Still Growing: A Therapy Collective

Still Growing: A Therapy Collective At Still Growing: A Therapy Collective, we believe healing begins with connection & creativity.

Through trauma-informed, expressive arts-based care, we help individuals, families & communities find belonging — and the courage to keep growing.

They’re listening to us, and unsure how to feel. They weren’t ready for golems, but they decided they could paint.They m...
07/11/2026

They’re listening to us, and unsure how to feel. They weren’t ready for golems, but they decided they could paint.

They may not have the words yet, but they’re watching what’s happening in our community. They sat by each other trying to make sense of it, asking, “does this look right to you too?”

This is our working stage. They’re allowed to feel vulnerable with each other — and they chose to explore this, together, instead of alone.

—Feelings Matter: Tweens, processing the Aspen Acres fire

gol•em (n.) /ˈgoʊ.ləm/ 1. A figure shaped from earth and breath, made to carry what its maker cannot hold alone. 2. info...
07/11/2026

gol•em (n.) /ˈgoʊ.ləm/

1. A figure shaped from earth and breath, made to carry what its maker cannot hold alone.
2. informal, communal: a thought monster built from clay and worry, given a fear to swallow so its people don’t have to swallow it too.
3. see also: protector; wish with a body; the thing you make when you need your hands to do something while your heart watches the news and hears adults talking about things they may not understand.

Usage: We made golems this week. We pinched them thick around the edges to hold the Aspen Acres fire, packed our hopes into their bellies, and set them facing the smoke to be our small watchful eyes. These golems may hold our hard thoughts but also the hope and gratitude for the Helpers still out there working to keep our community safe.

Kids may not be actively watching the news but they hear their loved ones talking about what is happening around them. They worry and hold this fear with us. Today, we took the time to process these fears in group and created a golem from clay (bilateral stimulation) to process big adult concepts they’re just beginning to understand.

My heart goes out to all the families impacted by the Aspen Acres Fire. I’m truly proud to see the courageous effort of...
07/09/2026

My heart goes out to all the families impacted by the Aspen Acres Fire. I’m truly proud to see the courageous effort of our first responders and support that has been pouring into our community from everyone. Thank you, Pueblo, for showing everyone how great we are! ♥️

This summer our group curriculum is raising awareness around a sense of community and what it takes to be a community member. This past week we focused on a sense of belonging and being included regardless of any differences their family may have. To show case this, the Littles, Big Kids and Tweens turned their family into a unique slice of pizza. My teens were pretty jealous, so they’ll be making their own pizza! Stay Tuned 🍕

Do you ever have a hard intrusive thought that is too heavy for you to carry any longer? Create a gollum, Thought Monste...
07/09/2026

Do you ever have a hard intrusive thought that is too heavy for you to carry any longer? Create a gollum, Thought Monster, to hold it and for younger kids, allow them to squish them away ♥️

Still Growing + All Terrain at D60 Community Resource DayConnecting Pueblo families with creative, trauma-informed suppo...
06/19/2026

Still Growing + All Terrain at D60 Community Resource Day

Connecting Pueblo families with creative, trauma-informed support ❤️

To my family: thank you for showing up for me at the Friendly Harbor Block Party. Being able to give back to this commun...
06/19/2026

To my family: thank you for showing up for me at the Friendly Harbor Block Party. Being able to give back to this community, rooted in the values I was raised with, is one of the greatest gifts I know. My purpose has always grown from that foundation. I don’t take that lightly.

They didn’t paint what happened to them. They painted what it did to them inside.Four panels. One group. One truth told ...
06/19/2026

They didn’t paint what happened to them. They painted what it did to them inside.

Four panels. One group. One truth told in color.

The red panel is external control: the way religious institutions use power, doctrine, and community to define who is acceptable and who is not.

The red, white, and blue panel is the relational web — family, patriotism, and faith arriving as one inseparable package, wrapped around who you’re allowed to love.

The yellow and green panel is what got inside them. The shame that stopped being external and became internal, spreading through the nervous system like an infection, becoming the voice that says you are wrong for existing.

The purple panel, that’s who they are now. After all of it. Expanding, flowing, taking up space in their own colors on their own terms like a sunrise on a new day.

This is an adult LGBTQIA+ group healing from religious abuse. Not a concept. Real people doing the hardest kind of work and not just leaving a system, but evicting a theology that took up residence inside them.

They showed up. They painted this. And they’re still here.

Still Growing: A Therapy Collective — affirming, trauma-informed care in Pueblo, CO.

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Adults. Real lives. Real harm. Real healing.Cool tones for boundaries. For breath. For the slow, quiet work of coming ba...
06/19/2026

Adults. Real lives. Real harm. Real healing.

Cool tones for boundaries. For breath. For the slow, quiet work of coming back to yourself.

Warm tones for what was put on them — the shame, the guilt, the weight of being told that who you are is wrong.

This group knows both sides of that line. They’ve lived it. And they painted it.

These are adults who have experienced religious abuse as LGBTQIA+ individuals. Not a concept. Not a hypothetical. People who were handed shame by the very communities and institutions that were supposed to offer grace — and who are doing the hard, courageous work of untangling what was done to them from who they actually are.

Boundaries aren’t rejection. They’re the first act of believing you deserve protection.

Healing from religious trauma isn’t leaving faith behind. For some it is. For others it’s excavating what was real from what was used as a weapon. Either path is valid. Both take immense courage.

This group showed up. Week after week. And then they made this.

We see you. We believe you. You belong here.

Still Growing: A Therapy Collective provides affirming, trauma-informed care for LGBTQIA+ individuals in Pueblo, CO. You don’t have to carry what was never yours to carry.

Black is the rule. White is the silence. Gray is the conformity. Red is what happens when you break it.These tweens buil...
06/19/2026

Black is the rule. White is the silence. Gray is the conformity. Red is what happens when you break it.

These tweens built this together and they were honest about all of it. The top is full color: who they actually are, what they actually feel, what they chose for themselves. The bottom tells a different story. Gray conformity, black and white for the rules they must follow and red is the punishment waiting at the edges for anyone who steps out of line.

They discussed this harsh reality before they painted it and processed it while they worked. That took courage.

A community can hold you but it can also control you. This middle school group knew the difference and wanted to ensure you’d see it too.

Your brain has layers. So does healing.Three groups. Three ages. One shared truth about how we’re all wired.What you’re ...
06/19/2026

Your brain has layers. So does healing.

Three groups. Three ages. One shared truth about how we’re all wired.

What you’re looking at is polyvagal theory — made visible by kids and teens who lived it first, then painted it.

The layers they mapped:
The front is your thinking brain — the part that plans, decides, connects. The middle holds your emotional brain — where feelings live before words find them. The bottom reaches toward your brainstem — your lizard brain, ancient and fast, built for survival. And the back? That’s the subconscious — the holding cell where everything we haven’t processed yet waits quietly.

Elementary (bottom left):Bold geometry, warm colors pushed outward. Their panels radiate — the way young nervous systems do, big feelings filling every corner.

Middle School (bottom right):Something shifts. Darker backgrounds hold the color now. The tension between what’s bright and what’s hidden starts to show.

High School (top):The most complex. Black moves through the center. Red pulses at the edges. Color fights to stay visible against the weight of everything they’ve learned to carry.

Bottom-up healing means we start where the body starts — not with insight, but with safety. Not with thinking, but with breath, rhythm, and being felt by someone else.

These young people didn’t just learn that. They painted it from the inside out.

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