Mindful Healing

01/01/2026

Stepping into 2026 with calm, clarity, and mindful healing. 💙

12/30/2025

When Grief Shows Up in Dreams 💙

Sometimes grief speaks through dreams. When emotions have been held back for a long time, the mind may use symbols to process what the heart wasn’t ready to feel. Intensity can give way to growth. Emotions that once felt stuck or heavy may begin to shift and soften.

This doesn’t mean grief is returning—it often means healing is happening. When the nervous system feels safe, deeper emotions are allowed to surface, be felt, and transform. Healing doesn’t always happen while we’re awake.

Unresolved emotions can be stirred by many moments—changes in routine, memories, quiet pauses, or reminders of connection and loss. The holidays are only one of many times this may happen.

Be kind to yourself when these feelings arise. Give yourself permission to feel without judgment, to move at your own pace, and to trust that allowing space for your emotions is part of healing.

12/25/2025

Wishing you a peaceful Christmas season.
May this time bring rest, warmth, and moments of calm. 🌲

—Mindful Healing 💙

12/15/2025

Welcome, Wayne! 🌿

We’re excited to introduce Wayne Powell, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Registered Supervisor with the Virginia Board, who is now seeing clients at our practice. 💚

Wayne is passionate about creating a safe, supportive space where you can explore life’s challenges, deepen self-understanding, and work toward meaningful change at your own pace.

Wayne offers both in-person and online (telehealth) sessions, giving you the flexibility to choose what feels most comfortable and supportive for your needs. He welcomes individuals seeking clarity, balance, and emotional well-being and looks forward to partnering with you on your journey.

Please join us in welcoming Wayne to our team — we’re grateful to have him here!

Read his bio below to learn more about his experience and therapeutic approach. 👇
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I was born on the beautiful tropical island of Jamaica, where I completed my undergraduate degree. I completed my graduate studies and residency in Virginia. I have provided mental health services in both my native country and the United States for over twenty-two (25) years. These experiences have broadened my sensitivity to issues that are culturally influenced and others that transcend cultural/ethnic barriers. I combine my personality, international counseling experience and passion to see lives change as I engage my profession. I am tri-lingual (Spanish, English and Patois, which is my Jamaican dialect). The ability to communicate in three languages has proven to be an asset as I "reach out" to the various populations I encounter. I am currently a licensed professional counselor in the state of Virginia. I am a registered supervisor with the Virginia Board of Counseling. I provide clinical supervision for residents in their pursuits to become licensed professional counselors and interns for completion of their graduate degrees. I am also certified in Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) which is an intervention geared at adolescents with a primary diagnosis of substance abuse. I have used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for several years in my interventions with clients, as I believe that our thoughts impact our emotions, which drive our actions.

12/12/2025

Even without photographs, memory finds a way to stay. 💙

What Remains When Images Are Gone

I worry I will forget—
the moments that did not yet know
how precious they were.
The ordinary days, once unnoticed,
the things that mattered
before I knew to name them.

When photographs are lost,
grief arrives quietly—
not only for the images,
but for the fear that the memories
have vanished with them.

Yet memory is not only something we see.
It lives in the way a place still feels familiar,
in how time returns us to a season,
in the body’s quiet knowing
of what once mattered.

The memories I make today
will not disappear with age.
They will soften, change their edges,
and live on as feeling,
as instinct,
as the shape of who I am becoming.

Even when images are gone,
nothing truly precious is lost.
What mattered remains—
carried forward,
not always remembered by sight,
but by how it continues to live within us.

💙 Grief invites us to honor what mattered and notice how it still lives on.
-mindful healing-

12/10/2025

Things I Didn’t Know Yet 💙

I keep wondering what would change if I forgave myself for things that were never meant to happen.

Not the obvious stuff.
The quiet things.
The moments I replay when I’m tired.
The decisions I judge with information I didn’t have at the time.

I hold myself to a standard that never existed in real life — only in hindsight. I expect the past version of me to have known what the present version knows. And then I punish myself for being human inside moments that were undoable.

Some things didn’t go wrong.
They just went differently than I needed.

Some things weren’t failures.
They were limits.

Maybe forgiveness here isn’t a grand moment.
Maybe it’s just a small release.
An honest one.

Maybe it sounds like:
“I didn’t know what I know now.”
“I did what I could with what I had.”
“It still hurts, but I don’t need to bleed for it forever.”

I don’t think forgiveness fixes the past.
I think it gives the present a little air.

And maybe that’s enough for today.

12/06/2025

Listening to Your Own Voice 💚

For years, many of us walk with echoes in our heads—old judgments, careless words, and moments that taught us to doubt ourselves. These are the voices of the past, loud with fear and dressed as truth.

But healing begins when you notice a quieter sound: your own voice. It speaks with honesty, not cruelty. It knows your strength better than your mistakes.

Each time you choose to listen to yourself instead of yesterday, you reclaim today. And slowly, the past loses its volume while your life finds its music.

12/02/2025

Quick truth about AI and therapy 🌿

AI can be a useful tool for journaling, reflection, and learning coping skills. It can help you organize your thoughts and feel a little less alone in the moment.

But it’s not a therapist.
It can’t replace human understanding, connection, or real support.

Think of AI as a tool, not a solution.
Healing still happens through real conversations and real people.

If you’re in Virginia and looking for support, we’re accepting teletherapy clients.

Visit our website at Mindfulhealinginc.com to learn more or book a session.

Mindful Healing 💙

Mindful Healing, provides a safe space for healing from trauma, anxiety, depression, and more. Call today to schedule an appointment!

12/02/2025

Fear came softly,
then left on quiet feet—
I stayed, and found my breath was enough.
-mindful healing-

11/27/2025

11/24/2025

Where Pain Learns to Speak 💙

Pain has a strange way of teaching language—
the kind spoken not with sound,
but with awareness.

It draws a line where you didn’t know a boundary belonged.
It puts weight where you’ve been pretending to feel nothing.
It pulls buried truths to the surface,
shaping them into sentences you never planned to say.

Pain isn’t a poet,
but it does sharpen your honesty.
It turns whispers into declarations,
turns discomfort into direction,
turns silence into something with shape and intention.

And when you finally speak—
not out of fear,
but out of recognition—
your voice arrives clearer than it ever did before.

-mindful healing-

11/21/2025

This time of year can stir old aches, but it can also open small doors to healing you didn’t know were waiting. 💙