Bluebird Counseling Services

02/18/2026

🧠✨ When your nervous system is overwhelmed, language goes offline.

This carousel gives you co-regulation scripts you can use immediately — in conflict, in parenting moments, or when you’re simply flooded.

Because sometimes the most powerful tool isn’t insight… it’s having the right words ready.

Save this for later. Practice when you’re calm. Borrow when you’re overwhelmed.

What situations do you need scripts for next — conflict, parenting, anxiety, shutdown, ADHD overwhelm? Drop it below. 👇

RelationshipSkills

02/10/2026

Regulation isn’t pretending you’re okay.
It’s staying connected to yourself while you’re not okay.

Suppression keeps you functional short-term—but it often shows up later as anxiety, shutdown, irritability, or exhaustion.

Try this today:
Name what you feel + where you feel it + one need you have.
That’s regulation.

02/05/2026

1) Lower the room temp (reduce stimuli):
• pause extra conversations
• step away from noise/bright lights
• reduce decision-making (choose one next step only)
• silence notifications
• slow your pace (move like you have time)

2) Add warmth (soothing + safety cues):
• longer exhale than inhale x3
• feet press into the ground 10 seconds
• hand to chest or belly (gentle pressure)
• warm drink / shower
• supportive voice: “I’m safe enough right now.”

If you keep “failing” at regulation, you may not need more discipline.
You may need better temperature control.

Save this for your next overwhelm moment.

02/03/2026

Your nervous system doesn’t wake up thinking, “How can we thrive today?”
It wakes up asking, “How do we stay safe?”

After trauma, safety strategies can look like procrastination, control, shutdown, overexplaining, or staying ready for the next problem. That doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means your body learned patterns that once protected you.

Healing isn’t about forcing your way into change. It’s about teaching your body—through repetition—that you’re safe enough now to try something different.

This week, choose one predictable anchor and repeat it daily. Tiny, consistent safety signals are how your nervous system updates.

Save this. Share it with someone who mistakes protection for “failure.”

01/30/2026

If you overtalk: your body is seeking control.”
Try: sip water + slow your pace + one sentence at a time.

“If you go quiet: shutdown is protection.”
Try: “I need 5 minutes. I’m not ignoring you.”

“If you scroll/clean: your system wants regulation through distraction/control.”
Try: 2-minute timer + return to body (feet + exhale).

“If you pick fights: protest for connection.”
If you numb: overload.
Try: “I need reassurance” OR “I need low stimulation.”

01/28/2026

01/27/2026

WE PLAN TO BE OPEN TOMORROW ✅

Please check with your individual practitioner to confirm.

Shelley will be in person if you are able to make it to the office

If you’re concerned, you can:
• Switch to Telehealth
• Reschedule

Message me to let me know what you prefer.
Stay safe out there!

01/25/2026

Bluebird Counseling Services typically follows local school closures (usually WFISD). If schools are closed, our in-person offices are closed. You’re welcome to reschedule or switch to telehealth—just message your therapist with what you prefer. Please watch for updates on Facebook and email. Stay warm and safe.

01/22/2026

Trauma therapy terms can feel like subtitles to a movie you didn’t audition for.

We say: “window of tolerance.”
We mean: “the range where you can feel AND think without your body hitting the alarm.”

We say: “rupture and repair.”
We mean: “the moment you disconnect… and the skill of coming back.”

If any of these words have ever made you feel exposed, broken, or confused—this is for you.
You’re not “overreacting.” Your body is protecting you.

Save this for later. Comment the term you want translated next.

01/20/2026

Here I am thinking again...I am looking to chat with you who are GRADUATE INTERNS who have placement for your sites and those who do not have sites yet to see what tools you need to get ready for placement or to just not freak out about being in practicum and internship.
I know how hard this can be to even know what you need...so lets talk about it!! If you want to jump in the water with me and see what floats then comment and ill sent you a link for our chat. I know many of you have reached out and I think I can help.

Shelley

01/19/2026

If calm feels suspicious, you’re not ‘too much’—you’re trained.
Save this. If you’re stuck in this cycle, trauma therapy can help.

01/16/2026

Our community took a big hit this week.
The fight was fierce, hard and packed with emotion.
Bluebird sends our deepest condolences to the Mills family and our community and they start to process this huge loss.