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Maggie Gets Real - Cathartic Counseling & Anxiety Coaching

Because you were never broken—you just needed a space built for you.

I help childfree women untangle themselves from people-pleasing and perfectionism so they can finally take up space, breathe deeply, and build lives they don’t need to escape from.

12/10/2025

I mean…it’s cloooossee 🤪🫠😅

11/27/2025

Let’s get this straight 👇🏼
Selfish is only an insult to people who benefited from your self-abandonment.

Growing up, so many of us were praised for being:
✨ helpful
✨ low-maintenance
✨ the “easy” one
✨ the one who kept the peace

We learned that being selfless made everyone else more comfortable.
So we kept doing it.
We kept earning the right to exist.

But here’s what no one told us:

Being selfless isn’t noble if it requires you to disappear.

Selfish isn’t skipping out on your responsibilities.
It’s not bailing last-minute because you don’t feel like it.
It’s not living in a way that harms other people.

Selfish is:
💛 choosing commitments that you actually want
💛 listening to your needs before the meltdown
💛 honoring the life you worked hard to build
💛 saying no because your yes matters

It’s protecting the little girl inside you who spent YEARS putting everyone else first.

When you finally let her rest and receive…
You don’t become cold.
You don’t become uncaring.
You become a whole human instead of a performing one.

✨ Selfish is what your healing looks like.
✨ Selfish is what your freedom feels like.
✨ Selfish is part of being Unapologetically Childfree™.

Follow for the tools to stop shrinking, heal your inner child, and live Unapologetically Childfree™—inside and out. 💛

11/25/2025

Why these affirmations work 👇🏼

Because you’re not walking into the holidays as a blank slate.
You’re walking in with decades of being misunderstood, underestimated, or treated like the “easy” one…
and your nervous system remembers all of it.

Your brain doesn’t wait for the comment, the tone, the question.
It prepares for it in advance.
That’s why you rehearse conversations in your head.
Why you plan your answers.
Why you feel defensive before a single word is spoken.

You grew up learning that approval = safety.
So now, even though you’ve built a whole adult life on your terms,
your body still tries to protect you the old way:
by shrinking, pleasing, and anticipating disappointment.

That’s why these affirmations aren’t cheesy.
They’re interruptions
little pattern-breakers that tell your younger self:
“Hey… we’re not doing that anymore.”

When you say:
• “I don’t need to prove anything,”
or
• “My life doesn’t need defending,”
you’re not just reassuring your mind.
You’re reassuring the little girl who thought she had to earn her place at the table.

And that moment of internal safety?
That’s what changes how you show up with your family.

💛 Comment A, B, or C — which one are you taking with you?

Follow for the tools to stop shrinking, heal your inner child, and live Unapologetically Childfree™ — inside and out.

11/25/2025

Why these affirmations work 👇🏼

Because you’re not walking into the holidays as a blank slate.
You’re walking in with decades of being misunderstood, underestimated, or treated like the “easy” one…
and your nervous system remembers all of it.

Your brain doesn’t wait for the comment, the tone, the question.
It prepares for it in advance.
That’s why you rehearse conversations in your head.
Why you plan your answers.
Why you feel defensive before a single word is spoken.

You grew up learning that approval = safety.
So now, even though you’ve built a whole adult life on your terms,
your body still tries to protect you the old way:
by shrinking, pleasing, and anticipating disappointment.

That’s why these affirmations aren’t cheesy.
They’re interruptions —
little pattern-breakers that tell your younger self:
“Hey… we’re not doing that anymore.”

When you say:
• “I don’t need to prove anything,”
or
• “My life doesn’t need defending,”
you’re not just reassuring your mind.
You’re reassuring the little girl who thought she had to earn her place at the table.

And that moment of internal safety?
That’s what changes how you show up with your family.

💛 Comment A, B, or C — which one are you taking with you?

Follow for the tools to stop shrinking, heal your inner child, and live Unapologetically Childfree™ — inside and out.

Address

Houston, TX

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 12:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 12:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 12:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 12:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 12:30pm

Telephone

+18324226731

Website

https://www.unapologeticallychildfree.com/links, https://www.catharticcounseling.com/

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