Healing Roots On Up

Healing Roots On Up Mental Health Advocate • Veteran • TBI Survivor • Focused on healing, resilience, and strong families

06/18/2026

The history of Christianity is more complicated than I was taught growing up… and understanding it changed the questions I started asking.

I spent a lot of my life suffering and moving through the world unconsciously.I repeated patterns, reacted instead of re...
06/10/2026

I spent a lot of my life suffering and moving through the world unconsciously.

I repeated patterns, reacted instead of reflected, questioned why life felt harder than it needed to, and wondered if this was just who I was.

If you’re in that place right now, questioning where you are in life and wondering if there’s another way to live, I want you to know there is.

But for me, change didn’t happen overnight.

It took conscious effort, self reflection, therapy, accountability, and a willingness to look inward.

My memoir, From A**hole To Alright: A Life Rewritten Through Self-Reflection, Therapy, and Conscious Change, shares that journey in much more detail and tells the story of how I began changing the way I moved through life.

If this resonates with you and you’re intrigued, check out the link in my bio to grab a copy for yourself.

06/09/2026

Taking space from religion gave me room to reflect.

Not on what others should believe…

but on how shame, fear, and perfectionism shaped me.

Space helped me find myself again.

06/08/2026

Growth didn’t start for me when I became more certain.

It started when I became more curious.

Open-mindedness doesn’t mean agreeing with everyone. It means being willing to learn, listen, and consider that your perspective may not be the only one.

That changed my life.

06/05/2026

When I live in the past, I tend to feel depressed. When I live in the future, I tend to feel anxious.

Mindfulness has helped bring me back to this moment and make decisions from my values instead of fear.

One of the hardest parts of healing is learning to stop measuring your worth by other people’s reactions.🔹 Notice when y...
05/30/2026

One of the hardest parts of healing is learning to stop measuring your worth by other people’s reactions.

🔹 Notice when you’re replaying an interaction.

🔹 Ask yourself: “Am I trying to understand myself, or am I trying to earn approval?”

🔹 Focus on your behavior, not their response.

🔹 Ask: “Did I act in alignment with my values?”

🔹 If the answer is yes, practice letting the rest belong to them.

You can care about how you impact people without needing their approval to feel worthy.

❤️ Have you ever caught yourself replaying a conversation over and over in your head?

05/26/2026

Today we came together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to film a segment for MS NOW, sharing our experiences with Leaving MAGA and the journeys that followed. Grateful to be part of honest conversations centered around healing, growth, and humanity. Thank you to the production team and everyone who helped make today possible.

To examine yourself means becoming willing to question why you think the way you think, react the way you react, believe...
05/21/2026

To examine yourself means becoming willing to question why you think the way you think, react the way you react, believe what you believe, and fear what you fear.

It means asking yourself:
Did I consciously choose these beliefs and perspectives?
Or did I inherit them through family, culture, religion, politics, trauma, fear, or the deep human need to belong?

Self-examination requires humility, emotional honesty, curiosity, and the courage to sit with discomfort instead of immediately defending your identity or worldview.

An examined mind reflects.
An unexamined mind reacts.

05/20/2026

Some of us didn’t run from pain. We came out fighting because our nervous system learned that if we didn’t fight for ourselves, nobody would. Healing Roots On Up ❤️‍🩹

Healing sometimes means questioning what we were taught, especially when those beliefs are causing harm to other human b...
05/17/2026

Healing sometimes means questioning what we were taught, especially when those beliefs are causing harm to other human beings. Some things deserve to be unlearned. ❤️‍🩹

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