Angie Davenport Counseling

10/17/2026

10/17/2026

💯

10/16/2026

Y’all, sing this out loud to yourself a few times. Even if it doesn’t make you healthier, it will lift your mood. Try singing it while you’re on a walk or in the shower. :)

10/16/2026

❤️ 🌧️ 🌱

10/15/2026

Freedom can feel like something another person holds. You wait for the apology, the explanation, the accountability, or the day they understand your pain. Healing begins when you stop placing the key to your peace in someone else’s pocket. Their growth is their responsibility. Your release is yours. You can grieve what happened, honor what it cost you, and still choose not to live inside it. Freedom arrives when your heart accepts that closure can come from your own truth, boundaries, and decision to move forward. You are allowed to leave the waiting room.

10/15/2026

Great lesson

10/14/2026

I remember the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh once saying that there are two ways to wash the dishes. One is to wash them simply to get them done. The other is to wash the dishes not in order to get them done.

It may sound a little confusing, but you might understand it if you pay attention to your own mind while doing the dishes.

As you wash, you may be thinking about the movie you haven’t finished watching, the messages you haven’t replied to, or tomorrow’s work. You might even find yourself arguing internally about why you have to do the dishes again when someone else has just finished eating, too. 😄

Byron Katie offers a rather interesting reminder:

“If it comes to you that the dishes need washing, wash them. That’s heaven. Hell is asking why. ‘I’ll do it later.’ ‘I don’t have to do it.’ ‘It’s not fair.’ ‘Someone else should do it.’”

The truth is, there’s nothing particularly frightening about a pile of dishes. Sometimes, what exhausts us is the entire argument that takes place in our minds before we even begin.

Of course, this doesn’t mean you have to wash the dishes for the whole world, or that you can never complain when someone else avoids their share of the work. If things need to be divided more fairly, we should talk about it. We just don’t have to hold a whole trial in our heads while washing the dishes. 😄

Perhaps the practice of mindfulness can be as simple as this: When washing the dishes, just wash the dishes. When resting, truly rest. When something needs to be addressed, address it.

And if it’s your turn to do the dishes today, try washing them with a little lightness. You might discover that you’ve been spending more energy resisting a small task than it would take to simply do it.

The dishes will eventually be clean. Whether the mind finds peace, however, may depend on whether we feel the need to argue with reality along the way.

10/14/2026

It’s a relationship that can bring safety, growth, and healing.