Meredith Puckett Therapy, LLC

01/04/2026

Lovely thoughts for energy to bring healing in this new year. 🌅

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12/06/2025

❤️‍🩹Healing is possible and you are worthy of it!

11/17/2025

I hope if you are reading this and your brain is neurodiverse, you can give yourself some extra grace and speak to yourself as you would a best friend. Self-compassion and kindness go a long way when you're taxed out! ❤️

11/17/2025

Fawning is a hybrid response, activating the sympathetic (hyperarousal) and parasympathetic (hypoarousal) branches of the autonomic nervous system at the same time.

• The hyperarousal aspect of fawning has us instinctively managing the moods and states of those “in charge.” We lean into the very relationships that are causing us harm, appeasing our perpetrators while taking personal responsibility for all relational difficulties. Fawning can be incredibly active.

• But at the same time, we are detaching from ourselves. The hypoarousal of fawning numbs our connection to self, our broader sense of agency, and often, our ability to feel the effects of the abuse at all.

We are threading a fine needle when we fawn, neither risking greater harm through fight or flight, nor shutting down completely. This highly adaptive response is moving beyond playing dead to playing LIFE. We are playing pretend, and we don’t even know it. We are playing house, playing the game (to survive or escape our situation), playing a part—sometimes as many parts as there are people in our lives.

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10/08/2025

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a wish for wings that work (collab with Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, thanks to Shawn Jackson and for the assist)

10/07/2025

10/06/2025

Seeds and blooms grow in the darkness. A lotus cannot grow without mud. You are a force of nature. You can rise again.



[image cred: Poetry & all my emotions]

09/26/2025

[image cred: The Soul Leaf ]

09/24/2025

06/11/2025

One day at a time

06/11/2025

"It's all in your head." For those dealing with mental health issues, this statement can be so offensive, belittling, and guilt-provoking.

Take a look at these images. Mental illness is in one's head (brain) just as asthma is in the lungs. It's time to end the stigma.