Dr. Anika Taylor, LPC

Dr. Anika Taylor, LPC PASTOR/THERAPIST/MENTOR/LIFE COACH/ENTREPRENEUR/MOTIVATOR

01/30/2026

Emotional abuse isn’t loud. It’s quiet, sneaky, and deadly. Don’t ignore it. Call it out. Protect yourself.

01/29/2026

The healed you is unrecognizable to the version that was broken.
The broken you survived by adapting.
The healed you lives by discernment.
The healed you no longer begs for access, overexplains, or tolerates what once destroyed you. What you once normalized now feels wrong. What once controlled you no longer has power.
Healing doesn’t make you softer.
Healing makes you clearer.
And clarity threatens people who benefited from your brokenness.

That’s not pride.
That’s growth.

01/28/2026

Balance in relationships is a necessity, not a luxury.

When one person is always pouring and the other is always pulling, that’s not love, it’s depletion. Healthy relationships require mutual effort, mutual respect, and mutual accountability. It may not be perfectly equal every season, but both people must be willing to show up, adjust, and protect the connection.
Anything lopsided for too long will turn into resentment, control, or exhaustion. God never designed relationships to drain one person dry while the other stays comfortable.
Balance looks like giving and receiving.
Speaking and listening.Grace and boundaries.If there’s no balance, there will eventually be damage. Period.

01/27/2026

Healing is detrimental….not to you, but to everything that benefited from your brokenness. Healing costs access, comfort, and proximity to people who only knew how to relate to your wounds. When you heal, you stop tolerating dysfunction disguised as loyalty. You stop overexplaining. You stop bleeding for people who refuse to bandage you.

Healing exposes who needed you sick to feel superior, who needed you silent so they wouldn’t be confronted, who needed you bound so they could remain relevant. That’s why healing disrupts rooms, ends cycles, and offends spirits that thrived on your pain.

But what healing destroys was never sent to sustain you. Healing isn’t the problem. Unhealed access is.

08/12/2025

In order to heal, you must first say, “Ouch, that hurt.”You can’t fix what you won’t admit is broken.

07/30/2025

In today’s world—where outrage spreads faster than understanding—it takes real intention to protect your peace and shield loved ones from the constant noise.

07/24/2025

The mind is a terrible thing to waste on:

• People who left
• What they said about you
• What didn’t work
• Imaginary scenarios
• Unforgiveness
• Jealousy and comparison
• Fear of the unknown
• Trying to prove your worth
• Old arguments
• Trying to fix people
• Missed opportunities
• Bitterness
• Self-doubt
• Overthinking everything
• Living for likes and validation
• Trying to change people who don’t want to change
• Worrying about things that haven’t even happened

Free your mind—so your future can live.

07/18/2025

Perception can be distorted by:
• Past trauma
• Unhealed wounds
• Biases
• Insecurity or pride
• Lack of information

Just because you perceive something a certain way doesn’t mean it’s reality. That’s why we need:
• Discernment
• Self-awareness
• Humility
• Therapy or spiritual healing

07/01/2025

Most people physically walk away from dysfunction but emotionally stay connected.

06/17/2025

One of the most disruptive — and least talked about parts of perimenopause is what it does to your mood. Many women report feeling like they’re emotionally unraveling, and the emotional rollercoaster can be confusing, exhausting, and isolating.

Here’s what’s really going on:

Hormonal Chaos Causes Mood Shifts

During perimenopause, your estrogen and progesterone levels rise and fall unpredictably. These hormones affect neurotransmitters in your brain — especially serotonin and dopamine, which regulate mood, motivation, and emotional stability.

When estrogen drops suddenly, it can feel like:
• Anxiety out of nowhere
• Crying spells that don’t make sense
• Sudden anger or irritability
• Feeling overwhelmed by simple things
• A deep sadness that mimics depression
• Emotional numbness

You’re not losing your mind — your brain is adjusting to hormonal disruption.

06/16/2025

Perimenopause

Perimenopause typically starts in a woman’s 40s, but it can begin as early as the mid-30s, especially for Black women, who often enter perimenopause earlier than women of other races.

What is Perimenopause?

Perimenopause means “around menopause.” It’s the transitional phase before menopause, when your hormones (especially estrogen and progesterone) begin to fluctuate, causing a range of symptoms.

Research shows that Black women often enter perimenopause earlier than white women and may experience more intense and longer-lasting symptoms. These symptoms include:

• Heavy or irregular periods
• Hot flashes and night sweats
• Sleep disturbances
• Mood swings and anxiety
• Vaginal dryness and libido shifts
• Brain fog and fatigue

Yet many are misdiagnosed or dismissed, with symptoms attributed to stress, depression, or simply “aging.”

06/13/2025

Menopause is not just hormonal, it’s relational, emotional, and generational. It affects the entire household.

Real-Life Impact:
- Marriages break because of misunderstood emotional shifts or loss of intimacy.
- Mothers snap at children and feel guilty, but it’s hormone imbalance, not heartlessness.
- Friendships fade due to low energy or mood changes, misread as disinterest.
-Women leave churches or stop serving because of anxiety, depression, or fatigue that nobody talks about.

I have an absolutely fabulous African American OB-GYN who made it a priority to educate every African American Women that came into her office. I am now post menopause and she made the hardest days a whole lot easier. I am lead to spread what she gave me to others.

Looking for a support group? Inbox me.

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