Empowering Peace Counseling PLLC

06/03/2026

Happy June, and Happy Pride Month.

I want to make a slightly different post this year one that speaks to the heart of what Pride is really about.

For years, I’ve had the privilege of holding space for people in the LGBTQIA+ community, and this work is deep, transformative, beautiful, and hard as hell.

I want you to consider something for a moment.

Imagine the fear of walking down the street and wondering if someone is judging you. The fear of saying who you love. The hesitation before walking into a restaurant, a store, or a public space. The sideways glances. The rude comments. The whispers. The assumptions. The criticism about how someone dresses, who they are, how they show up in the world.

Every interaction carrying the possibility of rejection, shame, or hostility.

This year alone, I have witnessed so much hatred directed at people simply for being authentic. Comments about their bodies. Their hearts. Their identities. Their hopes. Their right to exist as themselves.

And here's the thing: you don't get to hide behind, "I don't have a problem with it, I just don't understand it."

You don't have to understand someone to respect them.

Hell, there are a lot of things in this world I don't understand.

But I understand compassion.

I understand kindness.

I understand making space for another human being.

I understand leading with heart.

Pride isn't asking everyone to understand every experience. It's asking us to remember that people deserve dignity, safety, and the freedom to be themselves.

At the end of the day, isn't that what most of us want anyway?

To be seen.

To be accepted.

To be loved.

Happy Pride Month. May it remind us that love will always create more healing than hate ever could. I personally want to thank each and everyone one of the people in our community that allowed me the privledge to hold this space. You are amazing!

05/25/2026

Let’s talk about Memorial Day. 💙❤️🩵

It was created to honor the military members who never made it home. So today, we hold space for them, for their families, and for the grief that never really leaves the room.

But I also think we need to hold space for the ones who did come home… carrying pieces of war no one could see. The ones who lost time, mental health, relationships, safety, innocence, sleep, moments with their children, and sometimes their entire outlook on life.

I’m the proud daughter of a Marine and Vietnam veteran who enlisted at 17 and served in Vietnam for 25 months. My dad survived the war, but parts of him didn’t. The parts shaped by loss, by trauma, by watching people die, by losing his service dogs, and by coming home to a country that treated many veterans like they were disposable because people hated the war.

He lost a lot there. Many of them did.

Our military members stand in front of danger so the rest of us can sleep a little easier at night. And today, we honor not only those who never came home, but also those who came home forever changed. ❤️

05/23/2026

Is it the baby blues, PPD, or PPA? 💭

Maternal mental health doesn’t look just one way, and symptoms can show up anytime during pregnancy or postpartum.

What you’re feeling might be:
• Baby Blues
• Depression
• Anxiety
✳️ Perinatal Mental Health Disorders also include OCD, bipolar mood disorders, PTSD, and psychosis. ✳️

The Baby Blues are short-term dips in mood caused by the changes of having a baby, and typically dissipate on their own. Depression and anxiety are common, temporary, and treatable, but they do require support.

Too often, parents experience symptoms like: irritability, racing thoughts, guilt, sadness, intrusive thoughts, or constant worry… and don’t realize there’s a name for it.

When we connect the dots, we make maternal mental health visible.
And when it’s visible, it becomes treatable, supportable, and understood.

💙 If you see yourself in this, you are not alone
💙 If you recognize this in someone else, check in

🔵 Visit Postpartum.net/bluedot to donate, support our MMH Month campaign, or get help today.

📞 PSI HelpLine: 800-944-4773
📞 National Maternal Mental Health Hotline: 1-833-852-6262
📲 Download the Connect by PSI App
🔗 Visit Postpartum.net for programs and resources
🔗 Donate here: https://loom.ly/d6pRLec

05/23/2026

05/21/2026

Women of Oklahoma City....and surrounding areas.

Join Us....Not another sad little “self-care” day where you sit in a beige conference room eating dry fruit and pretending breathing exercises alone will heal your nervous system.

This retreat was built differently.

If you are burned out, emotionally exhausted, overstimulated, constantly pouring into everyone else, and secretly fantasizing about disappearing into the woods for 12 business days… this day is for you.

We curated an experience with local experts focused on actual healing, connection, nervous system support, movement, reflection, and grounding in nature. Think less “corporate wellness retreat” and more exhale-your-soul-for-the-first-time-in-months energy.

✨ Guided experiences
✨ Sound bath + healing elements
✨ Connection without forced awkwardness
✨ Nature + grounding
✨ Lunch included
✨ You will be home by dinner time for the kids

The entire day is $225.

And honestly? A single therapy session can cost $170+ for ONE hour. This is an entire day intentionally designed to help women reconnect with themselves in a deeper, more embodied way.

We also offer Klarna payments because healing should not only be accessible to women with unlimited free time and disposable income.

🖤 Registration closes June 1st
🖤 Spots are limited
🖤 Come as you are exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, healing, burnt out, hopeful, anxious, messy, human.

You deserve one day that is about YOU.

Because functioning in survival mode while drinking iced coffee and dissociating through Target trips is not actually rest. Cute coping mechanism. Horrible long-term strategy.

Here is the link to the registration:
https://thesacreduntaming.ticketspice.com/the-sacred-untaming

Here is the link for payment plan options if needed:

https://www.helpfulhippiecollective.com/community

05/20/2026

Welcome our newest therapist to Empowering Peace. Christine Moore, LMFT.

If you’re the one who keeps it together on the outside while everything inside feels loud, heavy, or just… too much, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to keep doing it solo.

You are tired of watching life from the sidelines. It is exhausting trying to hold everything together, and you just want some relief. You want to feel connected again, to have moments of rest, real rest. You want to move forward instead of feeling stuck.

Well, that's why Christine is here. Christine is warm and honest. You aren't going to get overly clinical or harsh judgment here. Instead, you will be met with a safe and comfortable spot to finally exhale.

If you are struggling with trauma, relationship dynamics, anxiety, or depression remind yourself that healing doesn't have to take forever. Get started today by scheduling a free consult.

New clients accepted in network with Aetna Commercial, Healthchoice, United/Optum, and Bluecross and Blue Shield, and private pay clients.

Now accepting clients virtually throughout the state of Oklahoma.

Schedule your free 15-minute consultation:

https://epeace.clientsecure.me./

05/19/2026

Are you the dependable one?
The one everyone counts on?

Do you find yourself constantly frustrated with your own thoughts overthinking, mentally checking, rechecking, trying to make sure everything is handled, said right, done right, felt right?

Maybe your brain is always running in the background:
Did I forget something?
Did I upset someone?
Did I do enough?
What if I mess this up?

For a lot of high-functioning women, perfectionism isn’t just “wanting things nice.” It can become an exhausting internal loop of responsibility, pressure, self-monitoring, and a need for certainty.

People often miss OCD in high-functioning women because it doesn’t always look like the stereotypes.

OCD is not always visible compulsions. Sometimes it’s invisible loops:

Replaying conversations for hours
Needing things to “line up” internally before making decisions
Constantly checking feelings, thoughts, or reactions
Seeking reassurance in subtle ways:
“Are you mad at me?”
“Do you think I handled that okay?”
“What if I’m a bad person?”
Mentally reviewing, correcting, confessing, researching, overexplaining
Feeling temporary relief… until the loop starts again 12 minutes later.

Many high functioning women become experts at masking these patterns because they appear productive, caring, self-aware, or perfectionistic on the outside. But internally, the nervous system is exhausted from trying to create certainty and safety in an uncertain world.

And the cruel part?
The reassurance works briefly which teaches the brain to ask for it again. That’s how the cycle keeps tightening itself quietly in the background.

A lot of women are walking around calling themselves “just anxious” while fighting mental battles nobody else can see.

05/17/2026

I feel compelled to write this after seeing a few things lately on social media.

As a trauma therapist who has spent over a decade immersed in the realities of domestic violence, I need people to understand this: men can absolutely be survivors of abuse.

And for many men, coming forward is incredibly difficult. Part of that is because abusive people often weaponize victimhood. They flip the narrative, claim they’re the one being harmed, and create confusion so thick it could choke a room. Real survivors end up questioning themselves, minimizing what happened, or staying silent altogether.

Men are also raised with messages about being “strong,” “tough,” and able to handle anything. Many are taught to measure abuse only by physical force, as if bruises are the only evidence that something is wrong. That if they admit any fear then they have failed or they aren’t being “ strong” enough.

But abuse is not just about size or strength.
If you feared your partner’s rage, their cruelty, their manipulation, their jealousy, their loss of control, or the emotional whiplash of never knowing what version of them you were going to get that matters.

If you constantly walked on eggshells to keep the peace…

If you felt anxious, hypervigilant, or afraid of saying the wrong thing…

If you abandoned your own needs, boundaries, or comfort just to avoid conflict…

That is abuse.

And while mental health struggles can add complexity to relationships, they are not an excuse for abuse. PTSD, bipolar disorder, BPD, trauma these things can explain pain, but they do not justify coercive control, fear, intimidation, or repeated harm.

People do not choose their trauma.

People do not choose many of their mental health struggles.

But people are still responsible for how they treat others.

Abuse is a choice. A pattern. A cycle maintained through control, fear, and harm.

And men who survive it deserve to be believed too.

💜❤️💙💚🩵🩷

05/14/2026

We’ve poured so much care, intention, and heart into creating this retreat for the women in our community. This wasn’t something we threw together overnight with a Pinterest board and good vibes alone. We’ve spent months collaborating with local providers, supporting other small businesses, using community resources, and thoughtfully curating an experience that we truly believe can help women slow down, reconnect, and breathe again.

We know how common burnout has become. We see it every day, women carrying everything for everyone else while quietly running on empty themselves. That’s part of why this retreat matters so much to us. We wanted to create something grounding, meaningful, and restorative… not performative wellness with cucumber water and unresolved trauma lurking in the corner.

We are trying to fill the last few spots, and honestly, it would mean a lot to us if you’d consider attending or even sharing it with someone who may need it. The reality is that if we can’t fill enough spots, we likely won’t be able to continue offering retreats like this in the future, and we would truly hate to lose the opportunity to keep creating spaces like this for our community.

If your nervous system has been sending smoke signals lately… this might be your sign. 🤍

05/06/2026

Meet Amanda | Now Accepting New Clients

If your mind is always running, you are tired of always pretending you are fine, anxiety is an everyday feeling, and ADHD adds to the overwhelm; you don’t have to hold it all alone.

Amanda supports teens and adults through anxiety, ADHD, and life’s heavier seasons. She offers a warm, grounded space to slow things down, untangle thoughts, and build boundaries that actually stick in real life.

Her style is real, compassionate, and a little nerdy about patterns, deep work with room for humor, and real honesty.

She believes healing should fit your wiring, not fight it.

Evening appointments available.

Spots fill quickly.

Schedule your free 15-minute consultation with Amanda today.

https://epeace.clientsecure.me./