Hey everyone! I have enjoyed getting to know a few of you here. I am being pulled back into the music industry and am shifting gears. I'm still planning to have mental health content and coaching, but at a lighter level and on a different platform. So, if ya didn't know: I do music about mental health, faith, sobriety and life's challenges! Here's my first music video as a solo artist. Maybe I'll post a link to the other platform if anyone is interested. https://youtu.be/jYdBcyEzByM?si=v4Az50gK_IhKu6jp

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The most radical thing I ever did was learn to rest without guilt. For years, I equated my worth with my productivity. If I wasn't doing, achieving, or pushing—I felt like I was failing. Then I discovered something that changed everything: Receptivity is not passivity. It's power. The divine feminine teaches us that there's wisdom in stillness. That answers come when we stop forcing. That our value was never meant to be earned. Rest isn't the reward for finishing. It's the foundation for beginning. What would change if you stopped treating rest like a luxury?

**“How’s That Working for You?”** ----- **“How’s That Working for You?”** You show up to therapy. You answer the questions. Maybe you even do the homework. But nothing changes. And somewhere deep down, you already know why. ----- **Resistance Doesn’t Always Look Like Refusal** **The Intellectualizer** — Talks *about* feelings instead of *feeling* them. Knows all the terminology. Stays safely in their head. **The Deflector** — Uses humor, changes subjects, always has a new crisis right when the real work begins. **The Yes-But** — Has a reason why every suggestion won’t work. Agrees in session, does nothing after. **The Performer** — Says all the right things. Appears to make progress. Has never actually been honest. **The Controller** — Steers away from threatening topics. Needs to run the session because vulnerability feels like death. ----- **What’s Really Happening** Resistance is protection. Your brain learned that certain feelings were too dangerous to access. Therapy asks you to take those walls down, and every part of you is screaming *no*. But here’s the hard truth: **You cannot heal what you refuse to feel.** ----- **The Question Worth Asking** If nothing has changed after months or years of therapy: *What am I protecting by staying stuck?* *What would I have to feel if I actually let this work?* Your therapist can’t do the work for you. They can only walk beside you while you finally do it yourself. So… how’s that working for you?