatigue in safe, judgment-free sessions.
It’s not weakness to open up, it’s wisdom. 🕊️

📞 (321) 701-3064 🌐 www.brokenwings.org
📍 Orlando • Lakeland • Bradenton • Melbourne

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Orlando, FL
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Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

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It all began in the garden......

This is my story. It all began in a community garden with my clients in the summer of 2014. God drew me to this picture above of the butterfly. The butterfly had a ripped wing and God spoke Broken Wings to my spirit, but that is all the Lord had given me at that time. I went home later that day and pondered what I had seen and heard and hid it in my heart.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Tammy Carvalho. I am a licensed mental health counselor with the State of Florida. During the summer of 2014, I was the Director of Operations/Mental Health Counselor for an outpatient clinic for adults who suffered from anxiety and or depression. My clients and I were out in a community garden. This particular day was like any other, but this was not a ordinary day. This day would now be my song.

Fast forward several months, I was home sick on Christmas Eve with the stomach flu. My husband was in South Africa burying his dad. Then, I got the life changing phone call from my father. Jimbo, my brother, died of a he**in overdose! I thought to myself, “God, can this all really be happening to me right now?” My husband immediately flew home from burying his dad in South Africa and we took the next flight up to NJ for my brother’s funeral. It was at this time my husband and I knew Broken Wings was about Jimbo and remembering him. At the funeral we dedicated Broken Wings Ministry, a 501c3 non profit organization, to help people like my brother.

I’m praising my savior all the day long! Growing up my brother had extreme anxiety and depression along with trauma he couldn’t escape from. He would use his drug of choice to numb his pain. We begged him to come out of his house to try and love on him. However, he wouldn’t budge. His home was a safe place. We wanted him to try and go to AA meetings. He did go one time, but couldn’t return due to his social anxiety. He also had another darkness, his he**in use that none of us knew about. We offered to pay for residential treatment centers and to exhaust all of our assets to try and save him but in the end, it was his choice and he didn’t want to go.