Mindful Comeback Therapy

Mindful Comeback Therapy Registered Psychotherapist
"Making Therapy the New Norm"

06/04/2026

Stop 🛑 doing these today 🫣

1. Apologizing for having needs. Your nervous system learned that shrinking yourself kept you safe. It’s not a character flaw but has become a survival strategy.
2. Explaining yourself until someone believes you. You don’t need to build a case for your own feelings.
3. Waiting to feel ready before making a change. Readiness is a feeling. It comes after action, not before.
4. Replaying conversations trying to figure out what you did wrong. That’s anxiety doing a job it was never meant to do.
5. Calling yourself “too sensitive.” Your sensitivity is data. It’s telling you something real.
6. Helping people who wouldn’t help you. Notice what that pattern is costing you. Like for real.
7. Mistaking exhaustion for laziness. Your body is not failing you. It’s communicating with you.
8. Making yourself easier to be around by becoming harder to know. That’s not connection, You’re performing to feel safe.
9. Rushing past a hard emotion because sitting with it feels like giving up. Feeling it is not the same as being stuck in it.
10. Assuming everyone else is managing better than you. They are not. They are just quieter about it. Focus on you 👍🏼

Save this post as a reminder and share which one are you going to try to stop?

06/03/2026

She be chilling from day 1 coz I got her 🫶🏽

06/03/2026

Your therapist asks you something and instead of answering it right away you pause and say
“that’s a really good question” and then go silent for a moment.

Here’s what your therapist is thinking when that happens.
We’re not sitting there waiting impatiently.
We’re not thinking “why can’t they just answer.” That moment is actually one of our favorite moments in session.
Because that pause means your brain just hit a wall between what you’ve always told yourself and what might actually be true.
You’re not stalling, you’re recalculating.
Something we asked just disrupted a story you’ve been carrying tor a long time and your mind is scrambling to catch up.

When you say “that’s a really good question” what you’re really saying is “I’ve never let myself go there before.” & we hear that, We hear what’s underneath it.

In that silence we’re thinking “stay quiet. Don’t rescue them from this moment. This is where the shift happens.”
Because the answer that comes after that pause? It’s almost always the most honest thing you’ve said all session. It’s the thing that lives below the rehearsed version of your story.
Below the “I’m fine” and the “it’s not that deep.”
That pause is your nervous system catching up to what your mind is starting to understand.
Your body is feeling something before you have the words for it & that space between the question and your answer is where some of the deepest healing begins.

So if you’ve ever done this in therapy and felt awkward about it or thought you were wasting time just know your therapist was probably sitting there thinking “this is exactly where we need to be right now!”

That silence was never empty. It was you finally letting yourself think about something you’ve been avoiding. And that takes more bravery than most people will ever understand

Tag someone who would feel seen by this & if you want more of what therapy actually looks like from the other side of the room follow along because I share the stuff most therapists think but never say out loud 🫶🏽

06/02/2026

Okay so here’s the thing.

That feeling you get when you’re about to try something and your stomach goes all weird? That’s fear of failure. It’s basically your brain going “what if I mess this up” on repeat.

And it feels awful. Like you almost don’t want to even try because then at least you can’t get it wrong, right?

But here’s what nobody really tells you messing up is just part of learning stuff. Like, there’s no way around it. Every single person who’s good at anything got there by being bad at it first. That’s just how it works.

The fear doesn’t mean stop. It kind of just means you care. Which is actually a good thing, even if it doesn’t feel like one.

So next time it shows up, you don’t have to make it go away. You just try anyway. That’s it. That’s the whole move.

06/02/2026

What Is Your therapists Green Flag?

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06/01/2026

There are days where you look in the mirror and feel disconnected from the person looking back. Days where you go through every motion but none of it feels real. Where people are talking to you and you are nodding but inside there is just static like a blank screen where feelings should be.

And it terrifies you, because you remember when things used to matter. You remember when you could feel things & now you look at your life and it is like watching it through a window. Close enough to see yet too far away to touch.

Here is what I need you to understand. The emptiness is not who you are. It is what happens when your system has been suppressing emotions for so long that it forgot how to turn them back on. You did not wake up empty one day for no reason. You got here slowly. One swallowed feeling at a time. One suppressed reaction at a time. Until your system just went quiet.

And the scariest part is that from the outside you look fine. Maybe even better than fine. You are calm, composed, unbothered & nobody knows that unbothered is not peace. It is absence & it hurts more than any emotion you have ever felt because at least pain means you are alive.

Here is what I want you to know. The feelings are not gone. They are buried & buried things can be found.

Start small. Put on a song you used to love when you were younger. Before the shutting down started. Before the numbness arrived. Let it play. Do not try to feel anything. Just listen & if something flickers, even for a second, that flicker is proof that you are still in there.

If this post spoke to you in some way don’t forget to follow this account and share what made you feel heard?

06/01/2026

Let me know in the comments when you pause what came up for you?

05/30/2026

Which one will you leave me for?

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05/29/2026

Which one do you agree with the most?

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05/28/2026

Where did you pause ? Share in the comments đź’—

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