Reclaiming Minds Therapy and Wellness

Reclaiming Minds Therapy and Wellness We are a group therapy practice dedicated to women of color and allies as they heal and recover.

Just a reminder, healing doesn't have to be something you carry alone.We have clinicians currently accepting new clients...
07/24/2026

Just a reminder, healing doesn't have to be something you carry alone.

We have clinicians currently accepting new clients! Whether you're navigating anxiety, grief, life transitions, or simply feeling ready for a space that's centered on your growth, we're here to walk alongside you with care, curiosity, and compassion.

Learn more or request an appointment at www.reclaimingmindstherapy.com.

Fear and intuition can sound remarkably alike when you've spent years surviving. Both are trying to keep you safe. The d...
07/23/2026

Fear and intuition can sound remarkably alike when you've spent years surviving. Both are trying to keep you safe. The difference is often not in the volume or intensity of the message, but in the state of the nervous system receiving it.

Discernment is not about silencing fear or forcing certainty. It is about creating enough space within yourself to notice what remains when urgency settles. The quieter voice is not always the easier one to hear, but it is one you can learn to recognize.

Healing is not just learning to trust yourself. It is learning how to tell the difference between the parts of you that are protecting your past and the parts of you that are guiding your future.

We often think self-trust is something we either have or we don't. In reality, it's something we build.Every time you ho...
07/20/2026

We often think self-trust is something we either have or we don't. In reality, it's something we build.

Every time you honor your intuition, you strengthen your relationship with yourself. Every time you dismiss it in favor of fear, old conditioning, or the need for certainty, you teach yourself that your own voice can't be trusted.

Your instincts won't always tell you what's easiest. They often point you toward what's most aligned.

This week, practice listening a little more closely to yourself.

There is a version of you waiting on the other side of the healing you keep postponing.Not the version who has it all fi...
07/16/2026

There is a version of you waiting on the other side of the healing you keep postponing.

Not the version who has it all figured out or the version who no longer abandons herself to keep the peace. Simply, the one who trusts her own voice, her own nervous system, her own knowing.

Therapy is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you were before the world taught you to shrink.

We are accepting new clients at Reclaiming Minds Therapy and Wellness . If you have been circling the decision to begin, consider this your sign.

Scan the QR code or visit ReclaimingMindsTherapy.com to get started.

You do not have to keep carrying it alone.

Therapy isn't only for the moments you're falling apart.It's also for the moments you're trying to understand who you ar...
07/02/2026

Therapy isn't only for the moments you're falling apart.

It's also for the moments you're trying to understand who you are underneath the performing, the pleasing, the surviving.

It's for the boundaries you're ready to root in self-trust instead of guilt. The beliefs about love and womanhood that no longer fit. The joy you haven't let yourself name yet.

This work isn't reserved for crisis. It's for anyone curious enough, courageous enough, to come home to themselves.

What would you explore if you gave yourself permission to go deeper, even when things are "fine"?

Some wounds don't come from what happened to you; they come from what was missing. When a parent couldn't hold their own...
06/17/2026

Some wounds don't come from what happened to you; they come from what was missing. When a parent couldn't hold their own emotions, many of us learned to carry burdens that were never ours to carry. We became the caretaker, the peacemaker, the achiever, the mind reader, the one who "had it together."

And yet, healing is not about blaming. It's about seeing the pattern clearly enough that it no longer lives through you.

The work of healing is not becoming someone new; it's returning to who you were before you learned to survive.

Which slide resonated most with you?

This summer, I decided to do something different. "Reimagining Love and Connection" is a four-week virtual reading and r...
06/16/2026

This summer, I decided to do something different. "Reimagining Love and Connection" is a four-week virtual reading and reflection group built around bell hooks' "Communion: The Female Search for Love." We will read together, reflect together, and do the slow, honest work of examining the stories we inherited about love — and deciding which ones we are ready to release.

bell hooks asked a question that many of us have been afraid to answer honestly: What does it actually mean to love and be loved — not from fear, not from scarcity, not from what survival taught us — but from wholeness?

This group is for those who are ready to stop performing love and start experiencing it.
Wednesday evenings. Virtual. Four weeks. July.

Spots are limited. Scan the QR code or email [email protected] to register.

Some healing doesn't come through words alone.Santyna Piñeiros, LCSW and Imanii Uwakwe, LCSW — two gifted clinicians fro...
06/16/2026

Some healing doesn't come through words alone.

Santyna Piñeiros, LCSW and Imanii Uwakwe, LCSW — two gifted clinicians from the Reclaiming Minds team — are coming together to hold space for women who are ready to explore identity, self-compassion, and trust through the language of creativity.

Rising Through Creativity is a three-session in-person group for women who want to go deeper — not through talking their way to insight, but through making something.

No art experience required. Just a willingness to look within.

July 15 | August 5 | August 19
6PM - 7:30PM
Hyde Park Bank Building

Contact [email protected] to learn more.

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Some relationships feel familiar not because they are healthy, but because they mirror what our nervous system learned t...
06/16/2026

Some relationships feel familiar not because they are healthy, but because they mirror what our nervous system learned to call love.

When love has been tied to performance, usefulness, sacrifice, or self-abandonment, reciprocity can feel unfamiliar. Rest can feel suspicious. Being cared for can feel uncomfortable.

So we have to learn to ask a different question:

Am I being loved, or am I being consumed?

Communion is not perfection. It is mutuality. It is being able to show up as your whole self—not just the parts of you that are useful, strong, giving, or accommodating.

The healing is not simply learning how to love others. The healing is learning that you are worthy of relationships that nourish you, too.

What shifted for you when you stopped mistaking intensity for intimacy?

I'm also doing something a little different this summer. Take a look at the last slide for details .

Clarity is something that we rarely find. More often, it's something that we uncover because it's beneath it all—beneath...
06/10/2026

Clarity is something that we rarely find. More often, it's something that we uncover because it's beneath it all—beneath the noise, beneath the pressure, beneath the expectations, obligations, and competing voices.

Sometimes the answers we seek are already present within us, waiting for a moment of stillness and honest reflection.

These journal prompts are designed to help you slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with what matters most.

Which prompt speaks to you today?

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1525 E 53rd Street, IL Suite 901
Chicago, IL
60615

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Monday 11am - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 8pm
Saturday 11am - 8pm

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