Toni-Cara Stellitano, LCSW

03/02/2025

I volunteered with the Art Education Department at the Harwood Museum The Harwood Museum of Art today for Dr.Seuss Day~ check out all the FLOWERS! ✨ Literature inspires creativity, and parallel image creation… check out how INSPIRED these images are ✨ 🌳 🌺 ✨

07/19/2024

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07/12/2024

I am now licensed in the Grand (Canyon) state of Arizona * and am feeling excited about bringing live offerings to the West Coast/ Desert 🌵 region 🏜️.

Stay tuned for another Live Virtual Med-Free Parenting Course happening next month, with an extensive Q & A for your specific family concerns ✨

Date coming soon

For more information or to be added to mailing list,

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* I continue to be licensed in the states of NY and FL, and maintain National Certification as an Integrative Mental Health Professional ✨

06/28/2024

✨ ART AS TRAUMA THERAPY ✨
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We anchor deep-value into our selves when we stay with the hard-feeling places inside, when we choose Connection with The Body, over Disconnect (self injury thru self judgment and emotional repression) we bridge the past and the present, merging and integrating this “now moment” into a new and wondrous spiritual reality 🌈 where more can be felt, and more joy can be held, because we have touched the face of the (wounded) child ✨ and given her what she did not receive in the moment of the original emotional impact…

✨ 🌈 Presence ✨ and Connection 🌈

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✨ God give me your Electric Touch

✨ Mountains Rising from the Solar Plexus, electrified from the Inside Out

✨ Rainbow Bridges merging places of Hard disconnect

✨ We draw what we need

✨ We draw the Truth of what we Feel, infusing a new realitY into to this ONE

Make it holy, because it is.
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Oil pastels on paper
“Rainbow Bridge”
Copyright TCS

06/18/2024

Ever wonder how pomegranates began?? Sort of like us…as ✨ STARS ✨

Did you know that pomegranates are gut-friendly, containing prebiotic properties which can aid in digestion?

Gut health = Mental Health

Want to know more?
Let’s connect
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06/15/2024

Cleansing and detoxing my body is a huge part of maintaining my med-free mental health regiment.

I took pharmaceuticals for anxiety and depression for 20 years (!!) and these types of drugs (Selective Serontin Re-Uptake Inhibitors, SSRIs) wreak havoc on the body, especially the liver (which is our body’s filter) and drastically alter the gut terrain, which is where over 95% of Serontonin is produced ! (Korn, 2014)

This is why so many people who begin taking SSRIs for depression and anxiety (Prozac, Celexa, Lexapro, to name a few) end up experiencing digestive issues as side effects, losing or gaining weight, stomach upset, loss of appetite, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

These medications can also lead to gut permeability , aka, “leaky gut” leading to not only inflammation and food intolerances, but creating nutritional deficits that compromise the body’s ability to produce Serotonin, the exact neurotransmitter that the pharmaceuticals are targeting to increase..

How ironic! ✨

The solution is often health care providers prescribing MORE pharmaceuticals (!) and the cycles goes on and on…

One of the ways to feel more empowered around your mental health is to take a solid inventory of your diet…

Want more information on ways to support your mental health through detoxing, cleansing and other dietary adjustments?

Leave a note below 👇 and let’s connect

*Serotonin = feel good neurotransmitter that supports happy mood

06/12/2024

I used to draw women falling and screaming, now I draw pictures of rivers and rocks, stones, and sunsets. ✨

This is what happens when you step into the river of life, unafraid of drownig, and receive what it is that is here for you, staying open to a personal evolution.
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Notice how this image holds the energetics of words and of sentiment, conveys an easy feeling on the inside, like a mirror 🪞 ✨.

Want to know your peace? Want to see your Happy on the outside?

Go make art. Let it hold you in the frequency of your desire…. And experience what it is to “hold yourself” both literally and metaphorically, through the process of creatively bringing your full Self forward.

PS.. It is not lost on me that I had to go to the desert in order to find water ( inside). No person, place, or condition is my Supply. God is my supply and made manifest through the Reality of Me.

What would you title this? Lmk in comments 👇 🌵 ✨

05/24/2024

May 2024 Art Creations .. in the works ..
It’s been a good creative month of change and flight, connection and of flow.
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Did you know that it takes 400 repetitions to change and heal neurologically? And that when you make changes through PLAY it only takes 10-20 repetitions??

ART IS PLAY (!!)

Go Make art, restructure your brain, and heal your heart ♥️

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Wishing you all a great weekend
Xo

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05/18/2024

Our Mental Health can be managed and WE. CAN. THRIVE WITHOUT pharmaceuticals... my life is testimony to this TRUTH. Want to learn more about what I do to maintain balance and be in my JOY?
The key is learning REGULATION, not relying on MEDICATION...
Comment below for more information, WE ARE MEANT TO FEEL IT ALL!



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05/14/2024

Med-Free Mental health specialist here!
After taking myself off of psychotropics 8 years ago, I know alllll about the natural ways to support the body in anxiety and depression.

I have since become certified in Integrative Mental Health, Trauma Informed Creative and Expressive Arts therapies, and IFS work…. Reach out!

I offer clinical supervision in med-free treatment modalities for children and families as well!

Regulation, Not medication! 💊
Especially for the little ones!
Learn how (!!!)

Connect 👇

05/13/2024

Hello!

I am your MED-FREE parenting expert (!!)


Servicing all of Florida and New York!
Website in comments below 👇
Xoxox

05/07/2024

“It is safe to let go of old ways of being”
5/5/24

Left-Handed affirmations access Emotional Centers in the Brain. This,
Coupled with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can change Neuro patterns to rewrite your body’s stress response.

Want to Learn More?
Contact me
Regulation Without Medication
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