Healing Hearts of Indy, Inc

01/14/2026

Two things can be true at the same time: You can be incredibly grateful for your life AND feel completely overwhelmed by it. ❤️‍🩹

Life isn’t black and white. You can be:

Productive AND need a break.

Healing AND still hurting.

Strong AND needing support.

Holding space for both is the first step toward finding your balance. If the "overwhelmed" part is feeling a bit heavy today, check out these simple ways to find some calm in the chaos.

Read more here: https://reachoutrecovery.com/5-essential-mindfulness-tips/

👇 Which "two things" are you balancing right now? Let’s normalize the middle ground in the comments!

01/14/2026

At Healing Hearts of Indy, we believe the most important part of therapy is connection!

Our licensed counselors bring not only strong clinical training, but genuine compassion, experience, and care for the people they serve. Our team is dedicated to creating a safe, supportive space where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered to grow.

Whether you’re navigating stress, anxiety, life transitions, or seeking deeper personal insight, we’re here to walk alongside you.Taking the first step can feel hard, but you don’t have to do it alone.

01/14/2026

01/08/2026

01/08/2026

When a child stops crying because they were ignored, shamed, threatened, or frightened,
it can look like calm —
but it isn’t.

It’s the nervous system protecting itself.
It’s a child realising that expressing distress isn’t safe.
So the feelings don’t disappear —
they go underground.

For a developing brain, calming down is not a solo skill.
It’s a relational one.
It happens when someone stays close,
offers understanding,
and helps the body feel safe enough
to move through what it’s feeling.

Control can stop behaviour.
But connection teaches regulation.

When we focus only on compliance,
children may learn to silence their emotions
instead of learning how to tolerate, name, and process them.
Over time, that disconnection doesn’t vanish —
it often shows up later
in how they cope, relate, and self-soothe.

This doesn’t mean parents who struggle are failing.
It means parenting asks a lot of us —
especially if no one ever helped us calm down
when we were young.

You don’t have to get it right every time.
You will get tired.
You will lose your cool.
What matters most is repair —
coming back, owning it,
and showing your child that their feelings
don’t cost them your love.

Because the goal was never quiet children.
It was children who feel safe enough
to stay connected to themselves —
and to us. ❤️

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01/07/2026

The truth is: domestic violence often begins long before anything physical ever happens and in many cases, it never becomes physical at all, which is why so many people miss it.

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Domestic violence often begins long before anything physical ever happens and in many cases, it never becomes physical at all, which is why so many people miss it.

01/03/2026

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12/25/2025

Growing Around Grief is a model created by grief counselor Dr. Lois Tonkin. Tonkin came up with the model after speaking to a client about the death of their child. The woman told Tonkin that at first grief filled every part of her life. She drew a picture with a circle to represent her life and shading to indicate her grief. It was all-consuming.⁠
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She had thought that as time went by the grief would shrink and become a much smaller part of her life. But what happened was different. The grief stayed just as big, but her life grew around it. There were times where she felt the grief as intensely as when her child first died. But there were other times where she felt she lived her life in the space outside the circle.⁠
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This view of grief does not tell someone that their grief will go away in time. You will never be "over it." It acknowledges that there will be some days where you feel grief as strongly as you did when the person first died. But there will also be days when you are able to move on with other parts of your life.⁠
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The "growing around grief" model shows how we can still grieve the loss of our loved one while carrying on with our own lives. It shows that we can grow a new life which includes the loss.⁠

🎨 Art by creative.clinical.psychologist on Instagram
✍️ Words by Cruse Bereavement Support