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Empowering Peace Counseling PLLC, 2524 N Broadway, Edmond, OK (2026)

02/08/2026

Therapists: this is for the ones quietly holding it all together.

The sessions.
The paperwork.
The emotional weight you carry home.
The pressure to be “ethical, grounded, and grateful”… while wondering why this still feels so hard.

Private practice wasn’t meant to be this isolating.
And struggling doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.

I created The Helpful Hippie Collective because I kept hearing the same things over and over:
“I love my clients, but I’m exhausted.”
“I don’t know how to grow without burning out.”
“I feel behind, even though I’m doing everything I can.”

This space is for therapists who want support that actually feels regulating not overwhelming.
A place to talk honestly about money, boundaries, capacity, and sustainability.
A place to learn how to build a practice that works with your nervous system, not against it.

No hustle culture.
No pressure to be someone you’re not.
Just real tools, real conversations, and real community.

If you’re craving steadiness, clarity, and connection in your work,
you don’t have to figure it out alone anymore.

The Helpful Hippie Collective is open.
You’re welcome here.

02/02/2026

Today is day one of the Helpful Hippie Collective ✨

This is our Founders Circle, and I’m genuinely so excited to begin. When the world feels heavy, therapists are often the ones who keep holding everyone else and put themselves last. This space is a gentle (and honest) refusal of that pattern.

This collective isn’t just for folks already in private practice. It’s for all therapists, especially those who feel a pull toward expanding, evolving, or one day growing something more sustainable and aligned. Community, support, and real conversations about this work and the business of it all live here.

If this resonates, come join us. It’s not too late, and you’re very welcome here 🌿

https://www.helpfulhippiecollective.com/

01/31/2026

As a trauma therapist that has been in fhe field over a decade here is my truth regarding the way that we can shift our thinking to come together for all of us:

Empathy is not finite.

Care is not a limited resource.

Someone else being seen does not erase you.

When conversations about race, privilege, or systemic harm turn into “what about me?”, something deeper is usually happening. Not hatred. Not evil. Threat.

There’s a psychological pattern called zero-sum thinking the belief that if one group gains understanding, safety, or visibility, another group must be losing it. That equality is subtraction. That compassion has a quota.

But empathy doesn’t work like money in a bank account.

No one is withdrawing from your worth by naming someone else’s pain.

For many people, especially those who have benefited from systems without choosing them, naming privilege can feel like blame or shame.

The nervous system hears: You’re bad. You’re at fault. You’re being pushed out.

This is known as identity threat or status threat when acknowledging historical or systemic harm feels like a personal attack, even when it isn’t one.

Acknowledging systemic failures is not about assigning individual guilt.

It’s about holding space for reality.

We can say:
• This system harmed people
• That harm still echoes today
• And you are not being accused simply for existing within it
All at the same time.

When someone says “If Black lives matter, why don’t white lives?” or fears the “browning of America,” “that’s often ingroup–outgroup bias and relative deprivation showing up the fear that recognition of others means loss of self.

When people fear immigrants, it’s often framed as ‘losing our country,’ but no one’s belonging is reduced by welcoming others shared dignity isn’t diluted by new languages, cultures, or faces.

When q***r and trans people are visible or protected, it isn’t an attack on anyone else’s identity it’s simply an expansion of who is allowed to live openly and safely.

Inclusion is not displacement.

Naming inequity is not erasure.

Understanding history is not self-hatred.

We don’t heal by denying pain ours or anyone else’s.

We heal by expanding our capacity to witness it without defensiveness.

This isn’t about blame.

It’s about bandwidth.

It’s about realizing the room gets bigger when we stop guarding the doorway.

Empathy doesn’t shrink when it’s shared.

It grows.

Right now we need to grow.

01/29/2026

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01/14/2026

White supremacy isn’t just a political belief, it’s an emotional story about threat. At its core, it says that white people especially white men in power are somehow being “replaced,” attacked, or robbed of what they deserve. That story flips reality on its head and casts the most socially protected group as the victims. Psychologically, that’s an immature defense: instead of tolerating discomfort, sharing power, or facing change, it externalizes blame and clings to grievance.

The pattern mirrors dynamics we see in domestic violence. In abusive systems, the person with more power often claims they are the one being disrespected or endangered, and then uses that belief to justify control. “Look what you made me do,” but dressed up as ideology. Both rely on fear, entitlement, and a refusal to self-reflect.

Growth requires tolerating complexity and letting go of dominance.

Supremacy, in any form, is the opposite of strength.

If someone finds themselves buying into the idea that “white power” is necessary or justified, three starting points for self-examination:

First, notice where the fear is coming from. What feels threatened, and by whom, and is that threat actually personal or just inherited from media and social circles?

Second, get curious about who benefits from that story. When anger is aimed sideways at other struggling people instead of upward at systems, someone is quietly cashing in.

Third, practice sitting with discomfort without turning it into blame. Change can feel like loss, but growth often does. Tolerating that feeling without needing a villain is a grown-up nervous system skill.

Power built on domination is brittle. Power built on shared humanity is harder to control, but far harder to break.

01/14/2026

💙 New Year, New Awareness 💙

As we step into January, it’s a powerful time to check in on how you’re really feeling during pregnancy and after birth.
Not every postpartum mood change is the same, and knowing the difference can help you get the right support:

🔹 Perinatal Depression (PPD): Persistent sadness, low energy, hopelessness, loss of interest; may last months without treatment
🔹 Perinatal Anxiety (PPA): Excessive worry, racing thoughts, panic; can interfere with daily life
🔹 Perinatal OCD (POCD): Symptoms include obsessions, compulsions, horror about obsessions, fear of being alone with baby, and hypervigilance

✨ Early recognition leads to earlier support and recovery.

And remember, perinatal mental health conditions can also include Bipolar Mood Disorders, PTSD, and Psychosis.

💙 You are not alone, and help is available.

If you need support now:
🔷 Call or text the Postpartum Support International HelpLine at 800-944-4773 (no diagnosis needed)
🔷 Call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-852-6262
🔷 In a crisis, call or text 988
🔷 Download the Connect by PSI app
🔷 Visit Postpartum.net for programs and resources

✨ A new year can be the beginning of feeling better.

01/14/2026

🌙 A Nightly Check-In (No Journaling Required)

If journaling feels like too much at the end of the day, try a tiny ritual instead.

Light a candle, hold a crystal, or pull a single tarot card.

Nothing fancy, just a moment to come back to yourself.

Ask one gentle question: What did I need today? or What am I carrying into tomorrow?

No fixing. No analyzing. Just noticing.

Set a simple intention, even if it’s as small as “rest” or “be a little kinder to myself.”

Let that be enough.

Your nervous system learns safety through repetition, not perfection.

Connection doesn’t have to be deep and dramatic.

Sometimes it’s quiet, soft, and exactly what your body’s been waiting for. ✨

01/09/2026

For my therapist friends...

The world feels loud, heavy, and disconnected right now.
This collective exists because you’re not meant to carry that alone.

This is a space for people who are tired of shrinking, explaining themselves, or pretending they’re fine. A space for grounding, truth-telling, nervous system safety, and real connection with others who get it.

If you’re craving community that’s inclusive, emotionally intelligent, a little woo, and deeply human this was created for you.

Come as you are. Stay as you grow.

✨ Apply today and join the collective. ✨

https://www.helpfulhippiecollective.com/

01/08/2026

Complex trauma can’t be healed by insight alone, no matter how sharp or self-aware you are.

For a lot of people, analyzing becomes the survival strategy.

If I can understand it, map it, explain it, I can control it. The problem is that complex trauma didn’t form in the thinking brain. It formed in a nervous system that learned the world wasn’t safe.

So when we try to “think our way out,” we’re building on a faulty foundation. Analysis sits on top of safety. And if safety was never there, insight just spins in circles. You can know why you react the way you do and still feel hijacked by it in your body.

Healing complex trauma is less about figuring it out and more about teaching your system something new: that safety can exist now. That your body can settle. That connection doesn’t equal danger. That you don’t have to stay on guard to survive.

Once safety is built, understanding actually sticks. Insight becomes supportive instead of exhausting.

You don’t need to think harder.

You need a foundation that finally says, you’re safe enough to rest.

01/07/2026

When we let fear run the show, fear of our kids failing, being uncomfortable, making the “wrong” choice, or growing up too fast, we often do the very thing we’re trying to prevent.

We hover. We rescue. We decide for them. We keep them small so they’ll stay safe.

But security isn’t built through protection alone. It’s built through trust.

When kids aren’t invited to trust themselves, to choose, to try, to wobble, they learn a subtle lesson: someone else knows better than me.

That doesn’t create safety. It creates self-doubt. And over time, that doubt shows up as anxiety, indecision, or dependence, the exact outcomes most parents are trying desperately to avoid.

Secure attachment doesn’t mean never being scared for your child. It means letting your fear inform you, not control you.

Three small, powerful ways to build secure attachment through everyday parenting choices:

First: let them decide in low-stakes moments.
What to wear. How to solve a minor problem. Which activity to try. When kids practice choosing while you stay emotionally present, their nervous system learns: I can decide and still be loved.

Second: tolerate their discomfort without fixing it.
Discomfort isn’t danger. Frustration, sadness, and nervousness are part of growth. When you stay calm while they struggle, you teach them their feelings are survivable, and so are mistakes.

Third: reflect confidence back to them out loud.
Say things like, “I trust you to figure this out,” or “I believe you know what feels right for you.” Kids internalize the voice they hear most. Make it one that believes in them.

The goal of parenting was never to eliminate risk.

💜It was to raise humans who feel safe inside themselves.💜

And that kind of safety grows best when love says,
“I’m here. And I trust you.”

01/03/2026

Things I used to think were weird about me (pre-unmasking):

• My Southern sayings “sweetie” and “honey” to every food worker, no exceptions
• My constant playful, slightly chaotic energy
• My book obsession (it’s regulation, not avoidance)
• Eating the same food + replaying the same song on repeat
• My loud, enthusiastic hype-girl vibe

Turns out:

None of it was weird.

It was me trying to feel safe, connected, and myself.

Unmasking didn’t change me. It gave me permission.

Here’s your reminder that you can give yourself that same permission.

01/02/2026

Something I love about nature-based, energy-centered spiritual paths like animism, earth-honoring traditions, goddess spirituality, or even spiritual-but-not-religious ways of relating to source—is this:

They don’t ask you to believe harder.

They ask you to notice more.

These paths tend to center lived experience over doctrine.

What happens in your body.

What you feel in nature.

What steadies you in grief, change, or becoming.

There’s no entry exam.

No requirement to abandon the faith you were raised in.

No pressure to rename God if that language still feels sacred to you.

Animism invites relationship with the world rather than dominance over it.

Goddess and divine-feminine traditions honor intuition, cycles, and creation without demanding certainty.

Nature-based spirituality often treats energy as something sensed and embodied, not something you have to explain or defend.

You’re allowed to take what resonates and leave the rest.

You’re allowed to hold Christianity, Judaism, science, skepticism, or mystery alongside these ideas without forcing them to cancel each other out.

Deconstruction doesn’t have to be violent or final.
It can be slow.
It can be kind.
It can be rooted in curiosity rather than rebellion.

These spiritual paths tend to say:
Your experience matters.
Your body is a source of information.
You don’t need permission to belong to yourself.
You’re not required to trade one rigid system for another.
You’re allowed to evolve in ways that feel honest, grounded, and alive.

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