Peace Be Still, LLC

08/31/2026

REGISTER NOW you wouldn’t want to miss this training .

Join NAMI Minnesota for a webinar with Tanya Kennedy, MA, LPCC. Tanya is a licensed professional clinical counselor with over twenty years of experience in the mental health field. She brings a strengths-based, culturally responsive, holistic approach to mental health and healing. Her work recognizes that emotional well-being cannot be separated from a person’s lived experiences, culture, identity, family, and community. Grounded in multicultural and humanistic practices, Tanya centers cultural humility, collaboration, and respect while helping individuals and communities build upon the strengths and traditions they already possess.

Drawing on her extensive clinical experience and culturally responsive perspective, Tanya will explore how su***de prevention efforts can move beyond one-size-fits-all approaches and better recognize the experiences, protective factors, and sources of resilience within African immigrant and African American communities.

Friday, September 18, 12:00-1:00 PM
Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ORb7b2l-Sq2AsOlXJF6oFQ

07/27/2026

🇱🇷 Happy 179th Independence Day to my Mama Liberia! ❤️🤍💙

Today, I celebrate the land that gave me my roots, my resilience, and my story. Though life has taken me across oceans, Liberia will forever live in my heart. I carry her strength, her beauty, and her spirit everywhere I go.

Here’s to honoring those who came before us, celebrating how far we’ve come, and believing in an even brighter future for the Lone Star.

Happy Independence Day, Mama Liberia. May peace, unity, healing, and prosperity continue to rise across our beloved nation.

One people. One destiny. One Lone Star. 🇱🇷✨

07/11/2026

Every professional needs mentors—people who give you something to aspire to and who set the standard for excellence.

For well over a decade, mine have been Dr. Oni, Dr. Ola, and Dr. Njoyi—true African mental health stalwarts here in the Twin Cities. Their leadership, humility, and unwavering commitment to our communities continue to inspire me.

What I cherish most is that as they continue to ascend, they never hesitate to bring others along. That kind of leadership leaves a legacy.

Iron sharpens iron. I am grateful to learn, grow, and serve alongside giants in this field.

The 12th Annual Mental Health Summit was a tremendous success. Thank you for creating spaces where knowledge is shared, communities are strengthened, and the next generation of mental health professionals is empowered.

Here’s to continued collaboration, excellence, and healing. 💚🧠

07/03/2026

Hello my Peace Seekers 🌿

Mental health is not just personal.
It is shaped by history, culture, identity, and survival. And for many communities…
survival has been the default setting.
You deserve care that understands you.
Not care that asks you to translate your pain…but care that recognizes your language, your lived experience, your humanity.

Tomorrow, as America celebrates 250 years, I find myself reflecting not just on a nation, but on hope. The beauty of this nation has always been found in its people. Every language spoken, every tradition shared, every sacrifice made, and every dream pursued has added another thread to the fabric of America.

Our history is layered with triumphs and trials, progress and growing pains. Yet I still believe that we are strongest when we choose compassion over division, community over fear, and belonging over exclusion.

Today, I celebrate the freedom to serve, to heal, to give back, and to stand in the gap for those whose voices are often unheard. That, to me, is part of the American promise.

Happy 250th Birthday, America.

Land of the free. A beacon of hope. May we never stop becoming the nation we aspire to be. 🇺🇸❤️

07/01/2026

🌿 Hello, July.

July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month—a time to honor the resilience, stories, and healing journeys of communities that have too often been overlooked, underserved, and unheard.

As a therapist, I know that mental health does not exist in a vacuum. It is shaped by our lived experiences, our cultures, our histories, our joys, and our struggles. For many in marginalized communities, healing means carrying not only personal pain but also generational wounds, systemic barriers, displacement, racism, and the weight of survival.

Yet, I also know this truth:

We are more than what we’ve endured.

Healing is possible.
Joy is possible.
Peace is possible.

This month, I invite you to choose yourself without guilt. Check in on your loved ones. Rest without apology. Seek support without shame. Tell your story when you’re ready. And remember that asking for help is not a sign of weakness—it is one of the bravest acts of self-love.

At Peace Be Still, LLC, we remain committed to creating spaces where every person feels seen, heard, valued, and empowered to heal.

May this month remind us that mental health is a human right, and equitable, culturally responsive care should be available to everyone.

💚 Because healing isn’t just individual—it is collective.

05/22/2026

The fruit speaks for itself.
My receipts live in the transformed lives, the healed hearts, the people who found their way back to themselves after crossing paths with me.

I don’t take that lightly.
To walk in my gifts daily, to pour from a place of purpose, service, and truth — that is both an honor and a responsibility.

For all of it, I am humbled.
Deeply grateful.
And committed to continuing the work with grace, compassion, and intention. 🙏🏾✨

Tanya Kennedy, MA, LPCC
(Affectionately known as Therapist T)

05/21/2026

Tonight, after evening client sessions, I attended a community vigil for a nurse, mother, wife, and devoted church member who never returned home alive from work on 05/14/26.

As a mother of three daughters, I stood there carrying the heaviness of the moment — both as a woman and through the lens of a therapist — watching her children and husband navigate unimaginable grief on such a communal stage.

Moments like these remind us how fragile life is, how deeply community matters, and how grief does not exist in isolation. It ripples through families, workplaces, churches, and entire communities.

Sending healing, comfort, and light to all who loved her. And when the time is right, I am here to offer therapeutic support and services to those navigating loss, trauma, and the weight of collective grief. 🤍

05/20/2026

A gentle reminder: healing is not linear, but it is possible.
This month let’s normalize :✨therapy
✨emotional honesty
✨ healthy coping
✨ community care
✨ choosing peace over performance

💚

05/15/2026

Today 5/15/2026, for Mental Health Action Day, we’re being called to do more than post quotes, wear green, or say “check on your people.” Awareness matters — but action changes lives.

Healing lives in the small, brave moments:
• making the therapy appointment
• answering the phone when a friend calls
• setting boundaries without guilt
• resting without apologizing
• checking in on the strong friend
• speaking up instead of suffering in silence

Mental health is not a trend. It is health.
And action can look like compassion, community, honesty, advocacy, treatment, or simply deciding that you deserve support too.

Today, move one step closer to healing — for yourself or for someone else. One conversation. One resource. One act of care. That’s how we change lives.

🧠💚 From awareness to action.

05/14/2026

May is Mental Health Month and the conversation continues ; your very own Tanya Kennedy, MA,LPCC private practice owner and psychotherapist Peace Be Still, LLC was at the table to speak on next steps for healing and mental health support post Operation Metro Surge.
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