Sunrise Wellness Collective

04/08/2026

We can’t bypass what we want restored. The Lord is our Shepherd to walk us THROUGH.

The Shepherd doesn’t skip the valley… He walks us through it. While inner healing is possible, true restoration happens in the process, not by pretending the pain isn’t there or avoiding so we don’t have to feel.

Full conversation here: https://youtu.be/2TkH_4at_8s?si=FZPN7HFwElOmjSPI







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04/08/2026

Dr. Sabrina Gunn DO Psychiatrist and Amanda Berry, M.A. (Mandy Lou) are back at it this week talking about “Conditioned by Community.” 👀

And while we have all been wounded one way or another in community, it’s the same mechanism that God ordained us to heal in as we learn to build trust, let down the walls, and enter into new healthy relationships. 👏

Whether we realize it or not, every one of us has been shaped by the communities we’ve been part of.For many, community has been a place of connection, growt...

04/08/2026

You can’t heal what you’ve been taught to hide. Faith was never meant to cover the wound… but to walk you through it.

Amanda Berry, M.A., founder of the Sunrise Wellness Collective, talks about the dilemma of spiritual bypassing in the Church at large.

Full video on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/2TkH_4at_8s?si=qKpbo9P6XuuImOnn

04/04/2026

Happy Saturday friends! It's been a long time coming but we finally had the chance to sit down and begin the conversation... Dr. Sabrina Gunn and Amanda Berry, candid and unscripted, open the door to peer in to the topic of faith, mental health, and the Church at large.

https://youtu.be/2TkH_4at_8s?si=sDE0k9I2FvheRTcZ

P.S. Don't mind the video quality.😅 We were off-the-cuff on this one and our phones were full so we had to last-minute improvise lol! Next time, the come-up! 👏 Enjoy!

What if the Church has been addressing spiritual issues… but missing key pieces of emotional and mental healing?In this first conversation, Amanda Berry, M.A...

03/19/2026

What are you feeling today that might not be rooted in the truth?

It’s ok to acknowledge it and retrain our thoughts. 🧡

03/19/2026

What you may have not realized about a “broken heart.” 👀

While it largely feels emotional… it’s neurological. Your brain actually wires itself around what you’ve experienced, especially in relationships. So when you keep finding yourself drawn to the same kind of person, the same tensions, or the same push and pull.

It’s familiarity.

And your nervous system will choose what’s familiar over what’s safe… until you teach it a new way. Healing doesn’t just come by “moving on” or “praying it away.” We have to slow down enough to recognize the pattern, learn how to regulate our responses, and allow our brain to experience a different kind of connection.

Much like breaking a toddler from a binky! It is gut-wrenching painful to them at first but once they dissociate comfort from it, they are able to exist without it. 👏

It’s possible for us too. Here’s to a regulated self and safe love! 🧡

03/12/2026

Your thoughts are powerful, but they are not always truthful.

A trauma-trained nervous system can produce thoughts that feel urgent, convincing, and absolute. It can tell you that you are unsafe, unworthy, abandoned, or destined to repeat the same painful patterns. But many of these thoughts are not reflections of reality; they are echoes of past experiences your brain learned.

The mind can confuse familiarity with truth.

Learning to pause, question your internal narrative, and bring awareness to the patterns that drive your thinking is one of the first steps toward healing. Not every thought deserves your agreement. Some thoughts are simply signals that your nervous system is trying to protect you based on old information.

You are allowed to challenge the story your mind is telling you. You are allowed to rewrite the patterns that no longer serve you.

End the stigma. Reach out. 🧡

03/05/2026

Most relationships don’t fall apart because people hate each other. They slowly weaken because the real things are never named.

There is tension, hurt, unhealthy patterns that keep repeating. So the relationship learns to survive by staying on the surface.

But what stays unspoken waits underneath, shaping everything about the relationship.

Eventually, every relationship reaches the same crossroads:
Either keep avoiding or finally look at what’s been there all along and walk the path of healing. 🧡

03/01/2026

Staying is choosing not to escape when the moment gets tight.

Staying present when your mind wants to jump ahead.
Staying in the conversation when it would be easier to shut down.
Staying with yourself when discomfort starts to rise.

Not everything uncomfortable is unsafe.

Sometimes staying is how you build the capacity to hold more peace than you used to. 🧡

03/01/2026

Distance.
Return.
Distance again.

Sometimes growth looks like coming back
a little sooner each time.

Not perfect.
Not linear.

Just less time lost
between leaving
and finding your way back.

03/01/2026

Most of what keeps something standing
is hidden.

The visible part gets the credit.
The unseen part does the work.

Roots don’t make a fuss.
They just go deeper
until the weight above them can be carried.

Not everything strong
has to be loud about it.