Dr. Jennifer Slingerland Ryan, LPC

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Dr. Jennifer Slingerland Ryan, LPC Teaching the science of love and roots of belonging. 🛋️ Counseling Intensives
👩‍💻 Self Love Hub

09/18/2026

Are you choosing people or situations because they feel familiar? Familiar and comfort aren't always what's best for your nervous system.

09/15/2026

Did you know that psychopaths have different brain wiring that non-psychopaths?

09/13/2026

Secure isn't something you arrive at and check off. It's a direction, not a destination, and it doesn't matter where you're starting from.

The work is moving toward secure. If you're already secure, the work is going deeper — more grounded, more attuned, especially under pressure.

Either way, it's not decided in a therapy session. It's decided in the small stuff — sleep, movement, what you feed your mind, whether you make room for silence.

Secure attachment isn't something that happens to you. It's something you build.
Which way are you walking today? 🚶‍♀️

09/10/2026

Depressed, anxious, overwhelmed? Healing doesn't start with a mindset. It starts with what you actually do with your body and your day.

That's TEP. The Eight Practices. Four for your body, four for your soul.

🌱 SOIL
1. Surrender to Sleep
2. Move Your Body in Nature
3. Enrich with Nourishing Foods
4. Curate Your Mind's Environment

✨ SOUL
5. Access Inner Silence
6. Cultivate Your Inner Core
7. Open Your Emotional World
8. Visualize Your Best Future Self

Secure attachment isn't something that happens to you. It's something you build, and TEP is how.
You don't have to feel ready. You just have to do the things.

08/31/2026

Are you already doing The Eight Things?
There's no total amount to do them, you just have to do them. It's sort of like going to the gym and Coach says, "Can you do just one more?" Maybe you can, maybe you can't. But a *little* more is the goal.

Can you be outside just 5 minutes longer?
Can you have just one nourishing food item?
Could you sit in silence for just 5 minutes?

You get the idea.
And, what do you think of these little trackers I made for me and our counseling staff?

08/31/2026

Someone on socials asked:

Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ever feel like it's gaslighting?

My answer:

The premise of CBT is "you can't change everyone else or what they do, so use the power inside you to change your subjective experience." It doesn't diminish that bad things happened to you, but it does ask, "So what choices do you have now?"

That's not the same as being told it didn't happen, or that it's your fault. It's being handed the one thing that was never taken from you — what you do next.

02/25/2026

Balancing everything you want with everything that you need can be quite a challenge! My body is teaching me a lesson this week.

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