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12/18/2025

✨Living with complex trauma often looks invisible from the outside.✨

You can be successful, accomplished, and “high-functioning”…
and still feel unsafe in quiet moments.
Still scan rooms.
Still brace your body without realizing it.

Complex trauma isn’t about one bad memory.
It’s about a nervous system that learned early that staying alert meant staying alive. ❤️

Overfunctioning wasn’t a flaw.
Hyper-awareness wasn’t drama.
Intensity wasn’t preference.

They were adaptations.

Healing doesn’t mean forcing yourself to “let go” or pushing for calm before your body is ready.

It means slowly, compassionately teaching your nervous system that the danger has passed.

That rest doesn’t need to be earned.
That love doesn’t require vigilance.
That safety can be steady—not explosive.

If this resonated, you’re not broken.
Your system learned how to survive.
And it can also learn how to rest. 🤍

The Holistic Counseling Center

✨Does calm ever feel uncomfortable for you too?
✨Did you recognize yourself in these patterns?

12/17/2025

✨Therapists don’t overfunction because we’re broken.
We overfunction because it once kept us safe, connected, and valued.✨

Many of us learned early that:
✨ attunement = belonging
✨ insight = stability
✨ emotional labor = love

And then we trained in systems that rewarded those same traits.

Over time, overfunctioning becomes invisible — until it turns into:
✨burnout
✨resentment
✨self-abandonment
✨confusing intensity with intimacy

Healing doesn’t mean caring less.
It means doing less of what costs us our selves.

Boundaries aren’t about pulling away.
They’re about staying connected to yourself while in relationship.

Each time you pause instead of rescuing…
Each time you let discomfort exist…
Each time you don’t explain, fix, or hold it all…

Your nervous system learns:
“I don’t have to disappear to belong.”

If this landed, you’re not alone — and you’re not failing.
You’re unlearning a pattern that once helped you survive 🤍

⬇️What part of overfunctioning do you notice most in your own life?

✨Save this if you’re practicing doing less.
✨Share with a therapist who carries too much.
✨Comment “seen” if this resonates.

12/16/2025

✨Healing attachment isn’t about choosing better people.
It’s about not leaving yourself in connection.✨

If you’ve been drawn to emotionally unavailable or conflicted partners, nothing is “wrong” with you. Your nervous system learned how to survive closeness early on.

Many of us learned that love meant over-attuning, understanding, and holding space — even when it cost us ourselves.

But secure attachment doesn’t require intensity or tension.
It feels like consistency, calm interest, mutual effort, and emotional safety. ❤️

At first, that can feel unfamiliar.
Even boring.

That’s not a red flag.
That’s healing.

You don’t have to disappear to belong.
You’re meant to be met.

✨ Save this if you’re unlearning self-abandonment.
💬 Comment “HEAL” if this resonates.

12/15/2025

✨Healing changes your tolerance.✨

After years in survival mode, you don’t just want honesty—you need it.

You don’t crave intensity anymore; you crave clarity, safety, and authenticity.

What once felt familiar may now feel misaligned.
What you used to excuse, your body now resists.
And what you can’t unsee anymore… you’re no longer willing to stay in.

This can feel lonely—not because you’re broken, but because you’ve grown.

Healing doesn’t make you rigid.
It makes you clear.

✨If you’ve noticed your standards shifting as you heal, you’re not alone.✨

Your nervous system is telling the truth. ❤️

What has healing changed for you lately?
⬇️ Share if you feel called.

12/14/2025

Life lately 🤍

Quiet evenings by the fire. Little hands frosting cookies. Connecting to colleagues at our new office. Music played live, imperfect and real. Holiday messes, cozy rituals, and moments that don’t look “healed” but are healing. 🫶

This is what a holistic wellness life looks like for me right now—not perfection, but presence. Letting the nervous system soften in small ways. Making room for joy and grief. Caring for the body, tending relationships, creating beauty, telling the truth, and trusting that healing happens in layers.

✨Wellness isn’t something I achieve—it’s something I practice. Daily. Gently. Together. ✨

If you’re here too, you’re not behind. You’re becoming. Be patient.

Love,
Amanda ❤️

12/12/2025

✨Complex trauma isn’t healed by insight alone.
It’s healed through safety, repetition, and relationship.✨

You may notice:
✨Progress that comes in waves, not straight lines
✨Old patterns resurfacing when you’re stressed or vulnerable
✨A deep exhaustion from “doing the work”
✨Grief for the time it’s taking

None of this means you’re failing.
It means your system is learning that it no longer has to live in survival mode.

Healing with complex trauma is less about “fixing”
and more about re-teaching your body that the danger has passed.

Slow healing is still healing.
Gentle healing is still real change.
And you don’t have to do it alone.

The Holistic Counseling Center ❤️

12/11/2025

✨So many people with complex trauma say “I’m fine” before they even realize they’re not.✨

Not because they’re trying to hide…
but because their nervous system learned to protect them by:

✨ Minimizing pain
✨ Staying quiet
✨ Avoiding being a burden
✨ Disconnecting from feelings
✨ Holding everything together alone

“I’m fine” becomes a survival strategy long before it becomes a habit.

And if this is you, please hear this:

Your needs are not too much.
Your feelings are not a burden.
Your pain is real — and it deserves to be witnessed.

Healing begins the moment we stop performing “okay”
and start telling the truth — gently, safely, and with support.

At The Holistic Counseling Center, we help clients unlearn survival patterns, reconnect with their bodies, and build the internal safety needed to feel again — without becoming overwhelmed.

You don’t have to hold everything together alone anymore.
You deserve support that sees the whole you. 🤍

If you’re ready for healing that honors your story, your body, and your humanity — we’re here.

👇 Share in the comments (if it feels safe):
Is “I’m fine” your automatic response too?

12/10/2025

✨Healing from complex trauma isn’t linear.
✨It’s not quick.
✨And it’s definitely not perfect.

When your nervous system has spent years trying to survive…
learning to feel safe again takes time. 🫶🏼

Every freeze. Every setback. Every tiny step forward — it all counts. It all matters.
YOU matter.

Save this for the days you forget how far you’ve come. 💚
Share it with someone who needs this reminder.
And tell me in the comments — what has surprised you most about your healing journey? ⬇️

12/09/2025

✨Therapists carry so much.✨

Not just our clients’ stories…but our own lives, our children, our relationships, our fears, our healing.

And sometimes, we’re the only ones who know how heavy it all really is. ❤️

This is your reminder:
You don’t have to hold the world together alone.

✨You deserve support.
✨You deserve rest.
✨Your healing matters too.

👇 Tell me in the comments:
What’s ONE thing you wish people understood about being a therapist?

Need support? Reach out. 🌱
We’re here to help you keep helping others — without losing yourself along the way.

12/08/2025

✨The most important work we’ll ever do as therapists? The work we do within.✨

Because our own healing becomes the soil our clients grow from.

✨Our shadow work becomes the safety in the room.
✨Our self-awareness becomes the boundary that protects our clients’ process.
✨Our regulation becomes the co-regulator that steadies the storm.

We can only guide clients as far as we’ve dared to go ourselves.

If you’re a therapist committed to your own healing — your clients feel it. ❤️

And our profession needs more of us doing that brave, beautiful work.

✨ Tag a therapist who inspires you to keep growing.
✨ Save this post for the days you need a reminder of your impact.
✨ Double-tap if you believe healed therapists heal differently.

We heal together. 🌱
— The Holistic Counseling Center

12/07/2025

🌿 Introducing: The Holistic CEO Program 🌿 Because we believe that The Future of Leadership is Presence.

When I started The Holistic CEO Program, it wasn’t just to help leaders run bigger practices — it was to help them build better and sustainable ones.

Ones that elevate the wellbeing of clients, clinicians, and the wider community. Ones rooted in purpose, nervous system regulation, business mastery, and authentic leadership…not burnout, hustle, and disconnection.

As trauma-informed clinicians, healers, and leaders, our mission is too important to get lost in survival mode. We are called to expand — not at the expense of ourselves — but for the people we’re here to serve. 🫶

This program was designed for the founders, visionaries, and practice owners who are ready to:

✨ Grow a multi-location practice with intention and profitability
✨ Lead teams with connection, authenticity, confidence, and clarity
✨ Scale systems that support sustainability and clinical excellence
✨ Step into a CEO identity that feels embodied and aligned — not performative
✨ Bring more presence and groundedness into every room they walk into

We are transforming the mental health and wellness field — one regulated, well-supported Holistic CEO at a time. 🙌🏻

📍 Location:
2220 Wealthy St SE
East Grand Rapids, MI 49506

📩 Ready to learn more? Contact us:
info@theholisticcounselingcentergr.com
📞 (616) 277-7533

✨If you’re ready to lead from the inside out — this is where your next evolution begins.✨

12/06/2025

✨Therapist burnout doesn’t always look like collapse…Sometimes it looks like functioning, but feeling empty inside.✨

We hold so much.
We care so deeply.
We carry invisible weight every single day.

If you saw yourself in these slides… you’re not alone. ❤️
Burnout is not a personal failure — it’s a human response to overwhelm.

You deserve:
✨spaciousness
✨joy
✨regulation
✨someone holding space for you, too

If you’re craving support, boundaries, and nervous system healing as a clinician — we’re here for you. 🥰

Save this for when you doubt your worth, and share it with another therapist who might need this reminder today.

You matter, too.

The Holistic Counseling Center 🌱

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Monday	8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm

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