Sankofa Counseling - Amanda M Wyatt, LLC

Sankofa Counseling - Amanda M Wyatt, LLC For 24 years, I have been honored to provide psychotherapy to individuals, groups and families.

I believe therapy is an investment in the Self, and that you’re never too old to create lasting, positive change.

Happy January 5th!!!41° & sunny feels downright balmy!Get yourself out for a walk or hike today! You won’t regret it!
01/05/2026

Happy January 5th!!!

41° & sunny feels downright balmy!

Get yourself out for a walk or hike today!

You won’t regret it!

Great post by LoveSecurely
01/05/2026

Great post by LoveSecurely

This!
01/05/2026

This!

01/04/2026

On your phone, begin a daily log of tiny, happy moments and watch them add up. Learn more tips from Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D. additu.de/tiny-wins

BOOM.Love this post by We Nurture Collective
01/04/2026

BOOM.
Love this post by We Nurture Collective

Have fear tactics become a way that you parent to get your child to listen?

Yes, I know that parenting can leave us frustrated and angry. We might even find ourselves using fear to get our child to listen but hears the thing, fear-based parenting actually damages your connection with your child.

Please hear me out because one day your child will not be so little and you won’t be able to control them using fear.

Right now using fear might get your child to stop the behavior that’s frustrating you but you run the risk of negatively impacting your relationship with them. You also run the risk of negatively impacting future relationships they will have with others as they will grow up believing that using fear as a tactic is part of being in a relationship.

Studies have shown that long-term effects of continual fear-based parenting can cause your child to have…
-Lower self-esteem,
-Anxiety,
-Become more susceptible to being bullied,
-Lack a healthy experience of healthy boundaries,
-Become aggressive and even Lie to you.

You are also teaching your child that your use of fear to get what you want is acceptable behavior.

What can you do?

First, ask yourself if your parenting approach is a good fit for your child. Is your child able to easily understand and respond to how you are parenting them. Maybe what needs to change is how you are parenting them.

Second, give your child the respect they deserve and you’ll get the respect you want and deserve. Speak to them with understanding and kindness and let this be the behavior you model.

Third, listen and be patient with your child as this gives them the opportunity to understand what you need from them. It can be hard to be patient especially when it takes a long time for your child to respond and listen. Your patience with them will teach them to be patient.

Fourth, reflect on whether fear-based parenting was how you were raised, how it made you feel and how you would have liked to have been parented.

To guide children without using fear, we need to put our focus on connection and release OUR FEAR of not always being in control.

Continued in comments 👇🏾

01/04/2026
Here’s a great post by The Contented Child, Child Wellbeing Consultancy
01/04/2026

Here’s a great post by The Contented Child, Child Wellbeing Consultancy

The return to school after Christmas can feel heavier than other transitions.
Weeks of connection, slower mornings, flexible routines and togetherness suddenly give way to separation, noise, structure and expectation.

If your child is showing more tears, worries, meltdowns or resistance right now, it isn’t a step backwards.
It’s a nervous system recalibrating from safety and connection back into demand.

You’re not doing anything wrong — and neither are they.

We’re sharing posts to help children transition back to school after the Christmas break.
Explore our recent posts and access our free downloadable resources to support regulation, reassurance and smoother mornings.









This!
01/03/2026

This!

As 2025 winds down, let this be your reminder:

Stop telling yourself it won’t happen.
Start doing the work to make it happen.

A new year doesn’t magically change your life - your decisions do.

You can create the life you dream about, starting today.

Raising Vibrations tells about the Wolf Moon.Take a read!
01/03/2026

Raising Vibrations tells about the Wolf Moon.
Take a read!

The Wolf Moon | January 3 2026.

This Full Moon in Cancer opens a tender, powerful threshold.

The Wolf Moon has always been linked to belonging, protection, and instinct —
not the loud kind of knowing,
but the quiet, ancient intelligence that lives in the body.

Under this Moon, emotions rise not to destabilise us,
but to tell the truth.

Cancer speaks to home, family, ancestry, and emotional safety.
Not the idea of home —
but the felt sense of where you soften.
Where your body exhales.
Where you no longer have to brace.

Opposite this Moon sits strong Capricorn energy — the structures, responsibilities, and lives many have been building through endurance alone.
This lunation holds the tension between what we feel and what we’ve carried,
between care and responsibility,
between survival and sustainability.

And it asks a different question:

✨ What if strength didn’t mean bracing?
✨ What if responsibility included care?

Under the Wolf Moon, you are called back to yourself.
To the part of you that knows how to listen in the dark.
To the instinct that doesn’t panic when the night stretches long,
because it trusts the ground beneath its feet.

This Moon does not ask you to rush.
It asks you to remember how to move by intuition instead of noise.
To trust the quiet signals rising from within.
To remember that strength is not always loud —
sometimes it is the steady breath that carries you forward, one step at a time.

There is courage available here — but it is a gentler courage.
One that no longer leads from old wounds, proving, or pressure,
but from self-trust.

Many are feeling a subtle re-orientation now…
away from holding it all together,
away from surviving at the expense of the self,
and toward protecting what truly matters.

The Wolf Moon honours those who endured.
Those who kept going when the road was unclear.
Those who learned how to survive —
and are now ready to live.

Like the wolf, you are both solitary and connected.
You walk your own path, yet you are never truly alone.

This is a Moon of:
• emotional maturity
• ancestral memory
• sacred loyalty
• redefining success so it includes the heart

Let this Moon illuminate:

🌕 Where have you grown strong enough to protect what truly matters?
🌕 Where does your inner world need care — not control — as we step into 2026?

This is not about doing more.
It is about choosing differently.
From the body.
From truth.
From safety.

You are guided.
You are guarded.
And you are exactly where you need to be.

✨ Wolf Moon Ritual
1. Create stillness
Find a quiet space. Light a candle or sit beneath the moon if possible. Take three slow, deep breaths.

2. Ground yourself
Place your feet firmly on the floor. Imagine roots growing from your soles deep into the Earth, anchoring you safely.

3. Reflect & release
Ask yourself: What no longer belongs in this new chapter?
Visualise these old energies dissolving under the moonlight.

4. Call back your power
Place a hand on your heart. Imagine your energy returning to you — whole, strong, and protected.

5. Set your intention
Decide how you wish to move through this year: with courage, discernment, and self-trust.

6. Close with gratitude
Thank the moon, the Earth, and yourself for this moment of alignment

🐺 Wolf Moon Affirmation
“I trust my instincts.
I honour my boundaries.
I walk forward protected, guided, and strong.
My energy is mine, and I use it wisely.”

*As we step into 2026 under this Wolf Moon,
I’m opening my work again for those who feel ready to choose differently.

I’m currently welcoming a small number of people into:
• The Sovereign Reset — a 6-week nervous system recalibration for those coming out of survival or long seasons of holding
• The Sovereign Woman Mentorship — a deeper, longer container for embodied leadership, regulation, and self-trust

I return to sessions from January 5.

If you’d like to explore working together, you can begin with a Leadership Ignition Call — a grounded conversation to feel into what’s aligned for you.

No urgency.
No pressure.
Just an honest invitation for those who feel the pull.***

Jo McCallum Raising Vibrations

**A small update for those who follow my work 🤍

Last year my original Instagram account was taken and couldn’t be recovered.
As a result, I’ve created a new account where I’m now sharing my current work, reflections, and nervous-system-led teachings.

👉

This is the space where I’m posting more regularly in 2026 as I continue this next chapter of my work.

If you’re on Instagram and would like to stay connected there, I’d love to have you with me.

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