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.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that being lovable meant being useful. So we got good at it. Composed. Capab...
05/28/2026

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that being lovable meant being useful. So we got good at it. Composed. Capable. Needed.

But survival is not the same as being cherished. And the self who learned to perform strength was never the whole of who you are. There is a part of you that went quiet so you could keep going — the one who needed rest, and just room to grieve. She's still waiting to be chosen.

Self-love, then, is not indulgence. It is the refusal to betray yourself for proximity, potential, or validation. It is letting yourself be held, and considered...including by your own hands.

So pause, gently, and ask: where am I still calling survival "love"? Thats were the self love is needed most.

Most of us come to healing looking for answers.Why do I keep choosing this? Why can't I move forward? What is wrong with...
05/27/2026

Most of us come to healing looking for answers.
Why do I keep choosing this? Why can't I move forward? What is wrong with me?

So we commence to fixing. We read the books, do the therapy, say the affirmations. And still something feels missing. What is missing is rarely more information. What is missing is the ability to trust the one person who has been with you through all of it. Yourself.

Self-trust is not confidence. Confidence is about what you can do. Self-trust is about who you are willing to believe. It is the quiet, internal authority that says: my perceptions are real. My feelings are valid data. What I know is worth acting on.

And for many of us, that authority was eroded long before we were old enough to name it. So we build it back. Choice by choice. Boundary by boundary. Self-trust is not one part of the healing journey. It is the ground beneath every step of it.

Resentment rarely announces itself. It comes dressed as loyalty. As selflessness. As being the one who always shows up, ...
05/26/2026

Resentment rarely announces itself. It comes dressed as loyalty. As selflessness. As being the one who always shows up, always gives, always holds it together.

But underneath that giving, something else is happening. A quiet accumulation of unspoken needs, uncrossed limits, and unnamed pain. And over time, that weight becomes resentment.

Resentment is not a character flaw. It is a message.
The work is learning to listen to it before it speaks at full volume. Naming what hurts. Revisiting where you stopped advocating for yourself. And slowly, returning to the truth that your peace is not negotiable. Healing from resentment is not about releasing what happened. It is about reclaiming who you are underneath it.

And if you are ready to go deeper, the Science of Self-Trust summer group opens in June. Link in bio.

There is a knowing that lives beneath language. Before you could name what hurt, your body already knew. Before the word...
05/26/2026

There is a knowing that lives beneath language. Before you could name what hurt, your body already knew. Before the words came, something in you was already reaching — for color, for texture, for a way to make the invisible visible. This summer, invites you into something different.

"Rising Through Creativity: Uncovering the Depths of Our Inner Selves" is a three-part in-person healing experience where the creative process becomes the entry point — not the performance, not the product, but the process itself.

Facilitated by Santyna and Imanii, this group will move through the terrain of identity, self-esteem, empowerment, self-compassion, trust, and creative expression as a form of healing. These are not abstract concepts. They are the lived architecture of women who have spent years holding more than they were meant to hold.

No artistic background is required. What is required is a willingness to show up honestly — to let something move through you before you understand it, and to trust that the understanding will come.

Healing does not always begin in the mind. Sometimes it begins in the hands. In community. In the quiet courage of creating something true.

We are holding space. Come as you are.

Empathy is one of our greatest gifts. But even gifts require stewardship. When we give without limits, we are not being ...
05/20/2026

Empathy is one of our greatest gifts. But even gifts require stewardship. When we give without limits, we are not being generous. We are abandoning ourselves. And for many of us, that pattern started long before we had words for it.

Your care is valuable. Protect it.

What is one boundary you are learning to honor this season?

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Hyperindependence isn't confidence. It's a nervous system adaptation to relational disappointment. It's what happens whe...
05/20/2026

Hyperindependence isn't confidence. It's a nervous system adaptation to relational disappointment. It's what happens when reaching for support meant falling. When asking meant hearing no. When needing meant being too much.

So you learned not to need. Not to ask. Not to want anything that required another person to show up. And your body paid the price.

Because every time you override exhaustion, minimize loneliness, or rationalize away your longing, you send yourself a message: your needs are not valid. Your feelings are not trustworthy. You are too much.
Self-trust erodes one silenced need at a time.
And intimacy becomes impossible when you cannot let yourself be held.

The work is not to stop being strong. The work is to discover that strength and softness are not opposites. That you can be capable and still need support. That asking is not weakness—it is trust.

Healing happens in community and does not always begin with words. Sometimes it begins with color, with movement, with c...
05/19/2026

Healing happens in community and does not always begin with words. Sometimes it begins with color, with movement, with creating something honest before you fully understand it.

This summer, we invite women into a deeply reflective creative healing experience: “Rising Through Creativity: Uncovering the Depths of Our Inner Selves.”

This three-part in-person group will explore:
Identity, Self-esteem, Empowerment, Self-compassion, Trust, and Creative expression as healing.

No art experience is required. Just bring yourself.

Mental health awareness means something different when you're actually living it. It's not always a crisis. Sometimes it...
05/01/2026

Mental health awareness means something different when you're actually living it. It's not always a crisis. Sometimes it's the fatigue you can't shake. The irritability that you don't even understand, or the drift away from people and things you love.

This month is an invitation to pay attention to those quieter signals and to respond with intention, not urgency.

Small, consistent acts of care are what tending to yourself actually looks like. Not a complete overhaul. Not waiting until things fall apart. Just a pause. A breath. An honest answer to the question what do I need right now?

If this resonated and you're ready to go deeper this summer, I'll be facilitating two separate groups in June and July. First up :The Science of Self-Trust.

Forming now.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I want to start it by saying this simply: Your mental health is not a crisis t...
05/01/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I want to start it by saying this simply: Your mental health is not a crisis to manage. It is a part of your life to tend to.

How we think, feel, and move through the world is shaped by so much—our histories, our relationships, the baggage we carry that was never ours to begin with. And yet, again and again, we show up. We push through. We perform "fine." We perform wellness.

This month, I'm inviting something different: not just awareness, but honest, compassionate attention. To what you're feeling. To what your body has been trying to tell you. To the parts of you that are quietly asking to be seen.

Mental health is not a destination. It is the ongoing practice of coming home to yourself. We are here for that journey... all of it.

Drop a comment and tell me: What does tending to your mental health look like for you right now?

It's a special kind of exhaustion that sets in when you have literally done everything you know to do. I mean, you plann...
04/30/2026

It's a special kind of exhaustion that sets in when you have literally done everything you know to do. I mean, you planned. You prayed. You pushed. You pivoted. And still met with resistance.

This is where the paradox of surrender lives. A lot of us have been taught to fight for every inch of space, and that releasing control is the same as giving up. But surrender, in its truest form, is not defeat. It is a super radical act of trust — trust in a process that is larger than what the mind can manage alone.

There is wisdom in knowing when effort has done its work and when the next move belongs to something beyond your doing.

You are not failing when you surrender. You are finally allowing.

What would it feel like to stop managing the outcome and start trusting the unfolding?

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1525 E 53rd Street, IL Suite 901
Chicago, IL
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Wednesday 11am - 8pm
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