Abby Sheneman, PsyD, LCSW

09/16/2025

09/15/2025

💜 1 in 3 survivors of domestic violence experience suicidal thoughts.
Silence can be deadly. Breaking it can save lives.
Let’s raise awareness, offer support, and remind survivors they are not alone. ✨
Hashtags: ***dePrevention

09/15/2025

The paper boat drifts on the tide ⛵
A fragile soul with nowhere to hide 🌊
Three stages mark this endless pain 💔
The grief that lingers, a constant chain 😢

The beginning breaks, the world feels torn 🌌
A heavy silence where love was born 🤍
The middle holds the hardest part 💭
Learning to live with a shattered heart 🌙

The rest of life, an endless road 🌟
Carrying grief’s unyielding load 🌿
Yet love remains, through storm and rain 🌧️
Your memory lives, it won’t wane 🌹

Though grief will last my whole life through 💕
So will my endless love for you 🕊️

— Missing You Always

09/15/2025

It's human nature to want to defend yourself.
To protect yourself from further pain, rejection, spite, or hurt.
To try to explain how you came to a conclusion or to rationalize your perspective or behavior so that you can feel understood (and for many of us feeling understood = feeling safe).

But arguing to prove your point or defend your cause in a moment where all participating parties' emotions are running high is not going to get you the result you're looking for.
As we see every single day, it just continues to widen the divide.

Right now, around the world for many different reasons, people are grieving.
They're distraught, disappointed, defensive, angry, and deeply afraid of what the future might bring.
And in this particular moment debate, mockery, and arguments aren't what's needed to move the needle.

Instead of trying to prove your point intellectually, what would it look like to live it out?
To embody your values?
To give people space to process their pain without mockery or derision?
To act kindly and generously — even toward those who may not appear to “deserve” it?

This is the work that actually moves the needle.
It’s incredibly difficult work: noticing resistance, processing your own feelings, and choosing response over reaction.
It’s learning how to stay grounded in your integrity (or how to return to it when you waver).

This is how bridges are built — in intimate relationships and across fences, streets, and aisles.

Words only go so far.
What do you need in order to ground yourself today?

09/15/2025

💜 Maybe one day for others to choose me, but I’m not ready yet, I don’t want to seep my pain onto them.
Healing in progress here, until then I have chosen myself and I’m very ok with that. 💜

09/15/2025

I made this a few years ago to show that we're all different in the way anxiety shows up in our lives.
Which is why it's important to make space for all kinds of experiences, even if they don't reflect ours.

09/13/2025

💜 Unfortunately I can’t get it any clearer than this before it blurs out.

The 5 F’s of trauma, there’s actually 3 more, but not so common.
Friend - where we befriend the perp to save our lives.
Found - seeking safety or connection, during and after traumatic experience.
Faint - Our body switches off, we become unconscious to escape from an unbearable situation. 💜

09/13/2025

Grief isn’t a season. It’s the weather now.

It doesn’t pass like winter into spring. It lingers. Some days it pours, some days it drizzles, and once in a while the sun peeks through. But it’s always there.

We don’t wait for it to end. We just learn how to live in it.

Izzy Roe 💜

09/13/2025

Preventing su***de

09/11/2025

Today is National Su***de Prevention Day.

You never know the weight someone else may be carrying.

Su***de prevention is not only about supporting individuals—it’s also about building systems of community care where everyone has access to safety, connection, and the resources they need to thrive.

Let’s keep talking, listening, and showing up for one another. Learn more and share resources at www.preventsu***dect.org.

Amanda P.