Anne Kuhlke-Lee, LPC, PMHC

12/31/2025

A Willingness to Keep Showing Up

I step into this new year
gently, without resolutions,
with just a simple willingness,
to keep going,
to keep moving forward.

Not the bright, declarative kind of decision
that arrives with banners and promises,
but the quieter kind,
the one that asks for nothing grand.

No transformation.
Just an honest effort
to place one foot in front of the other,
without needing it to be a victory march.

To keep going isn’t strength.
It’s letting the days arrive as they are,
some heavy,
some hollow,
some unexpectedly kind.

It’s allowing grief, fatigue, memory, and love
to share the same room,
without insisting that any of them leave.

There is no list.
No reinvention.
No deadline for becoming someone new.
There is only the steady choice
to remain present,
to trust that willingness itself
is an act of grace.

So this year begins
not with resolve, but with intention:
the intention to stay present,
the intention to try again tomorrow,
the intention to simply keep showing up.

~ 'A Willingness to Keep Showing Up' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olya Haydamaka

12/16/2025

11/10/2025

10/16/2025

This October, we're honoring every kind of loss. To the moms who’ve walked this road — you’re seen, you’re loved, and your loss matters. 💗

10/13/2025

October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Memorial Health, along with hundreds of families across America, will participate in remembrance services to honor those babies who die each year through pregnancy loss, stillbirth or newborn death. Join us on Sunday, October 19 at 6:30pm at Tom Triplett Park in Pooler for our Walk to Remember.

10/08/2025

"The incompatibility between motherhood and a sense of control is apparent to most new moms, almost immediately. It feels incomprehensible for moms to cling to a desire for control and autonomy while they simultaneously struggle to connect with and take care of their dependent infant.

If motherhood temporarily robs women of a sense of independence, while they readily or reluctantly surrender to this imposed state, it is reasonable that they would try to recoup this independence along the way.

The timing and energy of this effort to reclaim a lost sense of self is different for each woman, depending on variables such as personality, history, current life circumstances, and environmental/social demands, for instance.

The point is that postpartum women, whether depressed or not, are required to reconstruct themselves, to a certain extent, as a function of the demands of motherhood. It necessitates a practical, emotional, psychological and extremely personal transformation.

When depression and anxiety impose extraordinary distress, it can feel impossible to move forward. When depression hits, there is an abrupt disturbance that impedes the transition to motherhood. Mothers who trust the natural flow of life expect this passage to develop naturally, but instead, are be left feeling cheated, enraged and misunderstood."

10/05/2025

👻🎃 Some truths can haunt us, and some can heal us. Both can exist at the same time. When we learn to hold these truths, we can finally break free from cycles that no longer serve us. 💀✨

👉 Read more in Break The Cycle Of Generational Conflict here: https://reachoutrecovery.com/break-the-cycle/

09/24/2025

True Story. 📖

09/16/2025

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We have had over 700 votes for this year's Mom Approved Awards!! Remember, voting ends November 1st so get those votes in so we can celebrate businesses and providers who go above and beyond for families of the low country!

https://www.themomcollectivesavannah.com/vote

09/11/2025

✨️Perimenopause Workshop in October!📣
🗓️ Sunday, October 19th at 4 PM
📍 Savannah Counseling & Wellness | 1104 E. 37th St
💸 Donation-based | ✨ All are welcome

Let’s have a real talk about perimenopause! Whether you’re already in it, past it, or just curious about what’s ahead — this is for YOU. 💛

Join SCW for another donation-based Wellness Workshop featuring Meli Kirkwood MS, CNS, LDN, CPT and Jacqueline Adams LMSW, MA, PhD. Canidate for a community-centered workshop on:

🌿 Physiology, nutrition + lifestyle support for perimenopause
🌿 Tools to regulate cortisol + stress
🌿 A gentle somatic experience to ground the body
🌿 Space to feel seen, ask questions, and connect

🍊 Refreshments provided by !

🌈 This is an affirming, inclusive space open to women, nonbinary folks, and loved ones to come and learn together.

💬 Bring a friend, a journal, your questions — and come as you are 🫶

Tag a friend who needs this 💌

🫂 Pay what you can or use the promo code on Eventbrite to attend for free. Donations go toward chair rentals, etc and support us being able to continue providing low-cost & free offers for the community!

🎟️ Save your seat via Eventbrite : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-health-in-perimenopause-tickets-1676012471419?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=PAb21jcAMwE2JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp0LklaHdDyetkfW-yXbBgiGIcztimAlRTNKB26lPS3sz_SneJXtQVEExVVii_aem_PEODD_BM3L7eFTRQP2Kvnw

08/27/2025

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