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18/07/2025

By Stacey McGinn Hurst, LCPC, BC-DMT

11/07/2025

🌀 “Legacy burdens often aren’t ours to carry, yet we’ve carried them our whole lives.”
— Stacey Hurst, LCPC

If you feel weighed down by pain that feels bigger than your own story, you’re not alone. Healing begins when we recognize what truly belongs to us—and what doesn’t.

🌿 Learn more about Legacy Unburdening and healing through IFS in Stacey’s latest blog. Link in bio or visit mbconnections.net/blog

09/07/2025

🌿 What is Legacy Unburdening in IFS — and why does it matter?

Therapist Stacey Hurst, LCPC, unpacks how trauma can be passed down through generations—and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy offers a way to begin healing these inherited wounds.

In this insightful blog, Stacey explores:
• The science behind intergenerational trauma
• The meaning of “legacy burdens” in IFS
• Why honoring spiritual beliefs matters in therapy
• How healing can happen through both body and soul

If you carry something that doesn’t quite feel like it started with you—and wonder how to let it go—this blog is for you.

📖 Read the full post now at mbconnections.net/blog
🔗 Or tap the link in bio to begin your healing journey.

07/07/2025

🗣️ Message from Ara Lucia Ashburne, LCPC:

You’re not lazy. You’re not dramatic. You’re out of spoons.

For those living with depression, anxiety, or trauma, everyday tasks—like having a conversation, making a phone call, or going to the grocery store—aren’t just errands. They’re decisions about how to spend your limited energy.

💛 Your exhaustion is valid. Your boundaries matter.
You’re doing the best you can, and that’s enough.

✨ Want to understand Spoon Theory better?
Read the full blog What Are Your Spoons Today? at mbconnections.net/blog or link in bio.

04/07/2025

.🥄 How many spoons do you have today?

Sometimes, just getting through the day takes all your energy. Here’s what 5 spoons might look like:

✅ Getting out of bed
✅ Attending therapy or journaling
✅ Processing a trauma memory
✅ Managing anxiety or a trauma trigger
✅ Social interaction (even with people you love)

Each task costs energy — emotional, mental, and physical. And that’s okay. Your spoons are real, and so is your effort.

💛 Be kind to yourself. Some days, rest is progress.

📖 Learn more about Spoon Theory and how to honor your energy in our full blog, What Are Your Spoons Today? by Ara Lucia Ashburne, LCPC
🔗 Link in bio or visit mbconnections.net/blog

02/07/2025

🥄 What Is Spoon Theory?
Ever felt like the simplest task took everything out of you? Spoon Theory explains why.

💡 Therapist Ara Lucia Ashburne, LCPC, breaks it down in her latest blog—showing how spoons can help us understand daily energy, chronic stress, and invisible exhaustion:

If you’ve ever said “I just can’t today” and didn’t know why—this blog is for you.

📖 Read the full blog: “What Are Your Spoons Today?”
🔗 at mbconnections.net/blog
🔗 or tap the link in bio

💬 Share with someone who needs words for the energy they don’t have.
🧠 Understanding your spoons is the first step to honoring your capacity.

30/06/2025

💥 That’s not overreacting. That’s remembering.
When your reaction feels too big for the moment, it’s not because you’re too sensitive.
It’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect you.

✨ The good news?
Therapy can help you untangle the past from the present.
You can hold pain with more clarity—and less overwhelm.
You can respond, rather than relive.
You are not broken.

💬 In her latest blog, Ara Lucia Ashburne, LCPC, explores this healing process and what it means to carry pain that spans beyond today.

📖 Read “When Pain Feels Bigger Than It Is: The Pinball Effect”
🔗 Link in bio or visit mbconnections.net

🌱 If this resonates, share it or tag someone who needs to hear: you’re not too much—your pain just has roots.

27/06/2025

🎯 What is the Pinball Effect?

In the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, founder Dick Schwartz uses the term The Pinball Effect to describe what happens when present-day pain sets off a cascade of past wounds—like a pinball bouncing off old emotional “bumpers.”

A breakup, a sharp comment, or a moment of rejection doesn’t just hurt in isolation.
It activates every bruise we’ve carried.

🧠 But in therapy, we can slow the game down.
We can visit those old bumpers with compassion—understand them, unburden them, and begin to heal.

So the next time pain shows up, it doesn’t flood you.
It just gets to be what it is: present, real, and manageable.

📖 Read: When Pain Feels Bigger Than It Is: The Pinball Effect
by Ara Lucia Ashburne, LCPC
🔗 Link in bio or visit mbconnections.net

💬 Know someone who feels like their emotions are “too much”?
Send them this blog. It might give them the language they’ve been looking for.

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25/06/2025

🌀 “We’re not just feeling today’s pain; we’re feeling the weight of all the others it woke up.”
– Ara Lucia Ashburne, LCPC

If your emotions ever feel bigger than the moment—you’re not broken. You’re remembering.
In her blog, "When Pain Feels Bigger Than It Is: The Pinball Effect," Ara explores how current pain can stir up old wounds, and why that response is deeply human.

✨ It’s not too much. It’s just layered.

📖 Read the full post at: mbconnections.net
🔗 Link in bio

💛 Share this with someone who feels like their feelings are “too much.” This blog might help them understand why they’re not.

23/06/2025

💥 Why does this hurt so much?
Because it’s not just this moment.

When we experience something painful—like rejection, a loss, or a harsh comment—our brain doesn’t react in isolation. It replays every past hurt that feels even remotely similar.

In her newest blog, Ara explains why your emotional responses aren’t “too much”—they’re just deep. And they make sense.

💛 If you’ve ever wondered “Why do I feel this so strongly?”—this one’s for you.

📖 Read: When Pain Feels Bigger Than It Is: The Pinball Effect
🔗 Available now at mbconnections.net

✨ Tap the link in bio to read the full post and share with someone who needs to feel a little less alone in their big emotions.

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Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 15:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 21:00
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