I have been so excited to post this information!!! Attachment styles are the foundation of our communication skills! Pro tip:How to become healthy — heal your attachment style! Share this info to enlighten someone today! 🫶🏼 #therapy #mentalhealth #attachments #attachmentparenting

Happy Memorial day! 🇺🇸 Days like these can be filled with joy, celebration, cookouts, fun, and for others it's a day that brings back heavy emotions such as grief. Today, I want to honor and respect anyone who has lost a hero! Their sacrifice was not in vain and I hope we never take it for granted! 🇺🇸♥️🤍💙 Days like these can cause mixed emotions to surface, depending on where you are on your healing journey, you will respond different to these emotions. If you are the person grieving, this post was made with you in mind. I hope that after reading this you gain awareness about your healing process and are motivated to take productive steps towards healing. 1. Identify where you are in your healing process. What emotions surface and are you avoiding them or do you have the tools to press into them, process them and work through them? 😊 2. If you answered "I avoid them," then know that healing needs to take place and that is a GREAT place to be! That does not make you any less of a person, it just means that your body is incredible and its asking for healing. 🫶 3. Tips to heal: Talk about it with emotionally mature people, repressing only makes things worst, gain tools and tips on how to navigate grief by talking to a therapist. 🤓 4. Grief does not have a time line, its intricate, grieving is a process. 5. You will come out stronger and filled with meaning! Press in, don’t avoid!!! #memorialday #mentalhealthawareness #memorialdayweekend #militarylife #saluteourheroes #grieftherapy

26.2!!! Why did this marathon mean a lot? It was not the medal! My sticker is still in the envelope…. 😜 It was the mental game, the mental battle, the growth that the process produced in me. I learned to fall in love with the training, with the struggle, with the pain, “the wall”. (The wall is when your body gives up and dramatically slows down your pace). Overcoming that wall become a game. I learned to expect it with anticipation rather than dread. ⚡️ Often times we accept our own limitations before attempting failure!!! We fear failure like it’s our enemy while failure is part of the process! You want growth? Learn how to fail! I learned about how much I love comfort and how comfort keeps me from growing. Part of growth is being uncomfortable every single day! Uncomfortable to wake up early, uncomfortable to sleep, uncomfortable to be inconvenienced, uncomfortable to fail, to try again…. My comfort zone will be the end of me. Thank you mile 23 for the tears and lessons, thank you mile 26 for teaching me what I am made of! Thankful for lessons on pain, growth and endurance! 🫶

Lessons from running a marathon: 1. You will be surprised by what happens when you just show up! 2. Pain doesn’t last forever 3. The mind is a very powerful place, train it well! Train your mind to do hard things, train your mind to wait, train your mind to persist! 4. You can learn to love hard things! 5. Doing hard things for rewards will only take you so far, BUT when you get used to hard, you will look back and see that you went further than you ever imagined! Which one is your favorite? I know these are very different from what society typically teaches us! So let me know what y’all think about these?!!

The battle with an Eating Disorder is hard, complicated, and it’s not as simply choosing to eat! It’s about a broken relationship with self, food, the world and others! Eating disorders distort everything making it necessary that we initiate a journey that helps us rebuild all that has been shattered! This post simply informs on how a life threatening battle with Anorexia Nervosa can affect the human body. I hope that if you find yourself struggling you speak up as healing is available and NO ONE IS EVER TOO FAR GONE FOR HEALING AND REDEMPTION! 🫶♥️

💃🪩💃 Eating w/o anxiety is where it’s attt!!!! 🤌

Let’s learn about bulimia! I just realized that citing will take most of the space for this caption! Stay tuned more info coming your way!!!😜 🌟 For more research check out: Slide seven: Santonicola A, Gagliardi M, Guarino MPL, Siniscalchi M, Ciacci C, Iovino P. Eating Disorders and Gastrointestinal Diseases. Nutrients. 2019 Dec 12;11(12):3038. doi: 10.3390/nu11123038. PMID: 31842421; PMCID: PMC6950592. https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/health-consequences The importance of electrolytes: Shrimanker I, Bhattarai S. Electrolytes. 2022 Jul 25. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 31082167. Smink FR, van Hoeken D, Hoek HW. Epidemiology, course, and outcome of eating disorders. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2013 Nov;26(6):543-8. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e328365a24f. PMID: 24060914. on eating disorders DSM-5, APA!

Therapy Epiphany III All humans are lovely, worthy, valuable and they matter, if not to you, they matter to someone. Give all humans the respect they deserve! We all have a story, a journey and challenges. When you are talking to someone, remember that they are a son, a daughter, a loved one to someone! “Speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” Albert Einstein I hope that today you see people and not their role or tittle! 🫶

Therapy Ephiphany II Often the work that I do entails training people how to seek healthy relationships! 🫶 In therapy, we learn how to discern toxic vs. safe relationships. 🙌 Check this out: If I come across a bad apple, then my brain easily generalizes that all apples are bad. So I learn to believe that all apples are going to make me sick. Here, my mind is just trying to keep me safe, however, not all apples are bad. Similarly, when our wounds have taught us that all relationships are bad, we are prone to get stuck in a hopeless cycle. 😩 This (self-protective shell) tells us that we will NEVER be able to build good RELATIONSHIPS. 😵😭 Because we are communal and relational beings, something deep inside will always desire connection! 🤝The danger is when we become uncomfortably numb in our isolation! 😐 Your fear is valid, trust is HARD! There are a lot of terrible people, churches, communities ( it is a fallen world). BUT THERE ARE ALSO GREAT people, churches, and safe invidivuals out there. 🤗If you don't know how to find safe people then you will continue falling into bad relationships. 🫣 The first step we need to take is to acknowledge the reality of our situation! We need to accept that we were created for community and we can't do life alone! Isolation is not the solution to the problem, instead lets try learning how to build healthy relationships! 🫶 If you feel jaded by your track record of relationships, know that healing is available. ✨🤍