Reclaiming Minds Therapy and Wellness

Reclaiming Minds Therapy and Wellness We are a group therapy practice dedicated to women of color and allies as they heal and recover.

Mental health awareness means something different when you're actually living it. It's not always a crisis. Sometimes it...
05/01/2026

Mental health awareness means something different when you're actually living it. It's not always a crisis. Sometimes it's the fatigue you can't shake. The irritability that you don't even understand, or the drift away from people and things you love.

This month is an invitation to pay attention to those quieter signals and to respond with intention, not urgency.

Small, consistent acts of care are what tending to yourself actually looks like. Not a complete overhaul. Not waiting until things fall apart. Just a pause. A breath. An honest answer to the question what do I need right now?

If this resonated and you're ready to go deeper this summer, I'll be facilitating two separate groups in June and July. First up :The Science of Self-Trust.

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I want to start it by saying this simply: Your mental health is not a crisis t...
05/01/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I want to start it by saying this simply: Your mental health is not a crisis to manage. It is a part of your life to tend to.

How we think, feel, and move through the world is shaped by so much—our histories, our relationships, the baggage we carry that was never ours to begin with. And yet, again and again, we show up. We push through. We perform "fine." We perform wellness.

This month, I'm inviting something different: not just awareness, but honest, compassionate attention. To what you're feeling. To what your body has been trying to tell you. To the parts of you that are quietly asking to be seen.

Mental health is not a destination. It is the ongoing practice of coming home to yourself. We are here for that journey... all of it.

Drop a comment and tell me: What does tending to your mental health look like for you right now?

It's a special kind of exhaustion that sets in when you have literally done everything you know to do. I mean, you plann...
04/30/2026

It's a special kind of exhaustion that sets in when you have literally done everything you know to do. I mean, you planned. You prayed. You pushed. You pivoted. And still met with resistance.

This is where the paradox of surrender lives. A lot of us have been taught to fight for every inch of space, and that releasing control is the same as giving up. But surrender, in its truest form, is not defeat. It is a super radical act of trust — trust in a process that is larger than what the mind can manage alone.

There is wisdom in knowing when effort has done its work and when the next move belongs to something beyond your doing.

You are not failing when you surrender. You are finally allowing.

What would it feel like to stop managing the outcome and start trusting the unfolding?

There is something sacred about the decision to begin. And I don't mean the version of beginning that looks polished or ...
04/30/2026

There is something sacred about the decision to begin. And I don't mean the version of beginning that looks polished or certain—the one that says, "I am ready to do the work and see where it takes me."

We are now accepting new clients at Reclaiming Minds Therapy and Wellness. If you have been carrying more than you should have to carry alone, this is your invitation to put some of it down in a space that honors the full complexity of who you are.

Scan the QR code or visit ReclaimingMindsTherapy.com to get started.

That voice that tells you that you are too much, not enough, too visible, too needy? It is not yours. It was handed to y...
04/30/2026

That voice that tells you that you are too much, not enough, too visible, too needy? It is not yours. It was handed to you...through a parent's disappointment, a family that couldn't understand you, a culture that required your smallness to ensure your survival. And naturally you absorbed it so early, so completely, you stopped questioning whether it was even true.

And for women of color, that voice carries extra weight. It speaks in the language of respectability. It measures you against standards designed to keep you palatable and unthreatening. It says work twice as hard and never let them see you struggling. That is not wisdom. That is an inherited script. The work is not to silence the critic. It is to trace it back to its origin — and then decide, with full awareness, whether it still deserves a seat at the table....YOUR TABLE.

That is exactly the work we are doing in June. The Science of Self-Trust — Group One of the Summer Wellness Series. Four Wednesday evenings. Self trust isnt always granted, sometimes its learned.

Limited space.

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The question is not whether your intuition is speaking. The question is whether you can hear it underneath the fear, the...
04/29/2026

The question is not whether your intuition is speaking. The question is whether you can hear it underneath the fear, the noise, the years of being taught that your own knowing was not to be trusted.

Intuition does not rush you. It settles. Fear contracts. It narrows. Learning to tell the difference is not a mindset exercise; it is a somatic, deeply personal practice that begins with slowing down long enough to listen. That is the work. And, thankfully, it is learnable.

And if you are ready to do this work in community — the Summer Wellness Series begins in June with Group One: The Science of Self-Trust.

Four Wednesday evenings. Limited space.

Eventually, when you're doing the inner work on yourself, there comes a shift where being chosen is no longer the goal. ...
04/29/2026

Eventually, when you're doing the inner work on yourself, there comes a shift where being chosen is no longer the goal. You begin to notice what you're being chosen for and WHO is doing the choosing.

You also begin to pay more awareness to whether it aligns with the woman you're becoming. That awareness changes everything. You stop performing for connection and start discerning it. As a result, you become someone who chooses, too.

So ask yourself, who are you when you're not waiting on someone to love you?

Your overwhelm is speaking. What if the chaos isn't something to fix, but something to listen to?This isn't about better...
04/28/2026

Your overwhelm is speaking. What if the chaos isn't something to fix, but something to listen to?

This isn't about better planners or more discipline. It's about understanding why your systems keep breaking down and building new ones that honor how you actually function.

Overwhelmed to Organized: Virtual Executive Skills Building Group for Adult Women Led by Anequa Blakely, LPC.

Learn executive function skills grounded in nervous system awareness and psychological safety. Build sustainable systems from the inside out.

Limited spots available.

DM or email admin@reclaimingmindstherapy.com to learn more.

You were not born doubting yourself. That doubt was taught — through the moments your feelings were dismissed, your need...
04/27/2026

You were not born doubting yourself. That doubt was taught — through the moments your feelings were dismissed, your needs were inconvenient, your knowing was quietly overruled. Over time, you stopped trusting the one person who has always been with you. YOU.

The Science of Self-Trust is Group One of the Virtual Summer Wellness Series — a four-week closed group experience meeting Wednesday evenings in June. We will go into it all.... the neuroscience, the shadow work, the attachment patterns, and the places where survival quietly replaced self-trust. And we will find our way back — together.

Group Two meets in July: a therapeutic exploration of bell hooks' Communion: The Female Search for Love. Two months. Two containers. One arc of coming home.

Link in bio. Space is limited and held with care.

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Identity is not a destination. It is a living, breathing process that is always unfolding, always becoming.Its a lifelon...
04/27/2026

Identity is not a destination. It is a living, breathing process that is always unfolding, always becoming.

Its a lifelong work of moving toward wholeness, not perfection. And wholeness requires that we give ourselves permission to outgrow who we once had to be.

You are allowed to change your mind. Your story. Your self-definition. Growth is not betrayal.... it is actually just remembering.

Who are you becoming this week?

Self-trust is one of those things that gets quietly dismantled by systems, relationships, and internalized messaging lon...
04/22/2026

Self-trust is one of those things that gets quietly dismantled by systems, relationships, and internalized messaging long before most even realize what's happening.

You were not taught to doubt yourself overnight. And you will not unlearn it in a single moment of willpower or motivation. And it will be highly uncomfortable for a while before it feels natural. But that doesn't mean it's not work to be done.

Self-trust is a practice. A return. A slow and intentional coming home to what you have always known — before the world told you not to trust it.

People-pleasing kept you safe once. Your nervous system learned early that being agreeable, accommodating, and easy to b...
04/21/2026

People-pleasing kept you safe once. Your nervous system learned early that being agreeable, accommodating, and easy to be around was how you survived. That was wisdom, not weakness.

But at some point, the strategy outlived the threat. And what once protected you began to cost you — your voice, your needs, your sense of self. Fawning is tricky like that because it lives in the shadows. It wears the mask of kindness while quietly erasing you. It's a pattern so deeply conditioned that it begins to feel like personality. It isn't. It's protection that no longer serves you.

Un-fawning isn't about becoming harder. It's about becoming whole. It's learning that your truth is safe. That you are allowed to take up space without earning it first.

Swipe through and sit with what resonates. Then drop a comment — what does fawning look like in your life?

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