Fireside Therapy Services, LLC

07/28/2025

Register early!!!

07/28/2025

🍂 Fall Registration Now Open! 🍂
Women as Warriors: Equine-Assisted Learning Program

Are you ready to reconnect, recharge, and rise into your strength this season? Join our powerful, horse-assisted journey designed to help women build confidence, communication, and clarity—all from the ground.

🐴 No riding
🌿 Empowering sessions in a peaceful, nature-based setting
🧘‍♀️ Perfect for personal growth, stress relief, and transformation

✨ Spaces are limited and this program fills fast!
📅 Fall Session begins September 28th
📍 In Stable Hands (512 Lime Lane; Greensburg PA)
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Step into your power—alongside horses—and rediscover the warrior within.

07/28/2025

07/25/2025

The inner world of the anxious attachment

07/24/2025

Thursday thinker

Bingo.

07/11/2025

"In a narcissistic family, loyalty isn't about love—it's about silence. Everyone knows the truth but stays quiet, too cowardly to speak up and too invested in the psychosis to change."
The atmosphere is heavy with secrets, denial, and emotional manipulation. It’s not a home—it’s a stage, where everyone is assigned a role and expected to play it without question. The golden child can do no wrong, the scapegoat is blamed for everything, and the enablers are too afraid to disturb the fragile illusion of "normalcy." Speaking the truth is treated as betrayal. Asking for accountability is seen as rebellion. You're not encouraged to express yourself—you’re expected to conform, comply, and most importantly, stay quiet.

Conversations are shallow, emotions are invalidated, and vulnerability is weaponized. If you cry, you're overreacting. If you're angry, you're "too sensitive." If you tell the truth, you're the problem. Love is conditional, approval is rare, and the only way to earn peace is by sacrificing your authenticity. The narcissist’s version of love is performance-based—you're loved when you're useful, when you don't challenge their authority, and when you reflect back the image they want to see.

Everyone tiptoes around the dysfunction because it’s more comfortable to keep the lie alive than to confront the pain of reality. It’s not that they don’t know—it’s that knowing and doing nothing is easier than acknowledging their complicity. They’d rather paint you as “difficult” than admit that the family is broken. Because if they admit that, they also have to admit they played a part in keeping it that way.

In a narcissistic family, healing is forbidden because healing requires truth—and truth threatens the entire foundation they’ve built their identity upon. So they gaslight, deny, and rewrite history to preserve the myth. And if you try to break free, they'll say you changed, you walked away, you became distant. But the truth is: you were just brave enough to stop pretending.

07/10/2025

The greatest way we can honour those we have lost
is by continuing to live our lives with purpose, joy, and courage,
because deep down, we know that’s exactly what they would want for us.

Though they may no longer walk beside us,
their love remains within us, quiet, steady, unwavering,
urging us forward, reminding us to embrace each day
not in sorrow, but in tribute to the life they lived
and the light they left behind.

In our laughter, they echo.
In our strength, they endure.
In our dreams, they live on.

So we keep reaching,
for the sun through the clouds,
for meaning in the quiet,
for hope when it falters,
and for the courage to keep becoming
the people they believed we could be.

And when we lift our eyes to the night sky,
we remember,
they are the stars above,
watching over us, guiding us gently,
reminding us that love does not end, it only changes form.

As we carry them in our hearts,
we become the living legacy of their love.

~ 'Their Light Lives On' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Jungsuk Lee

06/25/2025

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