A Brighter Day Wellness

11/19/2025

✨ Little reminders for your nervous system today.
You don’t have to hustle to deserve rest, slow progress counts, and you’re allowed to be a whole human with both joy and struggle.
Save this for a day when you need a softer landing. 🤍

11/16/2025

Wanted to hate it…turns out I don’t 😆♥️

11/01/2025

Every eldest daughter
Was the first lamb to the slaughter
So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire ♥︎🔥

10/21/2025

Was it the flash… or pure terror? 👀😭
Evidence in the last photo that Fear Farm won this round 💀📸

10/20/2025

The next best therapy outside the office. Because we still gotta go to therapy, besties 😂☀️🌊

10/10/2025

🎃👻 Even Ghostface needs a therapy session sometimes! Mental health is no joke, even in the spookiest season. Remember, it’s okay to reach out, scream out, or just talk it out. Your feelings are valid—even if they come with a scary mask. 💬

How do you take care of your mental health when things get spooky stressful? Share your tips or funny coping strategies below! Let’s support each other through every season—no tricks, just treats. 🍬🖤

10/06/2025

Coffee Drunk ☕️🤭

06/17/2025

🧠 Struggling with OCD or eating disorder thoughts that just won’t let up?

You’ve probably been told to “challenge” or “reframe” them.
But what if… that’s the very thing keeping you stuck?

The truth is, for many people, traditional CBT doesn’t help.
In fact, thought-challenging can become a mental compulsion of its own.

✨ Instead of trying to fix your thoughts, what if you simply stopped engaging with them?

Thought-stopping—done right—isn’t about forcefully erasing your thoughts. It’s about letting them pass without debate. No proving, no correcting, no spiraling.

This is the approach I use in my work with OCD and eating disorders:
🔹 Let the thought come
🔹 Don’t analyze it
🔹 Don’t fight it
🔹 And let it float on by

You don’t have to win the argument in your head to heal.
Sometimes, doing less is actually the most powerful thing of all.

🤍 If you’re ready for a new way to relate to your thoughts, I’m here to help.

Check out my new blog post further discussing this topic! https://www.abrighterdaywellness.com/post/title-rethinking-ocd-and-eating-disorder-treatment-why-traditional-cbt-falls-short-and-what-actual

☀️A Brighter Day Wellness

05/29/2025

Exciting news — I’m now officially trained in EMDR!

☀️Completing the basic training has been both a professionally enriching and personally meaningful experience. EMDR offers a powerful, evidence-based approach to helping individuals process trauma, and I’m deeply grateful to be adding this modality to my therapeutic work. I’m looking forward to integrating it into sessions and walking alongside clients in their healing journeys with even greater support.

05/15/2025

✨ It’s okay to want your body to change.
✨ And you still deserve love right now.

In eating disorder recovery, you might hear: “Just accept yourself.”
But what if you don’t? What if part of you does want change?

That doesn’t make you shallow. That makes you human.

The goal isn’t to erase the desire to change—it’s to expand your compassion. To hold two truths:

☀️I want to feel different in my body
🌻I still deserve care, food, rest, and kindness today

You don’t have to wait until you “love” your body to begin healing.

You’re worthy now.

Read the full post on the blog- https://www.abrighterdaywellness.com/post/it-s-okay-to-want-change-and-still-deserve-love-right-now.

By Allison Summer, LPC | Specializing in OCD & Eating DisordersIf you’re in recovery from an eating disorder, you’ve probably heard it before:“You just need to accept your body.”“Love yourself exactly as you are.”And maybe when you hear that, you feel a mix of emotions: resistance, frust...

05/08/2025

🧠☀️Movement and Nourishment in Recovery

When you live with OCD or an eating disorder, movement and food can feel more like a battlefield than a path to wellness. What’s meant to support your mental health can become entangled with shame, pressure, or compulsion.

But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

🌿 In my latest blog post, I explore:
✨ How OCD and EDs complicate movement and food
✨ When “healthy habits” hurt more than help
✨ Ways to gently reintroduce movement and nourishment
✨ Why recovery isn’t about control — it’s about connection

You deserve a relationship with your body rooted in care, not fear.
Let’s rethink what healing can look like — one grounded step at a time.

📖 Read the full post here: https://www.abrighterdaywellness.com/post/movement-nutrition-and-mental-health-navigating-the-challenges-with-ocd-and-eating-disorders

By Allison Summer, LPC| Specializing in OCD & Eating DisordersIn the world of mental health, we talk often about self-care—but one area that tends to come with both benefits and complexities is movement. Research consistently shows that physical movement supports mental well-being by reducing stre...