Angie Moates, LMHC / Psychotherapist / Life Transition Specialist

07/29/2025

Living with repressed emotions can lead to mental anguish, depression, and anxiety. Here are 15 behaviors to help you let them go.

07/27/2025

07/26/2025

Your mental health matters because when you believe that there is hope for the future, you choose to keep going.

Your mental health matters because stigma is still a loud voice in our society, and you deserve to hear voices that rise above that noise with help and support.

Your mental health matters because your ancestors fought for you to live a life that is honest, joyful, and full of opportunity.

Your mental health matters because too often you are told to keep it to yourself, rather than being invited to be fully seen and known.

Mental health is cultural health. It’s not separate from generational healing. It is a core piece of it. When people feel safe enough to ask for help, they thrive.

Your mental health matters—period. Don’t ever forget it.

07/07/2025

🧠 Keeping it in your head vs Writing it down 📝
Your mind is a beautiful place—but it’s not a storage unit.

When you keep everything in your head—worries, to-do lists, emotions—it gets cluttered, loud, and heavy.

But when you write it down? You create space. You gain clarity. You take back control.

Journaling, brain-dumping, even scribbling on a napkin—it’s not about perfection. It’s about relief.

🌀 Mental health starts with making the invisible visible.
📓 Try writing it down. It might just be the exhale your brain has been waiting for.

07/04/2025

AI can do a lot...summarize emails, help plan vacations, even answer tough questions at 2AM. But here’s what it can’t do: replace the power of human connection.

🧠 AI is not trauma-informed
🧠 It can’t read your body language
🧠 It won’t notice when you’re dissociating
🧠 It can’t build a therapeutic relationship
🧠 It doesn’t know your life context
🧠 It can reinforce bias without even trying
🧠 It may sound confident when it’s completely wrong
🧠 It doesn’t care about you, because it can’t

Digital tools can support mental health, but they are not — and never will be — a substitute for therapy.

💻 Read more about how AI and therapy intersect (and where they really don’t) on the GoodTherapy blog — https://bit.ly/3I6JWvc

07/03/2025

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