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10/22/2026

💜 You can now find me on Insight Timer!

I've been creating guided meditations to help you slow down, find a little calm, and reconnect with yourself.

I'd love for you to check them out! We all deserve a little peace in our day. 💜✨

"If only I had… I shouldn't have… I should have known… Why wasn't I more careful? How am I going to get through this?" Strong emotional reactions to a serious event, like an accident, assault, or natural disaster, are normal. But everyday life can be just as exhausting: a boss demanding longer...

10/08/2026

09/30/2026

Here’s something leaders don't always see:

Your strongest people may already be putting more pressure on themselves than you ever could.

They meet the deadline.
They fix the problem.
They rarely complain.

So you give them more.

More responsibility.
More urgency.
More “I know you can handle it.”

Until the person you thought was simply high-performing is actually exhausted from carrying what nobody noticed.

Good leadership isn't always knowing how to push your best people.

Sometimes, it's knowing when to take something off their plate.

09/30/2026

The word "but" quietly deletes everything before it. "I love you, but I'm frustrated" lands as pure frustration. "I love you, and I'm frustrated" keeps both things true at once. Most relationship tension isn't either-or, it's both-and. You can be committed and unhappy about something. You can appreciate them and still need something to change. Practicing "and" trains you to hold two truths without one canceling the other, which is most of what a hard conversation actually asks of you.

09/30/2026

We will be at the Fulton County Library this Thursday for anyone who may need our services!

09/28/2026

September is Su***de Prevention Month. But Wednesday, the calendar flips, and someone you love will still be struggling in October.

So here's your reminder that checking in doesn't need a designated month. It doesn't need perfect words either. It can be as simple as:

"Hey, I've been thinking about you."
"You've seemed off lately. Want to talk about it?"
"No pressure to respond, just know I'm here."

You don't have to fix anything. You just have to show up. That's it. That's the whole skill.

If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 by call or text. And if it's not a crisis but life just feels heavy, that's reason enough to reach out too.

***dePreventionMonth

09/28/2026

What makes attachment trauma different from other trauma? Most trauma is about something that happened. Attachment trauma is more about something that was missing or something that should have been safe but wasn't. It doesn't leave a clear, specific memory. It leaves a 'felt' sense. Like a body that braces in intimacy. A nervous system that alerts that closeness is a threat. A self that was built around the question of whether it was ever lovable and never received a clear enough answer.

Which is why it often goes unrecognized for so long. There is no big event to point to. The family may have appeared functional. The love may have been real. And yet something was off in the quality of the connection and in how seen the child felt, how safe they felt needing things, how reliably the caregiver returned.

That something, repeated across thousands of interactions across the earliest years of life, is what shapes the attachment system. And the attachment system is what shapes every close relationship that comes after.

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07/06/2026

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Chapter 18 ("Conclusion").