Spark Therapy

09/12/2025

🌍💛 Helping Kids Cope with Scary News 💛🌍

Just like adults, kids can feel overwhelmed by upsetting events in the news — and often they hear more than parents realize. Thankfully, there are wonderful resources to help children (and parents) process their feelings in healthy ways.

📚 For Kids (Ages 6–12):
• What to Do When the News Scares You → Link
• Something Bad Happened: A Kid’s Guide to Coping With Events in the News → Link

👩‍👧 For Parents & Educators:
• When the World Feels Like a Scary Place → Link

👶 For Younger Kids (Ages 4–7):
• Most People → Bookshop Link | Amazon Link

📝 More Helpful Reads:
• “25 Books to Help Kids Overcome Anxiety, Worry, and Fear” → Link
• “The Fragility of Freedom: Mighty Girl Books About Life Under Authoritarianism” (for tweens & teens) → Link

✨ At Spark Therapy, we know that helping kids navigate big feelings starts with giving them the right tools, language, and reassurance that they are safe and supported.

🔗 Stay connected with A Mighty Girl resources by signing up here: Newsletter Link

08/18/2025

The things we avoid don’t disappear — they wait for us. 🌿
Healing means facing what hurts so it no longer has the power to control you.
It’s not easy, but every time you choose courage over avoidance, you take your power back. 💛

08/18/2025

💭 Ever wondered what therapy actually is? Let’s clear it up ⬇️

✅ Therapy IS:
• A place to untangle your thoughts
• Learning tools to manage stress, anxiety, and all the “life stuff”
• Working with someone who’s trained to help (not just your friend who watches TikToks about mental health 😉)

❌ Therapy ISN’T:
• A magical 1-session “fix my whole life” button
• Just ranting while we nod and say “mmhmm”
• Your therapist telling you what to do like a GPS (“In 300 feet, break up with him…”)

✨ At Spark Therapy, we keep it real, compassionate, and yes—sometimes we even laugh in the process. Healing doesn’t have to be boring.

07/16/2025

Ever wonder why some days you can handle stress like a champ—and other days even the smallest thing sets you off or shuts you down? That has everything to do with your window of tolerance.

Your window of tolerance is the emotional zone where your brain and body feel safe enough to think clearly, connect with others, and respond (not react).
But when stress, trauma, or overwhelm push us outside that window, we either go:

🔥 Above the window (anxious, angry, panicked)
❄️ Below the window (numb, shut down, disconnected)

🧠 The good news? You can learn to recognize your window—and build tools to stay in it more often.

In therapy, we work on exactly that:
✔️ Recognizing your signs of overwhelm
✔️ Learning grounding + regulation tools
✔️ Expanding your window so you can respond with more calm and clarity—even when life is hard

Your body isn’t broken. It’s communicating. Let’s help you listen with compassion.

🚦 Ready to explore your window of tolerance? I’m here when you are.

05/30/2025

🗣️✨ Your voice matters—even if it shakes.

So often we grow up listening to the big voices: the loud ones, the ones with authority, the ones that made us doubt our gut.
“You’re too sensitive.”
“You’re overreacting.”
“You’re just being dramatic.”

But healing begins when we learn to turn the volume down on those external voices and turn up the one that’s always been within us—the one that knows what we need, what we feel, and who we truly are.

At Spark Therapy, we’re here to help you reconnect with that voice. To trust it. To speak from it.
Because your truth is not too much—and you don’t need permission to own it.

🌱 One spark. One voice. One step at a time.

05/26/2025

05/23/2025

Setting boundaries isn’t about being boring or lame—it’s about protecting your peace (and your phone battery).
Try these:
1. “Protecting my peace > proving a point.”
2. “Not vibing? Not going.”
3. “If it costs my mental health, it’s too expensive.”
4. “Main character energy means setting boundaries.”
5. “Saying no is self-love, not drama.”

Saying no doesn’t make you weak—it makes you wise.
You don’t owe anyone access to your time, energy, or Netflix password.

05/16/2025

Breaking generational cycles? It’s like trying to update your iPhone with 3% battery and bad Wi-Fi… but you’re doing it. One deep breath, one boundary, one brave conversation at a time.

05/16/2025

Breaking cycles isn’t easy, but neither is carrying them.
You’re not failing your kids…you’re learning how to show up differently.
Let’s talk about healing, communication, and giving your family what you never had.
You deserve support too.

05/11/2025

🌸 Honoring All Forms of Motherhood This Mother’s Day 🌸

Mother’s Day is a time of celebration, reflection, and, for many, complex emotions. As we acknowledge this day, let’s hold space for:
• Biological, adoptive, and foster mothers nurturing with love.
• Those grieving the loss of a mother or child.
• Individuals navigating infertility and the longing for motherhood.
• Single parents balancing multiple roles with resilience.
• Caregivers and guardians who step into maternal roles selflessly.
• Those with strained or estranged familial relationships, finding their own paths to healing.

Your feelings are valid, whether today brings joy, sorrow, or a mix of both. Remember to:
• Practice self-compassion: Acknowledge your feelings!

05/10/2025

AI can write a breakup song in 5 seconds… but it won’t sit with you while you ugly cry.

Yeah, AI is cool. It can write your essay, generate a meme, even suggest why your situationship is ghosting you.
But let’s be real:
AI doesn’t know what it’s like to overthink a text for 30 minutes then delete it.
It doesn’t get that “I’m fine” can mean literally anything but fine.

So if your brain feels like 47 browser tabs are open and none are responding—
You don’t need a chatbot. You need a real one-on-one.

I’m a therapist. No judgment. No filters. No pretending. Just real talk.

05/09/2025

When Your Body Says “Plot Twist”… It’s Not Just Anxiety

You: “Why is my heart racing, I feel like I might pass out, and my brain is running on dial-up?”
Also you: “Must be anxiety.”
Your body: “Actually, it’s POTS.”

Here’s the plot twist nobody talks about:
Sometimes it’s NOT anxiety.
Sometimes it’s…
• POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)
• Thyroid imbalances
• Blood sugar crashes
• Vitamin deficiencies (looking at you, B12 and iron)
• Hormonal shifts
• Cardiac or neurological issues

Anxiety is real. But so is a body screaming for help in Morse code.

If your anxiety tools aren’t working—or your symptoms feel random, physical, or out of the blue—talk to your doctor. Get labs. Ask questions. Don’t settle for “it’s just stress” if it doesn’t feel right.

Mental health matters. But so does your whole-body health.
You deserve both.