Angel Coleman, LMSW

12/25/2025

Show up for your friends and loved ones when you can. Grief can sneak up, especially during the holidays. These tips can help you navigate tough conversations. Make sure to save this post for later!

12/25/2025

thinking of you ⭐️

12/25/2025

✨️✨️Merry Christmas 🎅🏾 🎄 ✨️✨️

12/20/2025

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🧰 https://www.theottoolbox.com/sensory-coping-strategies-for-kids/
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🧰https://www.theottoolbox.com/calm-down-corner/
🧰https://www.theottoolbox.com/the-size-of-the-problem-activity-ideas/
🧰https://www.theottoolbox.com/the-limbic-system-and-function/

12/20/2025

Today is Winter Mental Health & Wellness Awareness Day and December is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Awareness Month. Winter can be tough. , let’s promote connection, coping, and community care. ❄️

12/17/2025

12/12/2025

The holidays aren't easy for everyone, and if you're struggling right now, I see you. I'm genuinely proud of you for showing up and doing your best.

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12/12/2025

Inner strength is not about holding yourself together at all times. It is the quiet knowing that even when life pulls you apart, you have the courage to gather your pieces with tenderness instead of shame. It is understanding that breaking does not make you weak. It makes you human. And choosing to rise again makes you powerful.

Real strength lives in the soft places. In the way you choose hope after disappointment. In the way you keep your heart open even after it has been wounded. In the way you learn to trust yourself again, slowly and honestly. It is the belief that your spirit was never meant to stay shattered, that healing is your birthright, and that every time you rebuild, you become someone wiser, deeper, and more whole.

You do not have to be unbreakable. You only have to remember that you are rebuildable.

12/12/2025

Gratitude does not wait for life to be flawless. It breathes inside the ordinary. It grows in the quiet moments you almost overlook, the ones that whisper that your life is still unfolding in ways you cannot yet see. It lives in the warmth of morning light, in the softness of a kind word, in the stillness that reminds you that who you are today is not your final form.

Gratitude is the shift that happens when you stop searching for perfect days and start noticing the sacred pieces of the imperfect ones. It is the gentle awareness that even in seasons of waiting, healing, or rebuilding, something in you is still moving forward. You are still learning. You are still expanding. You are still becoming.

And that alone is worth pausing for.

12/11/2025

Confidence is not born from certainty. It is born from courage. It grows in the quiet moments when you decide to trust yourself even as doubt tries to pull you backwards. It is choosing movement over perfection, curiosity over fear, and faith over the need to control every outcome. Confidence is not having the entire map. It is believing that you can handle the journey, one step at a time.

The truth is, you are not meant to see the whole path before you begin. If you did, you would never learn the strength that comes from walking it. You would never discover the resilience that rises in you when things don’t go as planned. You would never feel the deep pride that comes from realizing you kept going when you were afraid. Confidence is built through motion, through showing up again and again, through proving to yourself that even without perfect clarity, you are capable.

Your next step is enough. It will lead you exactly where you need to go.

12/11/2025

This time of year can be such a difficult time for so many of us. The holidays, whether you celebrate them or not, are all around us and may seem inescapable. December for those of us in the snowy regions sort of seems quiet in many ways when then snow is a fresh fallen blanket… but December also has a way of turning up the volume on so many things. If you are struggling, and finding the noise of it all overwhelming, please reach out… reach out to someone here on the page, to a friend, to a loved one, to someone safe in your life. If you know someone who may struggle during this time, please PLEASE reach out and check on them!! Anyone be it a family member, a friend or work colleague, even an acquaintance… if they seem distant, or appear off in some way, check in with them. Don’t pressure them to share, but offer to sit with them even if they don’t want to share. Just reaching out and checking on someone can make all the difference in the world. Be kind folks — to yourself and to others. Kindness is FREE!
~Deb 🩷