LiveWell with Nichole Webb, MA, LPC

01/01/2026

01/01/2026

Something to consider

12/31/2025

This year and every year. 💜

A Willingness to Keep Showing Up

I step into this new year
gently, without resolutions,
with just a simple willingness,
to keep going,
to keep moving forward.

Not the bright, declarative kind of decision
that arrives with banners and promises,
but the quieter kind,
the one that asks for nothing grand.

No transformation.
Just an honest effort
to place one foot in front of the other,
without needing it to be a victory march.

To keep going isn’t strength.
It’s letting the days arrive as they are,
some heavy,
some hollow,
some unexpectedly kind.

It’s allowing grief, fatigue, memory, and love
to share the same room,
without insisting that any of them leave.

There is no list.
No reinvention.
No deadline for becoming someone new.
There is only the steady choice
to remain present,
to trust that willingness itself
is an act of grace.

So this year begins
not with resolve, but with intention:
the intention to stay present,
the intention to try again tomorrow,
the intention to simply keep showing up.

~ 'A Willingness to Keep Showing Up' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olya Haydamaka

12/31/2025

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12/31/2025

Over the years I have found this type of trauma to be complicated, deeply infiltrating and difficult to recognize. There is hope with EMDR.

Religious Trauma Isn’t “All in Your Head.” It’s in Your Nervous System.

Religious trauma is what happens when faith, authority, or “God’s voice” becomes fused with fear, control, shame, or threat. Over time, your body learns that spiritual spaces are not safe.

That’s where the vagus nerve comes in.

The vagus nerve is the main communication highway between your brain and your body. It regulates safety, threat, connection, and survival. When religious environments repeatedly activate fear, punishment, silence, or spiritual abuse, the vagus nerve adapts. Your body stays on high alert or shuts down, even years after you’ve left.

That’s why:
Worship music can trigger panic
Scripture can cause dissociation
Church buildings can make your chest tighten
Authority figures can activate fight, flight, freeze, or fawn

This isn’t rebellion.
It isn’t bitterness.
It isn’t “losing your faith.”

It’s a trauma-conditioned nervous system responding exactly the way it was trained to survive.

Religious trauma is not just a theological issue.
It’s a neurological and embodied injury.

Healing doesn’t start with “trying harder to trust God.”
It starts with safety, consent, regulation, and restoring agency to the body.

Your nervous system isn’t broken.
It learned what it had to learn.
And it can heal.

12/19/2025

🎯💯

12/19/2025

Its isn't mine either. You aren't alone.

It’s okay if this season doesn’t feel happy or magical. 🫂

If all you can do right now is get through the day, that’s still enough. You don’t have to feel joyful all the time.

Showing up and surviving is already something to be proud of.

12/19/2025

Agreed.

12/19/2025

🙌🏼 where are my deep feeling people at??

The world needs more feelers.

The ones whose hearts swell to the size of the universe.

The ones who bravely reveal their genuine selves with wreckless abandon.

The ones whose tears carry with them the light energy of the moon.

The ones whose mere presence ignites truth within others.

The ones who have healed regardless of the pain they’ve experienced, so that their magic ripples into the collective consciousness.

The ones who were told they were too much when really they were always enough.

The feelers are the healers of our time.

The world needs more feelers.

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