Selah Trauma Counseling Center

11/21/2025

Pressure doesn’t tend to invite safety. There’s just as much healing that can happen in laughter as there is in challenging and changing thoughts, behavior, and patterns.

The greatest thing we can do for ourselves is to stop using trauma healing to

- overwhelm our nervous system
- make ourselves into a self-improvement project
- avoid life
- pressure ourselves
- avoid learning how to meet our needs or have a boundary
- judge or label our patterns and behaviours, ours or others

Trauma healing is a sacred process. The sooner you understand and live from this truth, the more capacity to heal.

If you want to deepen your foundation of clarity, attunement, and embodied safety, not just to heal your past, but to finally feel and live with presence, trust, and ease, my new course, Safe to Feel, was created to guide you there.

Comment SAFE or visit my profile to start your journey.

Love,
Ally.

11/18/2025

11/17/2025

At 2INgage, we believe every child deserves to feel the magic of Christmas. Many children in foster care face the season without the comfort of family traditions or the excitement of gifts under the tree. That’s where our community comes in. Whether through donating gifts, contributing funds, or s...

11/17/2025

Grief coexists with everyday life: the ups, downs, and everything between. The holiday season can amplify what’s missing with so much focus on family.

A brief invitation to remember, the love you show yourself through your grief is love for them too. Grief and joy can exist in the same breath.

Lots of big inhales and long exhales. Wishing you gentleness.

11/14/2025

A huge, heartfelt ¡felicidades! to Nef for earning her LCSW!

Becoming a licensed clinical social worker meant completing an additional 3,000 hours post graduate school, under supervision. Basically the equivalent of watching The Office start-to-finish 40 times or diving into thousands of hours of true-crime marathons. (And honestly… she probably could’ve solved half those cases herself.)

During this time, I’ve watched littles leave her office with their heads held high, postpartum Moms feel seen and heard, and the weight of grief lightened when someone doesn’t have to carry it alone. As an LCSW, she joins over a century of social workers (since the late 1800s!) who have shaped communities, advocated for families, and held space for healing.

Her dedication, corazón, cultural and community pride, and steady presence make our practice brighter every single day.

Today the Dundie goes to Nef! We’re so wildly proud of you!

11/14/2025

I’m convinced that compassion is simply kindness with boundaries. It’s not so hard to give away. Much harder to receive and/or turn inward.

You are deserving of kindness though. One small pause. A gentle movement. Or a loud Ha breath full of energy.

You’ve got this. We believe in you.

11/13/2025

The little voice inside our heads can get carried away sometimes! For anyone that needs it today, don’t forget to show yourself some love too ✨🤍

11/12/2025

11/10/2025

With November highlighting National Adoption Month and today World Orphan Day, a peek at the statistics is quite sobering whether it’s within your local area, state, country or worldwide.

We are biologically driven to need other humans for survival. Not a want, but a need. When attach cries go unnoticed, a host of problems develop that love alone doesn’t resolve. Behaviors are communication, the surface level seen while there is much hidden below.

Adoption and permanent placement is a both/and with layers of grief, identity, and belonging highlighted. There are many psychologically homeless adults and many more adults who’ve lost both parent/carers literally and sometimes figuratively facing the world alone.

Invitation: Pause, long exhale. We all have wounds invisible to the outside making it easy to forget there is a whole world around you, not just the voices living rent-free & contributing to your feeling small. Invite your shoulders back, chest open, gaze and chin up. To your ability, stretch your arms wide and take up space. Notice if your body wants to move, rock or spin. Notice the sun & the air on your skin with curiosity. Maybe you hear birds or insects if you’re outside? Notice your thoughts and any shifts after a good stretch.

A reminder that you aren’t alone. A reminder to offer a kind word to a stranger, a few longer exhales when someone is irritating you, and the knowledge that many adults are psychologically homeless and orphaned too.

Wishing the world gentleness.

*A brief reminder for post adoption and permanency needs, we are able to provide free trauma counseling. Call/text 940.536.0588 for openings and availability for a consult!

11/08/2025

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