Don't be shocked when it all shows up at once. The money. The love. The peace. You waited a long time for this. Now life is catching up to the person you’ve become. 🦋 #mentalhealth #selflove #mindfullness #gratitude #manifestation

Don’t forget that parts of your life now were once only part of your dreams. 🦋 #healingjourney #mindfullness #selflove #dreams #mentalhealth

All abuse is physical. Even if they never touch or assault you physically. The impact of abuse and chronic stress on your body and mental health shows up in many illnesses, inflammation, pain, or chronic diseases, and can çause permanent damage or death in some cases. So just because they didn'

Leaving was not weakness. It was courage. Healing takes time, but peace is waiting for you. 🦅 #healingjourney #traumarecovery #survivorstory #selflove #nervoussystemhealing

Healing looks different in the sunshine. So do you. ☀️ #healingjourney #traumahealing #mindbodyspirit #meditation # mindfulness

When someone says "after everything | have done for you," they are not asking for gratitude. They are presenting an invoice. The relationship was a transaction the whole time. You just thought it was love.🦅 #healingjourney #relationshipstruggles #traumarecovery #mindfu

You survived environments that taught you to shrink, apologize, and question your worth. But needing love, rest, reassurance, or care never made you “too much.” The right people won’t make you earn your humanity. 🪶 #healingjourney #traumarecovery #selfcare #survivorstory #mi

Celebrating finishing my first year of my master’s degree in counseling psychology! One more year to go. YAY! 🥂🪶 #graduateschool #studentlife #healingjourney #nervoussystemhealing #mindfullness

Your nervous system goes into fight our flight when you rush. When you push yourself to always produce and act like everything is urgent. Move slower through your tasks. Slow down your breathing. You’ll get more done when your body isn’t in a state of panic. 🦅 #traumarecovery #healingjour

May 5th is MMIWG2ST Awareness Day! MMIWG2ST stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and Trans people. Native women are murdered at rates more than ten times the national average, and homicide remains one of the leading causes of death for Indigenous women and girls.

What to do when everything collapses at the same time. Click on link in bio to read⬆️ #overwhelmed #stress #hopeless #healingjourney #traumarecovery

💯Your pain is a chronic liar. You’ve been conditioned to believe you’re "too much" or a burden. Truth? You add value just by existing. Your past is a bad narrator—don’t let it write the script for your future.🪶 #healingjourney #traumarecovery #mentalhealth #youbelong

From lived experience: A sharp, unfiltered look at bipolar disorder—beyond clichés, into consequence. 🪶Read full story on Substack - link in bio ⬆️ #mentalhealth #bipolardisorder #depression #mania #healing journey

The opposite of depression isn’t joy. It’s expression. When we suppress, we stay stuck. When we express—through art, movement, or words—we release the weight. Your self-expression is literally medicine for your soul. #healingjourney #traumahealing #selfcareideas #mindfulness #depr

Your story is not your abuse or struggle or symptoms. Those may be parts of your story, influences on your story, part of the context of your story, but they’re not the core storyline. The core storyline is your recovery. 🦅 #traumarecovery #healingjourney #survivorstory #healing

Trauma isn’t a mindset problem—it’s a nervous system imprint. You don’t think your way out of trauma; safety has to be felt in the body before it can be believed. 🦅 #traumarecovery #healingjourney #selfcare #survivorstory #healingtiktok

You are not as much of a burden as you’ve been conditioned to believe you are. And you add value even when you don’t believe you do. Your past and pain are not reliable narrators when it comes to your worth, your abilities, or your future. #selfworth #selflove #selfcare #mindfullnes

Correcting an error in my best-selling new book release, SAVAGE. I spoke of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and the editor incorrectly replaced “alters” with “alter-egos”. Here I explain what DID is and the part that alters play; and the difference between alters and alter-egos. The

Another year around the sun, more evolved, wiser, and still pretending we know what we’re doing. Grateful for every lesson, every win, and everyone along the way. 🪶 Makeup: @pradosbeauty Indigenous makeup brand 💋 Please check us out at: janandjoy.org - link in bio⬆️ #happybirthday