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Sabrina Smith, LCSW-S

11/21/2025

Somatic Practices for Nervous System Support
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11/19/2025

Gentle reminder inspired by Christine Miserandino’s Spoon Theory: your energy, time, and emotional bandwidth are not limitless.

You don’t need to earn rest or justify saying no. You get to listen to your body, honor your limits, and care for your capacity with compassion.

✨ Be curious: How many spoons do you have today, and what helps you refill them?
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11/17/2025

The “spoon theory” was created by writer Christine Miserandino as a way to explain what it’s like to live with limited energy - every task, conversation, or choice costs a spoon.

Over time, it’s become a gentle reminder for all of us: our energy is not endless, and honoring that truth is an act of self-compassion.

You don’t have to give away spoons you don’t have. You’re allowed to rest, protect your capacity, and choose where your energy goes.

✨ How many spoons do you have today, and what would be kind with what’s left?
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11/14/2025

So much of healing is learning that closeness doesn’t have to mean merging. You can care deeply and keep your center. You can offer warmth without losing your grounding. You can love without disappearing.
That’s the space of co-regulation - where safety breathes, connection expands, and you remember that being “with” doesn’t mean being “without yourself.”
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11/12/2025

Myth vs Reality: Co-Regulation Edition
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11/10/2025

It’s easy to confuse care with over-responsibility.

When you’ve learned to track everyone else’s emotions, staying centered in your own can feel unfamiliar, even selfish.

But co-regulation isn’t detachment, it’s balance.
It’s the practice of being present without absorbing, connected without losing yourself.

This is what healthy connection sounds like:
“I can care about you without abandoning me.”
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11/07/2025

The therapist edition of “unapologetically me.”
Coffee? Always.
Silence? Intentional.
Boundaries? Non-negotiable.
Apologies? None. 😌
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11/05/2025

If you recognize yourself in these, it doesn’t mean you’re fake. It means you learned to adapt.

Masking is what we do when being fully ourselves once felt unsafe. It’s how we protected connection, avoided conflict, and tried to earn belonging in places that couldn’t hold our whole selves.

There’s nothing wrong with you for having masks. They were intelligent, protective responses to your environment.

Healing isn’t about forcing yourself to drop them all at once. It’s about slowly building enough safety and self-trust to decide when and where you can be more fully seen.
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11/03/2025

So many of us learned to hide who we are to stay connected - to be the easy one, the calm one, the one who doesn’t rock the boat.

Masking isn’t deceitful. It’s adaptive. It’s how we learned to survive when authenticity felt risky. But over time, it can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves, unsure of what’s real and what’s rehearsed.

Healing isn’t about ripping away the mask. It’s about creating enough safety, inside and around us, to gently come home to who we’ve always been.
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10/27/2025

Taking a little pause from social media (and blogging) this week as I dive into a training that I’ve been really looking forward to!

Back soon!!
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10/24/2025

The Part That Protects. The Self That Sees.
Two inner voices:
✨ What the protector part says.
💫 What the authentic self says.
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10/23/2025

✨ From One Therapist to Another ✨
 This series is a reminder that doubt doesn’t mean you’re failing, and discomfort doesn’t mean you’re in the wrong field. Being a therapist is beautiful, messy, and deeply human. These posts are here to normalize the inner experiences we don’t always talk about, and to help you feel a little less alone in the work.

I offer case consultations for fellow therapists who want a thoughtful, grounding space to reflect on clinical work, attachment themes, and the parts of us that show up in the room.

Reach out if you’re interested.
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https://www.sabrinasmiththerapy.com/

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