Dr.Charryse Johnson LCMHC, NCC

Dr.Charryse Johnson LCMHC, NCC Mental Health Counselor & Speaker. Passionate about helping indviduals overcome personal barriers an Let's rewrite your story!!

Proudly raised by a single parent and having overcome numerous obstacles and setbacks, Charryse is driven and determined to spread hope and encouragement. She operates from the belief that we are each more than the sum of our circumstances. Charryse helps women explore the concepts of acceptance and authenticity while examining the internal and external messages that drive their behaviors. Specifically, through the principles of Health at Every Size (HAES) she specializes in helping women examine the powerful connection between food & feelings. Are you tired of living by the self destructive thoughts and patterns that fuel your insecurities, yet you have the desire to be confident in body, mind, and spirit?

12/04/2025

3 Things No One Told Me About ADHD & Menopause

No one prepared me for how ADHD and menopause would collide.
Not socially. Not emotionally. Not neurologically.
If you’re in this season, this is for you. ↓

1️⃣ Your brain isn’t “losing it”—it’s recalibrating.
Estrogen shifts impact dopamine, which impacts focus, motivation, and emotional regulation.
This isn’t you being inconsistent. This is your neurobiology changing.

2️⃣ Emotional reactivity hits different—and it’s NOT a personality flaw.
Tears, irritability, overwhelm… it’s not because you’re weak.
Hormonal changes narrow your window of tolerance, and ADHD already makes regulation harder.
What you’re experiencing is physiology, not failure.

3️⃣ The tools that used to work… may stop working.
Planners, routines, color-coding, coping strategies—your old systems may not fit your new brain.
That doesn’t mean nothing works. It means you need evolved, season-appropriate strategies.

Here’s the truth:
You’re not broken. You’re not becoming “less capable.”
Your brain is shifting and asking for updated care, not criticism.

If this resonates, save it. Share it.
And remember—you deserve support that understands both ADHD and menopause, not surface-level advice or shame.

✨ More on this coming soon. Let me know what part you want me to break down next.

Ready to step into 2026 with clarity, courage, and intention?Join our Virtual Vision Board 2026 Workshop on Saturday, Ja...
12/03/2025

Ready to step into 2026 with clarity, courage, and intention?

Join our Virtual Vision Board 2026 Workshop on Saturday, January 3, from 10am–12pm EST via Zoom!

This immersive, purpose-driven experience is designed to help you move beyond wishful thinking and into aligned action. Together, we’ll map out a year marked by intentional choices, sustainable habits, and a vision that feels both inspiring and achievable.

Here’s what you’ll receive:

✅ Digital tools + guided PDFs to help you organize and visualize your goals
✅ Mindset strategies rooted in neuroscience to support consistency and momentum
✅ A new step-by-step framework to transform your vision into daily decisions that create real results

Whether your focus is career growth, relationships, well-being, financial stability, or personal evolution, this workshop will help you clarify what matters—and create a grounded plan for how to get there.

No prior experience is needed. Just bring your device, your openness, and your commitment to making 2026 the year you stop delaying your dreams and start designing them.

Spaces are limited—and yes, a full replay will be available!

📌 TO REGISTER: https://dr-charryse-johnson.mykajabi.com/offers/QXGk6FUs/checkout

11/27/2025

You don’t have to be happy on Thanksgiving.
You don’t have to perform joy, hide your heaviness, or pretend the day feels easier than it is.

For some, today brings connection.
For others, it brings grief, pressure, loneliness, complicated family dynamics, or the weight of trying to “hold it together.”

If that’s you—there’s nothing wrong with you. Your nervous system is responding to a real experience, not a holiday expectation.

Here are a few gentle anchors to help you move through the day:

• Choose regulation over performance.
If you need to step away, breathe, or take a 5-minute reset—honor it. Emotional safety always comes before social expectations.

• Keep one small boundary.
Decide now what you will or won’t participate in (conversations, food pressure, emotional labor). One boundary can protect your whole day.

• Feed yourself with intention.
Not just food—rest, silence, hydration, pacing. Your body isn’t a machine, and it doesn’t have to “push through.”

• Let today be honest, not perfect.
You’re allowed to show up exactly as you are.

Wishing you strength, steadiness, and the courage to take care of you today. 🖤
— Dr. Charryse Johnson

11/26/2025

At night, when the world gets quiet, our thoughts often grow louder. 💭

You start replaying what you didn’t do, what you said wrong, or how you could’ve done better. 😔

And before you know it, that gentle reflection turns into self-blame.

But that voice isn’t always helping you heal; sometimes, it’s toxic shame speaking.

Learning to tell it apart from healthy shame can bring a little more peace back to your evenings.

If you’d like to understand this more gently, you can watch the full video inside CADRE, a space created for calm reflection and healing. 🌟

It can change the way you speak to yourself at the end of the day. 💖

Comment CADRE and I’ll send you more info, or visit the link in my bio. 📥

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Follow me for more moments of calm and reminders to treat yourself kindly.















11/25/2025

Sometimes we speak to ourselves in ways we’d never speak to someone we love.

We rush to call it failure when it’s really growth unfolding quietly. 🌷

Gentle reframes don’t erase what’s hard, but they help us meet ourselves with understanding instead of judgment. 🤗

Because maybe,
💭 “I failed” is really “I learned so much.”
💭 “It’s too late” becomes “Now is the perfect time.”
💭 “I’m behind” turns into “There’s still more ahead of me.”

Reframing doesn’t mean pretending everything’s okay.

It means remembering that growth can be honest and gentle at the same time.

If you’re learning to practice gentleness in your life, check the link in my bio for resources to guide your growth with compassion and clarity. 💌

P.S. Follow me for more gentle reflections to come back to on the hard days.

P.P.S. Share this reel with someone who might need this softness too. 💝



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11/23/2025

Menopause doesn’t just show up in our bodies — it impacts the brain, mood, and emotional regulation.
When hormone levels fluctuate, so can sleep, stress tolerance, concentration, and even the way we process everyday events. For many women, this season brings unexpected anxiety, irritability, and a sense of emotional overwhelm that can feel “out of nowhere.”

But here’s the truth:
These changes are physiological, not personal failures.
They’re the result of shifts in estrogen and progesterone that influence neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and GABA — the systems that help regulate mood and calm the nervous system.

If you’re noticing new mental health symptoms during menopause, you’re not “being dramatic.” You’re experiencing a real, measurable transition that deserves understanding, support, and care.

Awareness is empowerment.
Support is treatment.
And you don’t have to navigate this season alone.

Today would have been my mother’s birthday.And even after all these years, there are no perfect words for the kind of ab...
11/20/2025

Today would have been my mother’s birthday.

And even after all these years, there are no perfect words for the kind of absence a mother leaves behind. Losing her created a wound that time doesn’t erase—it simply teaches you how to breathe around it.

My mother was breathtaking, not because of how she looked, but because of who she was. Gentle and unshakeably strong. Tender and deeply principled. The kind of woman whose presence made you feel seen, safe, and loved without condition.

Anything good you recognize in me is rooted in her. Her courage. Her resilience. Her unwavering faith. Her ability to love with a generosity that felt like sunlight.

Today, my heart is full of gratitude for every sacrifice she made, every prayer she whispered, and every step she took to bring me into this world and shape the woman I am becoming.

I carry her with me—in my work, in my words, in the way I care for others, and in the quiet moments where I still reach for her wisdom.

There’s an angel watching over me, guiding me, grounding me, reminding me of who I am.

And I call her Mom. 💜

There’s a kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix; the one that comes from carrying too much for too long. 😪RESTORE RE...
11/20/2025

There’s a kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix; the one that comes from carrying too much for too long. 😪

RESTORE RETREAT 2026 is a space to set some of it down, to rest in stillness, reconnect with your faith, and remember what wholeness feels like. 🍂

Join us from September 17- 20, 2026, at the peaceful William Black Lodge in Montreat, NC, for days filled with stillness, prayer, and quiet renewal.

Think of it as a pause button for your soul.

Just room to rest, reflect, and return to the parts of you that got quiet somewhere along the way. 💝

💌 Comment RETREAT2026 and I’ll personally send you all the details.

We only have a few rooms available, so if your heart’s tugging at this, don’t wait too long!

👉 To make this accessible, payment plans are available at checkout via Klarna and Afterpay.

P.S. Follow me for gentle reminders to slow down and come home to yourself. 💌















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