Total Wellness 365

10/28/2026

Guilt says: I did something wrong.
Shame says: I am something wrong.

They feel similar. They go in opposite directions.

Guilt moves toward the person you hurt. It wants to repair.
Shame moves away. It wants to hide, collapse, or punish yourself loudly enough that no one asks anything else of you.

Harsh self-talk can feel like accountability. Often it’s the opposite.

You can’t repair something while you’re busy disappearing from it.

10/22/2026

Daughter. Partner. Employee. Caregiver. The reliable one.
Somewhere under all those roles is you, and it’s easy to lose track of her.

A Sense of Self in a Sea of Roles is a one-time therapy group for women ages 20–40. We’ll use poetry as a starting point to explore how you came to see yourself and where those beliefs first took shape. No writing experience needed, and no performing.

🗓 Saturday, Nov. 7 · 9 a.m.–noon
📍 Total Wellness 365 · 1110 Pendleton St., Cincinnati
☕ Light breakfast provided
💬 $15 · Limited to 10 women
To register, email [email protected]. Registration includes a brief screening.

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10/21/2026

Three things people say when they mean something else.

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10/19/2026

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There is a particular loneliness that happens in a full room, at a birthday dinner or a holiday table, among people who love you and could list your favorite foods and the name of your first dog, and who would be genuinely shocked by one thing about you that they will never be told. They are not wrong about you exactly, since they are accurate about almost everything, and that accuracy is what makes the one omission so heavy to carry through dessert.

10/16/2026

Some of us grieve roles we thought we’d have. Others feel buried under the ones we do.
Either way, the question underneath is the same: who am I, apart from what I do for everyone else?
Join us for A Sense of Self in a Sea of Roles, a small, one-time therapy group for women ages 20–40, using poetry and reflection to explore that question with other women who get it.

Sat., Nov. 7 · 9 a.m.–noon · Cincinnati · $15 · 10 spots
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10/13/2026

10/10/2026

World Mental Health Day tends to get reduced to a mood check, as if the measure of your mental health is how you feel this morning. Mood is information, but it rarely tells you where the real problem is. The parts of a life that go thin first are usually the ones we stopped tending because they were quiet: the work that no longer means anything, the relationship running on habit, the spiritual life postponed until things settle down.

Your mental health rests on whether your days are pointed at something you value. Feeling better is not the same as building a life you don’t need to escape from, and only one of those holds when things get hard.

So today, skip the checklist and ask the harder question: what have you stopped paying attention to, and who are you deciding to become?

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10/06/2026

Some of the most secretive people you know are also the most forthcoming.

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Some people keep most of their lives offline and never think much about it, so that when a coworker asks what they did over the weekend they answer plainly, or decline to, and the conversation moves on without either of them noticing. Other people feel a small, specific relief every time a day passes in which nobody asked, a relief that arrives so routinely they have stopped registering it as relief at all.

10/02/2026

A timely reflection or a poignant question can change the tone and direction of a therapy session. A , as I’ve come to call them.



*these are not specifically from this week & some language has been generalized

10/01/2026

Two dates this month, eighteen days apart, one asking us to look at our own mental health and the other honoring people trained not to. You don’t need a badge or a uniform to learn that lesson, since plenty of people learned it at a kitchen table and it rarely gets examined because it keeps working.

Who would notice if you stopped holding it together?