Healing Routes Counseling LLC

11/06/2025

🧠 Mental Health Myth: “If I stay busy enough, I won’t have to feel it.”

Truth:
Busyness can feel like control. Like safety. Like survival.

But staying constantly in motion doesn’t make the feelings disappear — it just delays them. And over time, that emotional weight doesn’t go away… it just gets heavier to carry.

Therapy offers a space to slow down — to gently turn toward what you’ve been running from, with compassion and support.
Not all at once. Not too fast. Just enough to start breathing again.

At Healing routes, we strive to create a safe space to do just that. And we're here to share that space with you when you're ready.

At Healing Routes Counseling, LLC, we believe that healing is a journey, unique to each individual, and we are here to walk alongside you as you navigate your path towards greater well-being, resilience, and fulfillment through our counseling services.

11/05/2025

We're back at it again with the myth busting!

11/04/2025

Continuing with tackling myths this week....Let’s clear this one up ⬇️

While it might look like advice from the outside, therapy is not about someone telling you what to do. Good therapy is about helping you understand yourself better—your patterns, your emotions, your needs—so you can decide what’s best for you.

Your therapist isn’t there to hand you solutions. They’re there to walk with you while you uncover them for yourself.

Curious about what else might be a myth?
👇 Drop your questions or myths you’ve heard in the comments and let’s talk about it this week.

11/03/2025

🌿 This week, we’re talking about mental health myths.
Because too many of us are walking around with outdated, untrue, or unhelpful beliefs about what mental health should look like.

You’re not broken for needing help.
You don’t have to be in crisis to deserve support.
You’re not weak for struggling.

✨ Let’s talk about it.

What have you always wondered is a myth or not?
Drop your questions or thoughts below 👇
Let’s bust some myths together.

11/01/2025

Do you need help with your mental health? If you don't know where to start, this infographic may help guide you. https://go.nih.gov/1VtK7eA

Information about assessing your mental health and deciding if you need help. It provides examples of symptoms, self-care activities, and how to seek help.

10/31/2025

Life can be stressful. If you are struggling to cope, or the symptoms of your stress or anxiety won’t go away, it could affect your health.

Learn more at https://go.nih.gov/HcjwFWe .

This fact sheet is intended for teens and young adults and presents information about stress, anxiety, and ways to cope when feeling overwhelmed.

10/30/2025

Everyone feels stressed from time to time. It's important to pay attention to how you deal with minor and major stressors, so you know when to seek help. Manage your stress with these tips: https://go.nih.gov/HcjwFWe .

This fact sheet is intended for teens and young adults and presents information about stress, anxiety, and ways to cope when feeling overwhelmed.

10/29/2025

Everyone feels sad or low, but these feelings usually pass. Depression is different and has severe symptoms that affect how people feel, think, and act. Learn the signs and symptoms of depression, how it is diagnosed, treatments, and ways to get help.

https://go.nih.gov/0uqAIBh

Information about depression including the different types of depression, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, and how to find help.

10/27/2025

✨ Gentle progress is still progress ✨

If Monday feels like a lot today, take a deep breath (or two...or three...)

You don’t have to carry the whole week at once.
Just take the next doable step. That’s can be enough for today, especially since it's Monday.

10/24/2025

Friendly Friday Footnote for heading into the weekend 💚

10/24/2025

There are no “bad” feelings.
Not every emotion is comfortable, but every emotion carries information. Even discomfort is a signal.

Sometimes life’s stressors leave us overwhelmed, and we miss the message our emotions are giving us. When we don’t understand what we feel, it can feel like trying to navigate in the dark. Bumping into pain we can’t see, unsure of which way to go.

But you do have a light. Everyone does. It just gets hard to find in the dark.

We’re here to help add some light to the dark and hold the light with you. One day, finding that you can carry the light by yourself.

10/22/2025

You don’t have to explain you're tired.

You don’t need a five-point essay to justify your exhaustion, you’re allowed to feel tired.
From doing too much, from holding it all together, from existing in a world that seems to never stop asking for more.

Some of us carry invisible labor that doesn’t clock out:
• Managing emotions (ours and others)
• Anticipating needs before they’re spoken
• “Keeping it together” when chaos swirls
• Pretending we’re fine — even when we see all the ways things aren't fine.

If you’re feeling worn down, exhausted to your core, to your bones, please know that it makes sense and you're not alone.

At Healing Routes Counseling, we honor the complexity behind your tired.
You don’t have to earn rest.
You don’t have to explain your overwhelm.
You get to just be.

And we’re here to hold space for that.

When you're ready, we're here to listen.

Phone: 501-710-6689
Email: info@healingroutescounseling.com