The Healing Thread LLC

10/22/2026

10/21/2026

One of the things I often remind people is that we can’t always control what we feel, but we can learn how to respond to those feelings. That’s where Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) comes in. DBT teaches us practical skills to help navigate difficult emotions, tolerate distress, become more present, and build healthier relationships. It’s isn’t about suppressing our emotions, pretending everything is okay, or never getting upset. Our feelings still exist, we cannot control that… however we can control our reactions to them. It’s all about learning to sit with uncomfortable feelings without immediately needing to escape them, recognizing when our emotions are influencing our reactions, and learning to communicate our needs without abandoning ourselves in the process. And like anything else, these skills take practice. There will still be moments when we react instead of respond, and that’s okay too. Growth isn’t about getting it right every time. It’s about becoming more aware of our patterns and learning to make different choices, one moment at a time.

🌿 A gentle reminder: You can feel something deeply without allowing that feeling to decide what happens next.

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10/16/2026

Sometimes we get so caught up in everything happening around us that we forget to check in with ourselves. Take a moment to pause, breathe, and notice what your body is telling you. You don't have to wait until you're overwhelmed to give yourself permission to slow down.🌿

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10/14/2026

Boundaries are hard, especially when we’re used to putting everyone else’s feelings and needs before our own. Setting them can bring up guilt, fear, and discomfort, but we deserve to honor our own needs without abandoning ourselves in the process. Sometimes we have to learn to tolerate the temporary discomfort of disappointing others rather than continue living with the pain of disappointing ourselves. And that takes practice. We owe it to ourselves to sit with that discomfort, to recognize that our needs matter too, and to remember that choosing ourselves doesn’t mean we care any less about others. We can be compassionate toward others without abandoning ourselves. 🌿

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10/13/2026

Our minds are constantly trying to make sense of the world around us, but sometimes the stories we tell ourselves aren’t entirely accurate. Cognitive distortions are patterns of thinking that can influence how we see ourselves, others, and the situations we experience. Cognitive distortions are can make situations feel worse, more extreme, or more certain than they actually are. They often happen automatically, especially under stress. We might assume someone is upset with us, convince ourselves that one mistake means we’re a failure, or dismiss the good things we do while focusing on everything we think we’ve done wrong. And because these thoughts can feel so convincing, we often accept them as facts without ever questioning them. Part of healing is learning to slow down, become curious about our thoughts, and recognize that just because we think something doesn’t necessarily make it true. Cognitive reframing isn’t about forcing ourselves to be positive or pretending difficult things don’t happen. It’s about learning to see things more accurately, with a little more perspective and compassion for ourselves.

A gentle reminder: Not every thought deserves to be believed. Sometimes it deserves to be questioned. 🌿🧵

The Healing Thread

10/13/2026

There are many different approaches to therapy, often referred to as therapeutic modalities, and each offers different tools to help us better understand ourselves, navigate difficult experiences, and create meaningful change. Some of the approaches I frequently incorporate into my work include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). While each has its own focus, they share an important goal: helping us develop a healthier relationship with our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. CBT helps us recognize and challenge patterns of thinking that may be contributing to our distress. DBT teaches us skills to manage difficult emotions, tolerate discomfort, practice mindfulness, and navigate relationships more effectively. ACT encourages us to make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings while continuing to take steps toward a life that reflects our values. What I appreciate about these approaches is that they don’t require us to have everything figured out before we begin making changes. Healing involves both understanding why we respond the way we do and learning new ways to move forward. Sometimes that means questioning a thought, sometimes it means accepting a feeling, and other times it means choosing a different response. None of these approaches is about becoming someone else, but rather developing the awareness, flexibility, and skills to live more intentionally.

🌿 And sometimes, the smallest shifts in how we relate to ourselves can make the biggest difference.

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10/09/2026

I think part of healing is learning how to look back at past versions of ourselves with a little more compassion.

Not pretending we didn’t make mistakes. Not excusing the ways we may have hurt ourselves or other people. But understanding that sometimes we were making decisions with the tools, awareness, safety, and capacity we had at that time.

And as we grow, we know more. We see things differently. We learn healthier ways to cope, communicate, love, set boundaries, and take care of ourselves.

I think real growth is being able to face the hard parts of our story without needing to hate the person we were when they happened.

We can take accountability. We can grieve. We can learn. We can choose differently. And we can still have compassion for the version of ourselves who didn’t know what we know now.

Maybe that’s part of what healing really is, slowly becoming someone you feel safe with. Someone you trust to take care of you, even when life gets hard. 🤍

Building a safe home within yourself, one thread at a time. 🤍

— The Healing Thread

10/07/2026

Yesterday I shared about allowing ourselves to feel our emotions rather than becoming afraid of them. But acceptance doesn’t mean we stop moving.

Sometimes anxiety comes with us. Sometimes sadness comes with us. Sometimes we’re tired, overwhelmed, or simply don’t feel like showing up.

Willingness is making room for what we feel. Committed action is choosing to keep moving toward what matters while those feelings are present.

You don’t have to feel better before you participate in your life. On the hard days, the step may need to become smaller, but it doesn’t have to become zero. One small step at a time, no matter how small🤍

A gentle reflection:

What feeling have you been waiting to go away before allowing yourself to move toward something that matters to you?

And what is one small step you could take toward it, even with that feeling still present? Maybe it’s reaching out for support, starting therapy, having a difficult conversation, showing up for something you’ve been avoiding, or simply taking the smallest step you have capacity for today.

The goal isn’t to leave your feelings behind. It’s learning that you can carry them without letting them choose the direction of your life.

— The Healing Thread🧵 🍃

10/06/2026

Healing isn’t becoming less emotional.
It’s becoming less afraid of your emotions.
We sometimes imagine healing as reaching a place where things no longer hurt. Where we don’t get angry, anxious, overwhelmed, jealous, disappointed, or afraid. But emotional health isn’t the absence of difficult emotions. It’s developing the capacity to experience them without immediately needing to escape them, suppress them, act on them, or turn them into a story about who we are.

You can feel anxious without allowing anxiety to make every decision.

You can feel angry without becoming destructive.

You can feel shame without deciding that you are shameful.

You can feel grief without believing you will feel this way forever.

Sometimes healing simply looks like noticing:

“This feeling is here right now. I can make room for it. I can listen to what it may be telling me. And I don’t have to become it.”

Emotions are experiences, not identities.

The goal isn’t to feel less.

It’s to become increasingly able to hold what you feel with curiosity, compassion, and choice. I always like to say feelings are visitors. Allow them to come. Get curious about what brought them here. Listen to what they may be trying to tell you. But remember… you don’t have to become them 🤍

— The Healing Thread

09/11/2026

At The Healing Thread, I wanted to create a space where both adults and children can feel safe, comfortable, and completely themselves. A place to slow down, play, create, talk, feel, breathe, and grow. Whether healing looks like a quiet conversation on the couch or movement, art, and play in the kids’ corner, there is space here for all of it. 🤍

Everyone deserves a soft place to land, and I hope this space feels like exactly that. 🌿✨