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Spence Counseling Alliance, PLLC

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Spence Counseling Alliance, PLLC

Helping guide people through pain towards truth, healing and abundance. Offering Telehealth, in person and outdoor movement therapy on the Eastside.

10/11/2025

You raised someone who was ready to fly.
That’s not empty.
That’s legacy.

Now?
It’s your turn.

To build a life that’s not tethered to everyone else’s needs.
To remember what you want.
To stop mourning what’s gone—and start getting honest about what’s next.

Midlife isn’t the end.
It’s your reintroduction.

💙 Inside The Expansion Project, we do this work together — unlearning the good girl conditioning, setting boundaries that hold, and expanding into who you’re meant to be.

👉 Join the waitlist — link in bio & comments.
✨ Or grab your free guide: 5 Boundary Breakdowns Every Midlife Mom Needs to Stop.

10/10/2025

If your marriage were a job — one that required emotional safety, joy, and mutual growth —
would your partner still get the job?

Midlife is the great truth-teller.
It doesn’t always mean divorce.
But it does mean honesty — about what’s working, what’s not, and what you actually need now.

Because here’s the thing:
You’ve evolved.
And sometimes the version of partnership that fit in your 30s doesn’t fit in your 50s — not because you’ve failed, but because you’ve grown. 🌱

You don’t have to burn it all down.
But you do have to stop betraying yourself to keep the peace.

Inside The Expansion Project, we do this work together — unlearning the good girl conditioning, setting boundaries that hold, and expanding into who you’re meant to be.

👉 Join the waitlist — link in bio & comments.
✨ Or grab your free guide: 5 Boundary Breakdowns Every Midlife Mom Needs to Stop.

10/09/2025

There’s a whole lot we were taught to carry:
✔️ Prove your worth.
✔️ Keep everyone comfortable.
✔️ Hustle to stay relevant.
✔️ Apologize for every boundary.

But not everything gets to come with you into this next chapter.

This is your permission slip to unpack.
To drop the weight.
To stop explaining.
To expand instead of shrink.

✨ Inside The Expansion Project, we name what we’re done carrying — and we build what comes next.
📘 Join the waitlist in bio. The baggage gets lighter when we unpack it together.
💛 Drop a ✋ if you’re leaving some things behind too.

10/08/2025

We grew up equating love with self-sacrifice.
Do it their way. Keep the peace. Say yes, even when your whole body screams no.

Here’s the truth → that’s not love. That’s self-abandonment.

Boundaries aren’t walls.
They’re clarity.
They’re respect.
They’re the framework that keeps love healthy instead of heavy.

And in midlife, your energy is too valuable to keep giving it away.

💛 Boundaries are not rejection — they’re the highest form of love. For you, and for them.

That’s the work we do inside The Expansion Project: unlearning the good-girl script, reclaiming your energy, and building a life that’s unapologetically yours.

👉 Waitlist is open now — link in bio.

10/07/2025

You don’t need to earn rest like it’s dessert after cleaning your emotional plate.

You’re allowed to pause.
Without guilt. Without folding laundry while you “relax.”
Without narrating it to make it sound productive.

Because here’s the truth:
Overfunctioning is not a flex.
And burnout is not your personality.

Rest isn’t weakness.
It’s resistance.
It’s soul triage.

✨ Inside The Expansion Project, we untangle your worth from your to-do list.
📘 Join the waitlist in bio—because burnout is not a personality trait.

10/05/2025

Somewhere along the line we got sold the lie that rest is a reward you have to earn.
Finish the to-do list. Keep the house running. Hold everyone else together. Then maybe you can lie down.

Here’s the truth → rest isn’t a trophy. It’s fuel.
✨ Rest makes you sharper.
✨ Rest makes you braver.
✨ Rest makes you more you.

And let’s be real — how many of us have hidden the fact that we were relaxing when our partner walked in? Like God forbid we’re horizontal with Netflix. 🙄

It’s time to call BS.
You don’t need permission to rest. You don’t need gold stars.
You just need to let yourself off the hook.

💛 Inside The Expansion Project, we unlearn the “good girl” conditioning that says rest is lazy. Because this next chapter isn’t about burning out. It’s about expanding into a life that actually feels good.

👉 Waitlist is open now — link in bio. Come get your rest and your freedom back.

10/04/2025

I didn’t wake up one day with great boundaries.
I earned them.

Through burnout.
Through “sure, I can do that” when I absolutely could not.
Through learning the hard way that people-pleasing isn’t peacekeeping.

Now? I move slower.
I answer less.
I stay where it feels right—and leave when it doesn’t.

These aren’t cute little affirmations.
They’re midlife rules.
Hard-won. Non-negotiable. And finally, kept.

Tell me your quiet win. The one no one noticed but changed everything. I’ll celebrate it with you.
✨ Inside The Expansion Project, we write new rules—and we stick to them. Together. Join the waitlist in bio.

10/03/2025

Confession: when my grown kids visit, I still slip straight into bed & breakfast mode — pillow fluffer, favorite-meal chef, emotional concierge. 🛎️💛

And honestly? I love it. It’s my way of saying, you’re safe here, you’re cared for, you can exhale.

But when they leave?
👉 I switch into me mode.
👉 Fierce self-care.
👉 Freedom to expand.

That’s the real dance of the empty nest → loving them like crazy when they’re here and loving yourself just as fiercely when they’re gone.

✨ Inside The Expansion Project, we learn how to do exactly that — toggle gracefully between nurturing them and finally, unapologetically, nurturing YOU.

👉 Join the waitlist through the link in bio.

09/30/2025

Midlife Girl Math:
Canceling plans = emotional ROI
Blocking energy vampires = preventative medicine
Saying no = energy saved (and sanity protected)
Resting = compounding interest in self-worth

We’re budgeting differently now—
Not with dollars, but with peace, bandwidth, and zero tolerance for BS.

✨ Emotional ROI is the new currency.
✨ Peace is the luxury.
✨ And “no” is a power move with receipts.

💬 What’s your new favorite Midlife Girl Math equation? Drop it below ⬇️

09/27/2025

You taught them how to try, to trust, to take up space.
You were their launchpad and soft place to land - even when your heart was breaking.
Now the question is:
Can you give yourself that same fierce devotion?
Because this part?
This is your becoming.
Not as a mom.
But as you.
You didn’t lose your purpose when they left.
You’re just now free to fully live it.
You don’t have to figure it all out alone.
The Expansion Project is here when you’re ready. WomenSupportingWomen

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640 NW Gilmand Boulevard, #101
Issaquah, WA
98027

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	1pm - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 12pm

Website

https://www.spencecounselingalliance.com/

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