Catherine Quiring Counseling

Catherine Quiring Counseling I am a Licensed Counselor, reformed people-pleaser, and neurodivergent exvangelical. Individual counseling
Assertiveness and healthy boundaries group
Adults

I help people who feel and care deeply to reconnect to their inner wisdom, reclaim their playfulness, and liberate through collective care.

You know how to be kind to everyone else.What would it mean to finally be kind to yourself?Become Your Own Best Friend i...
12/17/2025

You know how to be kind to everyone else.
What would it mean to finally be kind to yourself?

Become Your Own Best Friend is an 8-week journey to transform your inner critic into your inner ally—through IFS, community, and a whole lot of gentleness.

No fighting yourself. No years of analysis. Just a supported path back home to you.

✨ We begin in January
🕯️ Enrollment closes Dec 22
🔗 Link in bio to apply

For empaths, HSPs, people-pleasers & perfectionists who are ready to stop being so hard on themselves.

Weekly on Zoom • Free & Open to AllWe're starting tomorrow, Friday, 11/21/25 at 1pm CT.Writing as prayer. Writing as por...
11/21/2025

Weekly on Zoom • Free & Open to All
We're starting tomorrow, Friday, 11/21/25 at 1pm CT.

Writing as prayer. Writing as portal. Writing as return to self.

Join me for a weekly practice where we gather in sacred space to write—not for perfection or publication, but for soul connection. These sessions are simple: a brief time of tuning into your creative fire, a prompt to center your writing, silent writing time, and witnessing each others’ writing if you feel moved to share. These are not writing lessons or writing critique. This is soul space to listen to ourselves and each other through writing.

No experience required. No pressure to share. Just you, your pen (or keyboard), and permission to let your soul speak.

This is writing as medicine. Writing as remembering. Writing as coming home.

Sign up to receive Zoom link here or in bio: https://catherinequiring.kit.com/c8dcd8df21

I hope to see you there!

11/13/2025

Secret Places of Solitude by Catherine Quiring, catherinequiring.com/books

11/12/2025

The inhale by Catherine Quiring, catherinequiring.com/books

11/11/2025

Feel by Catherine Quiring, catherinequiring.com/books

11/10/2025

Our souls sigh by Catherine Quiring, catherinequiring.com/books

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission"This hit different when I realized how much of my life I'd...
11/09/2025

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission"

This hit different when I realized how much of my life I'd spent waiting:

Waiting for approval before I pursued what I wanted.
Waiting for validation before I trusted my own knowing.
Waiting for someone to say "yes, you're allowed" before I took up space.
Waiting for permission to be fully myself.

Here's what I've learned:

Greatness doesn't come from asking permission.
It comes from trusting yourself enough to move without it.

The people who changed your life didn't wait for approval.
The art that moved you wasn't focus-grouped first.
The ideas that shifted culture came from people who acted before anyone said they could.

If you're waiting for permission to:
- Start the thing
- Leave the thing
- Create the thing
- Be the thing
- Say the thing
- Trust yourself

This is it.

You don't need anyone's approval to pursue what's calling you.
You don't need consensus to follow your knowing.
You don't need permission to be great.

You just need to stop waiting and start moving.

What are you waiting for permission to do?

Drop a 🔥 if you're done asking.

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You don't have to choose between deep connection and staying intact 💙If you're an empath or highly sensitive person, you...
11/08/2025

You don't have to choose between deep connection and staying intact 💙

If you're an empath or highly sensitive person, you know what it's like to absorb everyone's emotions. To lose yourself in relationships. To be chronically exhausted from taking on what isn't yours.

**The goal is flexible boundaries you consciously control—like a dial from 1-10:**

**1-3 (Very open):** Safe intimate relationships, therapy, chosen spiritual practice

**4-6 (Moderately filtered):** Friendships, work, familiar social situations

**7-9 (Significantly filtered):** Crowds, strangers, overwhelming environments, when depleted

**10 (Closed):** Active protection during crisis, trauma processing, recovery

Most people with porous boundaries stay at 1-3 all the time by default.

The work is learning to consciously adjust based on safety, context, and your current capacity.

**In this comprehensive guide, I share:**

**Somatic practices:** Daily grounding, post-interaction reset, energy shielding, somatic "no" practice, breath as boundary

**Advanced frameworks:** Juliane Taylor Shore's Three Boundaries (External, Psychological "Jello Wall," Containing) and Ora North's Energetic Boundary work (Voluntary Blindness, Shadow Work)

**Identity anchoring:** Morning pages, core values documentation, solo practices to prevent codependency

You can keep the profound connection, spiritual depth, intuitive knowing, and healing capacity.

AND you can stay intact. You can know who you are. You can protect yourself.

Full guide on the blog (link in bio) with specific practices you can start today 💙

For empaths and HSPs: Where do you struggle most with boundaries?

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"my creative life is my deepest prayer"— Sue Monk KiddWhat if prayer isn't something you DO—it's something you ARE? Some...
11/08/2025

"my creative life is my deepest prayer"
— Sue Monk Kidd

What if prayer isn't something you DO—it's something you ARE? Something you CREATE?

What if the prayers that matter most aren't the ones you learned to recite, but the ones that pour out when you:

- Put pen to paper and the truth spills out
- Move your body and feel connected to something larger
- Make something with your hands and lose track of time
- Sit in sacred silence and listen to what emerges
- Create beauty from pain, meaning from chaos, connection from loneliness

What if THAT'S prayer?

Not the performance.
Not the script.
Not the approved words said in the proper way.

But the creative act itself—
the making,
the expressing,
the allowing something to move through you that's bigger than you.

You don't need permission to pray this way.
You don't need theology.
You don't need to call it prayer if that word doesn't fit anymore.

But if your creative life is where you feel most connected—
to yourself, to others, to Mystery, to the divine, to life force itself—

then yes.

That's your deepest prayer.

And it's already holy.

What does prayer look like for you? 🎨✨

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Identity fusion is a psychological phenomenon where personal identity and group identity become so deeply merged that cr...
11/07/2025

Identity fusion is a psychological phenomenon where personal identity and group identity become so deeply merged that criticism of the group feels like a personal attack.

This helps explain M*GA loyalty—and much more.

The markers of fusion:

**Visceral defense response:** Criticism of Tr*mp triggers the emotional intensity of someone whose family has been insulted—because psychologically, it is personal.

**Tribal symbols as self-expression:** The M*GA hat signals "This is who I am," not merely "This is who I'm voting for."

**Relationship ruptures:** When politics are fused with identity, someone rejecting your political views feels like they're rejecting you.

**Reality distortion for group coherence:** Contradictory information doesn't update beliefs—it triggers defensive reasoning.

**Why fusion happens:**
- A leader who validates identity threats
- Shared sense of persecution
- Repeated collective experiences (rallies as fusion rituals)
- Clear boundaries and opposition
- Identity under threat narrative

**The self-reinforcing cycle:**
External criticism → Defensive response → Group solidarity strengthens → Identity becomes more fused → Criticism feels more threatening → Stronger defensive response

Each cycle makes fusion deeper and more resistant to outside influence.

Understanding identity fusion doesn't mean accepting its consequences. But it does suggest that presenting facts or better arguments won't dissolve these bonds.

You cannot reason someone out of an identity they didn't reason themselves into.

Full post on the blog (link in bio) about the psychology of M*GA loyalty—and what it means for democracy.

Have you experienced identity fusion in your own life? Where?

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For those of us who learned to stay silent—to swallow our words, to make ourselves small, to believe our voice didn't ma...
11/07/2025

For those of us who learned to stay silent—to swallow our words, to make ourselves small, to believe our voice didn't matter—speaking can feel like a radical act.

But here's what I've learned:

Your voice is a healing instrument.
Not just for others. For yourself.

When you speak:
- Soothing words that comfort and calm
- Presence and power that claim space unapologetically
- Healing and wholeness that name what's true

You become medicine. For yourself and for others.

Your voice carries weight.
Your spirit has presence.
Your words create worlds.

You don't have to be perfectly healed to speak.
You don't have to have it all figured out.
You don't need permission from anyone else.

Just be here. And speak.

What needs to be spoken through you right now?

What truth, what grief, what joy, what boundary has been waiting for your voice to give it form?

Drop a 🗣️ if you're reclaiming your voice.

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6706 N 9th Avenue A1
Pensacola, FL
32504

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Website

https://linktr.ee/catherinequiring, https://catherinequiring.com/

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