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The Healing Corner, PLLC 📍NC
🧠 Holistic Trauma Therapist |Mental Wellness Advocate
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10/16/2026

The Internet Is NOT Your Therapist! 🗣️

We’re kicking off this new series by bringing context back to mental health conversations, starting with TRIGGERS!

One thing I think we need to become more intentional about is the way we interpret our emotional experiences, especially when other people are involved. Sometimes we’re so focused on identifying who or what made us feel a certain way that we don’t take the time to explore WHY we responded the way we did. And that distinction matters.

Our past experiences can influence how we perceive situations, interpret people’s intentions, and respond to things happening around us. Without that awareness, we may find ourselves responding to the present through the lens of something we’ve experienced in the past.

This isn’t about dismissing our emotions or excusing harmful behavior. It’s about recognizing that our emotional responses give us information, but they don’t always give us the full picture. The more we understand that, the more intentional we can become about how we respond to ourselves and others.

Because awareness is important, but what we do with that awareness matters just as much! 💚

10/13/2026

Somewhere along the way, we’ve started assigning responsibilities to other people that were never theirs to carry in the first place.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Our relationships and interactions with others absolutely influence how we feel, how we respond, and even how we heal. However, there’s a difference between allowing people to support us and expecting them to do the work for us.

I think that’s where we sometimes get confused.

Personal accountability doesn’t mean that other people’s actions don’t matter. It doesn’t mean we have to tolerate disrespect, suppress our emotions, or take responsibility for the harm we’ve experienced. It means recognizing what is within our control and taking ownership of how we choose to move forward.

We can want people to respect our boundaries while recognizing that it’s our responsibility to uphold them. We can acknowledge that someone hurt our feelings without using that hurt to justify how we treat them. We can recognize that what happened to us wasn’t our fault while still taking an active role in our healing.

Two things can be true at the same time.

We can hold other people accountable for their actions while also holding ourselves accountable for ours.

Part of the work is learning to recognize the difference.

10/01/2026

Two things can be true at once: therapists can genuinely care about their clients AND have policies and professional boundaries around the businesses they run.

Those policies go beyond late cancellations and no-shows. They can include communication outside of sessions, social media, payment, scheduling, termination, and other expectations around how the therapeutic relationship and practice operate. That’s why informed consent and practice policies matter.

And yes, context matters too. There are emergencies and circumstances outside of someone’s control where flexibility may make sense. There are also situations where better planning or communication could have prevented an issue. Both realities exist.

One of the harder parts of private practice can be holding all of that at once: having compassion for the person sitting across from you while also maintaining the professional boundaries that allow you to run a sustainable practice.

I think sometimes the conversation online turns professional boundaries into a lack of care, when the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Therapists are allowed to care deeply about the work AND run a business.

09/30/2026

Q4 is among us, and so is the pressure to somehow achieve everything we wanted for this year in three short months. 😅

This time of year has a way of making us look at what we haven’t done yet and immediately start calculating how much we can squeeze into the time that’s left. Goals that got pushed back, things we said we would start, places we thought we would be by now… suddenly it can all feel urgent.

While end-of-year pressure isn’t necessarily new, social media has given us access to more people, more opinions, more accomplishments, and more ideas about where we “should” be.

You can open your phone and within minutes see someone reaching a goal, starting a challenge, making a major life change, or reminding you exactly how many days are left in the year.

Before you know it, you’re evaluating your year based on what everybody else is doing with theirs.

There’s still time to make progress, shift some things, and finish the year with intention. There’s also room to be realistic about your capacity, adjust the goal, or decide that something can carry into next year.

Some things will get done. Some goals may shift. Some things might roll right on into 2027. The calendar changing doesn’t determine whether you’re behind, and it doesn’t erase what you’ve already accomplished.

09/23/2026

The internet LOVES to make emotional regulation sound black and white. You’re regulated or dysregulated.

You’re communicating or avoiding. You’re emotionally available or emotionally unavailable. You know what you need or you need to “do the work.”But people are more complex than that.

Sometimes someone genuinely doesn’t have the language to explain what they’re feeling. Sometimes they know something feels off, but they haven’t figured out what it is yet. Sometimes they need more time to process before they can communicate clearly. And sometimes what looks like avoidance from the outside is someone trying to make sense of what’s happening on the inside.

That doesn’t remove accountability or mean we shouldn’t learn how to communicate our needs. It means emotional regulation is a skill, communication is a skill, and both are shaped by what we’ve been taught, what’s been modeled for us, and what we’ve had the opportunity to practice.

There is a LOT more nuance between “they won’t communicate” and “they don’t know how to communicate this yet.”

09/22/2026

Sometimes the hardest voice to challenge is your own because you’ve heard it for so long that you stopped questioning whether what it says is actually true.

That inner critic can be shaped by so many things, including past experiences, expectations, comparison, things people have said to us, and things we learned to believe about ourselves a long time ago. Eventually, those thoughts can start sounding less like thoughts and more like facts.

That’s where the work comes in. It’s not about pretending everything is positive or forcing yourself to believe something you don’t. It’s about learning to notice when you’re being unnecessarily hard on yourself and getting curious about what else might also be true.

Maybe you didn’t fail and something simply didn’t work out the way you hoped. Maybe you’re not behind, and your life just looks different than what you expected it to look like by now. The things you criticize yourself for may deserve more context, compassion, and grace than you’ve been giving yourself.

You spend entirely too much time with yourself to let your inner critic have the mic all day!!

09/15/2026

Therapy can give you language for what you’re experiencing, help you recognize patterns, and build a deeper understanding of yourself.

Knowing something and actually applying what you know are two different parts of the work.

Integration can look like catching the thought and challenging it, recognizing what’s happening in your body and responding to it, using the coping skill when you actually need it, communicating differently, or making a different choice when the familiar one shows up.

None of that happens overnight. There’s often some unlearning happening right alongside the learning, which means you may recognize something long before you’re able to consistently respond differently.

Awareness is important, BUT what are you doing with what you now know?

I’m excited to return to Atlanta for We Are ILL Wellness Week(end) 2026, where I’ll once again have the opportunity to l...
09/14/2026

I’m excited to return to Atlanta for We Are ILL Wellness Week(end) 2026, where I’ll once again have the opportunity to lead a support group for Black women living with chronic illness.

This experience is especially meaningful to me because I don’t just enter these spaces as a Holistic Trauma Therapist. I enter them as a Black woman living with MS, too.

My lived experience is also what allows me to show up as a We Are ILL ILLfluencer, sharing pieces of life with chronic illness while being part of a community that understands it firsthand.

Wellness Week(end) brings together Black women living with MS, lupus, and NMOSD, along with the people who support us, including partners, friends, caregivers, and family. I’m grateful to be invited back to hold space for connection, conversation, and support again this year.
We’re going Beyond Limits October 30–November 1 in Atlanta, and I’m looking forward to being back in the room.

If Wellness Week(end) has been on your radar, consider this your sign to join us this year!

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