Carolyn McElroy Counseling

07/02/2025

Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing out.

06/12/2025

💯

Not everyone’s going to get it.
Your depth.
Your fire.
Your strange and beautiful way of being.

Some will overlook your light.
Some will mock your magic.
Some will try to shrink what they don’t understand.

Let them.

Their opinion isn’t a mirror.
It’s just noise.

And if they can’t see your brilliance?
That’s not your fault.
That’s a them problem.

You’re still magnificent.
You’re still magic.
And they’re still… di*****ds.
꩜🕊️♥︎ Ella

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04/18/2025

Much tenderness

When you revisit
The scrapbook
Of your past selves,
May you flip through
The pages with tenderness.

Some snapshots
May reflect on harder seasons
Where you felt
Caught in the shadow
Of your past
Wondering how long
This deep fog would last.

Some still-frames
May remind you of the darkness
And the devastation of deep grief,
When your doubts made you unsure
Of what to believe.

But may you look
At these versions of yourself,
And see the beauty
Of who you’ve become
Start to shine through
In every moment
Captured in your heart,
In every memory
Engrained on your soul.

May you feel the forgiveness,
The compassion,
The empathy
The grace,
The hope
The flickers of light
That greeted you every step
Of the way.

Surely,
There’s been pain.
Surely,
There’s been rain.
Surely,
There’s been heartbreak.
Surely,
There have been days
Of incomprehensible ache.

But as you look
At page after page,
I hope you can say:
Surely,
There’s been love.

-Liz Newman

04/18/2025

This tracks . . .

200.2K likes, 1472 comments. “I’ll keep going and feel all of these stupid feelings that I don’t want to feel. The end.”

04/06/2025

❤️❤️❤️

💁‍♀️🫶💪

04/05/2025

And there is art and poetry in that!

03/09/2025

May you get all the rest that you need today.

03/08/2025

Let’s do it! ✊🏻

01/26/2025

10/22/2024

This is true for me. Making, finding, and giving meaning has helped me through many difficult times and situations.

10/11/2024

It’s messy. Mostly, we need to have others who can be with us in our grief.