Kati LeBeau, PLPC, NCC

12/18/2025

“Trauma doesn’t mean God is distant. It means your wounds are still speaking louder than His voice.” -Diane Langberg

12/18/2025

Your story doesn’t cease to exist simply because no one ever bothered to listen to it. 🫶🏼

12/16/2025

♥️

If your peace only exists when everything aligns perfectly, then what you’re holding onto isn’t peace at all — it’s control.

Real peace is deeper than ideal circumstances. It’s the ability to stay grounded even when plans shift, answers delay, and life feels uncertain. Growth happens when you learn to breathe through discomfort, trust yourself in the unknown, and choose calm without needing everything to make sense first.

Life will always bring change. People will change. Seasons will change. What truly matters is who you become in the middle of it all. When you stop fighting uncertainty and start flowing with it, you discover a stronger, wiser, more emotionally mature version of yourself.

That steadiness — the kind that doesn’t shake at every disruption — is the real evidence of inner work. And that, my dear, is true growth.

12/15/2025

Your new life is going to cost you your old one.

It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. 

It’s going to cost you relationships and friends.

It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.

It doesn’t matter.

The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side.

You’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward.

Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved.

Instead of being understood, you’re going to be seen.

All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are. 

Remaining attached to your old life is the first and final act of self-sabotage, and releasing it is what we must prepare for to truly be willing to see real change.

—Brianna Wiest, The Mountain is You

12/14/2025

This has been coming up in my sessions lately. The question is never “Am I too much?” The question is always, “Am I communicating my needs properly?”

Timing matters in relationships. Are you considering the other person’s capacity in that moment?

Delivery must be done in a rational state rather than an emotional one. Are you operating from a wounded, insecure, fear-based place or one of love and wholeness?

Once your needs are expressed appropriately, examine patterns in how others show up for you. If they can’t meet you where you are, it’s a sign they’re not in alignment with what you require. That’s not a testament of your worth, just their capacity. 🫶🏼

12/06/2025

“Stop leading from your wounds and start loving from your wholeness.” -someone brilliant ♥️

12/05/2025

Thissss.

Let's focus on how we can help children through hard things instead of how we can punish them 💕

12/03/2025

If you or your child watch a lot of reels, Tiktoks, or Youtube shorts, you may have noticed a negative change. A new study on the effects of short form video consumption has revealed the detrimental mental and emotional effects we all suspected. More scrolling leads to the following in ALL ages:

❌Inattentiveness
❌Less self control
❌Higher stress levels
❌Anxiety
❌Depression
❌Less enjoyment of slower activities

Do yourself a favor, and limit your exposure to short-form video. Your quality of life depends on it. 🫶🏼

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41231585/

11/25/2025

I’ve had holidays I didn’t think I could live through… grief and trauma can be thieves like that.

I’ve had holidays where I thought my heart could burst because of the goodness of life.

Wherever you find yourself this season, don’t forget to slow down and just acknowledge the moment. Maybe you need to give yourself time to mourn the losses or maybe you need to celebrate the wins. Perhaps it’s a little of both. I pray you’re able to find the gratitude in it all.
🙏🏼🫶🏼

11/17/2025

A little something on my heart as we go into the last week of school before Thanksgiving break…

Everyone is tired and in desperate need of time to relax… this includes adults AND kids. Tired = less capacity, less emotional control.

The coming holidays means trauma is fresh for many. Our bodies could be bracing for impact even if we aren’t mentally aware, which means a small window of tolerance, fatigue, irritability, heaviness.

Many are saving money for gifts. Less money = more stress.

We are in the midst of food stamps being cutoff. Some are feeling the pressure of holidays on top of basic needs not being met. Stressed parents usually (not always) = stressed kids.

Let’s remember this context as we go throughout the week and use it to do the following:

1. Be patient with each other.
2. Be gentle with ourselves. Check in with yourself frequently to facilitate more control over emotions.
3. Take micro breaks often, even if it’s just intentional breathing while doing a task.
4. Understand that negative behavior is a sign of deregulation. It’s not intentional… a need is not met. Instead of asking what’s wrong, let’s ask what’s needed.

11/15/2025