Jannetta Marie LCSW

10/07/2025

Tonight marks the fifth week of my six-week parenting class, and I couldn’t be more excited! This week’s focus is all about discipline.

Discipline is not about punishment; it’s about teaching, guiding, and shaping a child’s behavior toward responsibility and self-control.
The word "discipline" actually comes from the Latin word "disciplina," meaning instruction or training.

Here are a few key reminders I want to share with all parents:
Teach rather than control.
Build character, not fear.
Help children make better choices next time.

Remember: “Discipline teaches — punishment hurts.”

09/18/2025

Trauma & The Brain — A New Insight

As many of you know, I specialize in trauma work. Right now, I’m participating in another in-depth training about how trauma impacts the brain, and I wanted to share something powerful I just learned.

Attention mothers: Trauma doesn’t always start after birth. Research shows it can begin in utero.
When a mother is in a state of chronic stress or dysregulation, her body produces higher levels of stress hormones (like cortisol). These hormones can cross the placenta, meaning the baby begins life already receiving signals of stress.

This doesn’t mean hope is lost; it means awareness is key.
With support, healing, and healthy regulation, both mothers and babies can move toward safety, balance, and resilience.

What are your thoughts on how early life experiences shape us? comment below

08/31/2025

“Conferences won’t heal a broken church, but prayer, fasting, and mental health awareness can.”
Right now, too many churches are facing scandals, including devastating allegations of s**ual abuse in leadership. At the same time, people are feeling more hopeless than ever in this political and cultural climate. What the church needs most isn’t another conference. It needs healing.
The truth is this: from pastors to lay members, mental health struggles are everywhere in the church. And because mental health awareness is often overlooked, too many suffer in silence, untreated and unsupported. When struggles go untreated, they don’t just disappear. They grow into mental illness.
This is why I believe mental health must become part of the church’s ministry.
📢 Coming Fall 2025: Mental Health Training for Church Leaders.
It’s time to bridge the gap between the church and mental health so the church can truly be a place of hope, healing, and restoration.

08/06/2025

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06/25/2025

Women's support group loading

06/22/2025

The recent shooting in Tulsa our Black community is deeper than Black-on-Black crime.
This is a **mental health/illness** and "trauma response issue".

It starts at home with what our children *see*.
Children learn how to manage stress, solve problems, and regulate their emotions by observing their parents. Key word: **watching**. If parents are overwhelmed, angry, shut down, or emotionally unavailable, children internalize that as their blueprint for life.

**A trauma response** is how the mind and body learn to survive in unsafe, chaotic, or emotionally painful environments. It can show up as anger, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, lashing out, shutting down, or even detachment.

Over **90% of the behaviors we see in our community are trauma responses**, but most of us have no idea.
Because many of us were never taught what mental health really means, we were just taught to **keep going**.
And now we’re raising kids in that same survival cycle.

**Black people, please**
Get a mental health therapist who looks like you.
Get someone who understands the weight of generational trauma and can help you walk into healing, not just survival.

We deserve better. Our children deserve better.
Let’s break this cycle, not repeat it. 💔🖤

02/08/2025

✔️ out my new podcast The kitchen table focusing on mental health and parenting.

The kitchen table holds deep cultural and emotional significance in the Black community. It’s more than just a place to eat—it’s a space for connection, stor...