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Neuroscience geek s***. I freaking love my job.

#neuroscienceart #mentalhealth #neverfingsettle #seekhelp #healdammit #bigkidshit #recovery #growthmindset

Seeeeester! We are headed to you! 🚙🛣️💛

Healing and “being healed” doesn’t mean taking s***. No doormats here.

#nodoormatshere #mentalhealth #neverfingsettle #boundarieslikeamotherfucker #boundarieslikewhoa #stopgoingtothecircus #growthmindset #mentalhealthactivist #socialactivism #activism

Just finished this. Excellent way to reframe depression. 📚📖

Do you want to be safe or be authentically you?

#authenticity #unapologeticallyme #unlearnthatshit #bigkidshit #stophiding #healdammit #neverfingsettle #mentalhealth

Dog park fun! We walked laps and caught up while Ziggy and Ophelia ran a muck with the other dogs. 🐕‍🦺🐾🏃🏼‍♀️👟

No one can stop you from growing and learning and only you can change you. Take control of your life bc if you don’t, someone else will.

#nodoormatshere #mentalhealth #neverfingsettle #lifeistoughbutsoareyou #boundarieslikeamotherfucker #seekhelp #livedammit #healdammit #stophiding

Just finished this one and it’s phenomenal. Actually laughed and cried reading this. 🎭💛📚

Sunday and Monday with my Bean! 💛 Sunday, we found two great places for food and live music and most importantly, outside! 🎶🎤 Of course my daughter jumped off the dock and went swimming at one of them. 🏊🏻‍♀️

Monday we discovered an adorable cafe with the best sandwiches and a turtle show in the pond!

My bestie sent me this bc sometimes even the therapist needs reminders. Who you surround yourself with matters.

#holdontoyourtribe #growthmindset #stepaway #stopgoingtothecircus #bigkidshit #notoxicpositivityhere #lifeistoughbutsoareyou #neverfingsettle #mentalhealth

Friday and Saturday with my Bean in no particular order! 💛 Took the train, adorable new diner for breakfast, thrifting (I forgot my bathing suit), swimming, takeout, South Park, and LOTS of catching up on all the things. Life is good. 👙🏊🏻‍♀️☀️🏖️🐕‍🦺🥡

I see these terms used frequently and incorrectly. Here’s a quick cheat sheet:

#traumarecovery #traumainformedcare #recovery #seekhelp #neverfingsettle #mentalhealth

My “new” (thrifted) “Be Nice” Converse! 👟

These cognitive biases are strong these days. The one I see most in therapy is Sunk Cost Fallacy, in life, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and at the gym, the Spotlight Effect. 🤣

#cognitivebiases #traumarecovery #cognitivedissonance #growthmindset #bigkidshit #unlearnthatshit #cognitivedistortions

It is no success to be liked by those you don’t respect nor share your values. In fact, what does that say about our behaviors if crappy people think we are great? 🤔

#growthmindset #stopgoingtothecircus #bigkidshit #stepaway #codependency #selfesteem #selfidentity #authenticity #unapologeticallyme

End. 👏🏻 The. 👏🏻 Stigma. 👏🏻

#mentalhealthactivist #socialactivism #activism #holdontoyourtribe #traumarecovery #stopgoingtothecircus #unlearnthatshit #youarenotyourdiagnosis #dontaddtothenoise #dobetterbebetter #lifeistoughbutsoareyou #neverfingsettle #mentalhealth #traumaresponses #nodoormatshere

Spent the day at Mimi’s Crafts! 🎨Andee got a kick wheel for Mimi’s! She can now create pottery Ghost style!🏺Nix loves working there and Andee’s intern Leland was just a joy to hang out with. Amy showed up and painted and hung it as well! 👩‍🎨 Such a nice last day before heading home. 💛

Don’t let the bastards wear you down. Guard your heart and let it go.

#nodoormatshere #Forgiveness #growthmindset #bigkidshit #stopgoingtothecircus #dontaddtothenoise #mentalhealth #neverfingsettle

Just finished this. Fantastic read. Goes hand in hand with Minimalism, which I already subscribe to. 💛

People will always judge, but as you do the work, you just won’t care. Therapy doesn’t fix the world, it heals you.

#authenticity #unapologeticallyme #yougotthis #stopgoingtothecircus #stepaway #mentalhealth #neverfingsettle #nodoormatshere

Visit with Aunt Yah-Yah! She decorated Mimi’s Crafts for Nix’s birthday and Nix was teenager embarrassed, but really touched. 🥹💛 Then, it was dinner on the water at River Rocks and home to play Uno! 🦪🥗🃏

Now that the National LGBTQIA+ youth suicide lifeline has been shut down, please pass around this option. You could save a life!

#suicideawarness #lgbtqiaplus #lgbtqia #mentalhealth #neverfingsettle #mentalhealthactivist #socialactivism #activism

Mom is a big animal lover. No easier way to make her day than to bring her assorted animals throughout the day and deposit them into her lap. 🤣 Ophelia, Gir, and our newest addition, the kitten Gator are happy to oblige! 💛🥹🐕‍🦺🐾🐈

THIS.

#seekhelp #neverfingsettle #mentalhealth #healdammit #stophiding #yougotthis #recovery #growthmindset #traumainformedcare #traumarecovery

The milkweed we planted is working! Yay for pollinators! 🦋

This shows very low emotional and social maturity. If you recognize something to be traumatic, believing that someone else should have to go through it just because you is reinforcing trauma. This idea that “I turned out OK“, despite trauma is not how we raise the next generation to be healthy.

Please welcome our newest addition “Gator” (the artist formerly known as Pedro)! He’s us super sweet, loves to play, and purrs nonstop. One day when he is big, he will be an excellent barn cat! 🐈💛

The best revenge is success. My patients and I are weeds. We will grow in the crack of the sidewalk in 100° weather. 💪🏼 Weeds are just flowers that refuse to grow in rows. 🌻🌷🪻🌹

#unapologeticallyme #authenticity #nodoormatshere #neverfingsettle #mentalhealth #livedammit #stophiding #yougotthis

It’s an honor to help. 💛

Just a photo dump of our Sulcata Tortoise, Si. He isn’t bright (he thinks if he can’t see you, you can’t see him), but he makes my day just trucking around our little farm. His favorite things are eating bananas and confusing Juniper who still isn’t sure why this rock moves. 🤣🐢🍌