Keresse Thompson, LCSW

09/03/2026

Let your pain fuel your abundance, claim it!

09/03/2026

09/02/2026

Trauma can have you tolerating s**t you don’t deserve.

But let me be really clear…I’m NOT saying that if you tolerate mistreatment, it’s because of your trauma. And I’m definitely not saying someone else’s abusive behavior is somehow your responsibility.

What I AM saying is that trauma can influence what you do once something starts feeling unsafe or unstable.

Maybe you over-function.

You try to fix everything.

You explain yourself 47 different ways because you’re convinced if you could just find the right words, they would finally understand you.

You give another chance. And another.

You focus on why they behave the way they do instead of what their behavior is actually doing to you.

And sometimes you keep trying to be heard by someone who is committed to misunderstanding you.

That’s the part I think we need to talk about more.

Because understanding your own patterns isn’t about blaming yourself for what someone else did.

It’s about recognizing where you still have power.

You cannot control whether someone lies, cheats, manipulates, abuses, shuts down, refuses accountability, or treats you poorly.

That belongs to THEM.

But you can start getting curious about what happens inside of you when they do.

Do I chase?

Do I over-explain?

Do I try harder?

Do I abandon my boundary because losing the relationship feels scarier than losing myself?

And listen… walking away isn’t always simple. Especially in abusive relationships. There can be fear, finances, children, coercive control, safety concerns, and a million other reasons someone may not be able to “just leave.”

So this isn’t about judging the version of you who stayed.

It’s about understanding the version of you who kept trying.

Because healing isn’t taking responsibility for someone else’s behavior.

It’s learning where their responsibility ends…

and yours begins.

09/02/2026

09/01/2026

Opinions??? I think it’s time for a change…🤔🤔🤔🤔 go light or go dark?? Time to revamp this show! Let’s go!

08/29/2026

Healing and grief isn’t linear. Grief is not always straight forward, sometimes it’s grieving the version of yourself you lost, the future you thought you had, the version of someone that you don’t even know if it was real, the version of yourself you became in order to fix it. It’s complex. Don’t measure your progress off of moving through your pain. Measure it off of what you learn, tolerate, and stay for,

08/28/2026

I think a lot of us learned to over-function in relationships without even realizing what we were doing.

We give more. We accommodate more. We explain more. We become more understanding. We keep giving people the benefit of the doubt long after their behavior has given us enough information.

And underneath it is sometimes this quiet belief that if I just do enough, maybe I’ll finally feel secure. Maybe they’ll choose me. Maybe they won’t leave.

But healing has required me to really sit with the fact that someone not choosing me is not an emergency.

I don’t have to chase. I don’t have to convince. I don’t have to prove my worth by how much I’m willing to tolerate or how much I can do for someone.

And honestly, boundaries can feel REALLY uncomfortable when you’re used to over-functioning.

Not fixing it feels uncomfortable.

Letting someone be disappointed in you feels uncomfortable.

Not reaching out feels uncomfortable.

Allowing someone to walk away without chasing them feels uncomfortable.

But uncomfortable doesn’t mean wrong.

Sometimes it means you’re finally doing something differently.

I’m learning that I have to be more in love with my boundaries than I am with the part of me that’s terrified of being abandoned.

Because I don’t want to be chosen at the expense of myself anymore. 🤍

08/26/2026

I will always be the girl who feels deeply.

The girl who takes chances. Who opens her heart even when there’s a possibility it could get broken. Who shows up authentically, loves fully, and gives people the realest version of herself.

And honestly? I don’t regret it.

I don’t regret being soft in a world that taught me to harden. I don’t regret caring. I don’t regret loving people deeply or believing in the possibility of something beautiful.

Maybe I’ve been hurt because I was willing to feel it all.

But I’d rather be someone who loved authentically than someone who spent their life protecting themselves from the possibility of being hurt.

I’ll always choose the open heart. ❤️