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06/24/2025

Being “othered” isn’t just painful—it’s harmful to your mental health.

LGBTQIA+ people face a constant barrage of subtle and overt exclusion: being misgendered, judged, dismissed, or erased. That chronic stress—called minority stress—can lead to anxiety, depression, self-doubt, and burnout.

Mental health care that affirms your identity isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. You deserve to feel safe, seen, and supported.

📍 Looking for LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy?
We’re here for you: www.unfilteredtherapy.com

06/19/2025

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans were finally freed—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a powerful reminder of how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go.

But for many, Juneteenth isn’t just history—it’s a lived reality of resilience, generational trauma, joy, and healing.

This Juneteenth, we invite you to honor the day in a way that supports Black mental wellness, whether you’re part of the Black community or an ally committed to doing the work.

✨ Ways to Honor Juneteenth with Mental Wellness in Mind:
1. Rest as Resistance: Slow down. Give yourself permission to rest—because rest is a radical act in a world that often demands otherwise.
2. Hold Space for Grief and Joy: Allow yourself to feel all of it. The weight of history, the beauty of resilience, the hope for change.
3. Support Black Therapists and Healers: Donate, amplify, and invest in mental health resources created by and for the Black community.
4. Educate Yourself and Others: Learn about the legacy of racial trauma and how it impacts mental health today.
5. Celebrate Black Joy: Uplift music, art, food, storytelling, and traditions that center Black voices and creativity.

Mental wellness is a human right. Liberation includes the freedom to feel, to heal, and to thrive.

06/15/2025

Whether you’re a biological dad, stepdad, foster parent, grandpa, father figure, or chosen dad—your presence, care, and consistency make all the difference.

You’re more than your job. More than a provider.
You’re a role model, a safe place, a steady hand in a storm.

Today, we celebrate you.
Thank you for showing up, in big ways and small.

05/27/2025

Body image is a mental health issue.
And during Mental Health Awareness Month, we need to talk about the silent shame many people carry in their own skin.

From diet culture to filtered perfection on social media, we’ve been fed a narrow definition of beauty—one that leaves most of us feeling like we’re falling short. These unrealistic standards don’t just affect how we look at ourselves in the mirror; they affect our mood, self-worth, relationships, and mental well-being.

Negative body image can contribute to:
• Disordered eating
• Anxiety and depression
• Low self-esteem
• Social withdrawal
• Chronic shame

But there’s another way forward.

Body neutrality teaches us that our bodies don’t need to be constantly judged, fixed, or admired to be valid. It shifts the focus to what your body does rather than how it looks—supporting your mental health by reducing shame and pressure.

And self-acceptance? It doesn’t mean you love everything about yourself. It means you stop fighting your body and start treating it with kindness—even on the hard days.

Your mental health matters more than how you look in a photo.
Your worth was never meant to be measured in inches or pounds.
You deserve peace in your body, not perfection.

05/20/2025

Let’s talk about the invisible labor so many women carry—the kind that doesn’t show up on a to-do list but weighs just as heavily. It’s the mental load of remembering the school spirit days, keeping track of appointments, planning meals, managing emotions (yours and everyone else’s), making the birthday magic happen… while trying to be present and productive at work.

This kind of labor isn’t just about doing chores—it’s about thinking about them constantly. Anticipating needs. Being the default. And it’s exhausting.

We’ve been sold the myth of “doing it all”—but what’s left out is that “doing it all” often means doing it alone, without acknowledgment or rest.

Here’s what helps:

💬 Name the invisible work. Start by noticing and naming the tasks you do that aren’t seen—like emotional regulation, scheduling, or planning ahead. Awareness is the first step to change.

🤝 Share the load. Having a partner or older kids take full ownership of recurring responsibilities (not just helping when asked) creates real relief—not just momentary support.

If you’re feeling stretched thin, it’s not because you’re not doing enough. It’s because you’re doing too much without enough support. That doesn’t make you weak—it makes you human.

Let’s stop glorifying burnout and start honoring balance.

05/19/2025

As we move through Maternal Mental Health Month, it’s important to remember that while motherhood is often celebrated, it can also bring exhaustion, grief, anxiety, and pressure.

That’s why this month matters.

It’s a time to raise awareness for the mental health of mothers during pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.
Because behind the curated photos and smiling faces, many moms are silently struggling with:
• Postpartum depression and anxiety
• Burnout from carrying the mental load
• Grief after loss
• Loneliness in early motherhood
• Shame for not “loving every moment”

1 in 5 mothers experience a mental health condition during the perinatal period. And yet so many suffer in silence.

If you’re a mom who feels overwhelmed or not like yourself lately—you are not broken. You’re not alone. You deserve care.

Let’s keep talking about it—this month and always.

05/14/2025

Many people are praised for being strong, composed, and “holding it all together.” But what we don’t talk about enough is what that strength often hides: unspoken pain, chronic stress, and untreated mental health challenges.

Being the “strong one” can look like:
• Showing up for everyone but yourself
• Minimizing your own needs
• Smiling through burnout
• Struggling in silence because “other people have it worse”

This is especially common among high-functioning individuals—those who are dependable, organized, and appear to be managing everything well. From the outside, they seem fine. On the inside, they’re often overwhelmed, anxious, and isolated.

This is what high-functioning anxiety can look like:
• Constant overthinking
• Difficulty relaxing, even during downtime
• Tying self-worth to productivity
• Avoiding vulnerability out of fear of burdening others

Because society tends to reward resilience and independence, the people who need help the most are often the last to receive it. They are told to “be grateful,” “stay positive,” or “push through.” But emotional suppression doesn’t make the pain go away—it just buries it deeper.

The stigma around mental health doesn’t always show up as open judgment. Sometimes it shows up as silence. As avoidance. As invisibility.

So let’s say it clearly:
Needing support doesn’t make you weak.
Struggling doesn’t mean you’re failing.
You are allowed to fall apart and still be worthy of care.

If you’ve been carrying everything alone, please know you don’t have to.
Even strong people need space to rest.
Even strong people need support.
Even strong people deserve to be held.

05/13/2025

Let’s talk about something that affects nearly every mother—body image.

During Maternal Mental Health Month, it’s important to name a silent source of anxiety for many women: the pressure to “bounce back” or fit into narrow beauty standards that were never designed to honor real bodies—especially not postpartum ones.

What we’ve been told is “beautiful” has shifted across decades, cultures, and trends.
What remains constant? The shame women are taught to carry when we don’t conform.

From flat stomachs to thigh gaps to glowing skin and sculpted arms—the “ideal” body is often whitewashed, filtered, and surgically enhanced. It’s also exclusive, unrealistic, and harmful.

🌍 Around the world, beauty looks radically different.
📺 In media, we’re still seeing limited representation.
🤯 And in motherhood, those messages get louder: “get your body back,” “don’t let yourself go,” “look like you were never pregnant.”

But let’s be clear: your body didn’t go anywhere.
It stretched, carried, created, nourished, survived. It did not fail you.

During this month, we’re unlearning the myths:
• That your worth is tied to your size
• That you need to look the way you did before motherhood
• That self-love means always loving how you look

Here’s what’s true:
✨ Your body deserves respect, not judgment
✨ Your healing is not a race
✨ You don’t owe anyone a “before and after”

Let’s normalize real postpartum bodies. Let’s show more diverse, inclusive representations. And let’s make space for women to exist without being seen as a project in progress.

You don’t have to fit the mold.
You’re already whole.

05/12/2025

As Mother’s Day wraps up, many of us are sitting with complex feelings—some sweet, some heavy, some somewhere in between.

Maybe you felt celebrated. Maybe you felt invisible.
Maybe you spent the day surrounded by love. Or maybe you were grieving what’s been lost—or what never was.
Maybe you’re a mother who’s exhausted. A mother who’s healing. A mother who’s hoping. A mother who’s trying.

However Mother’s Day showed up for you this year—whether it was joyful, painful, awkward, or peaceful—you’re not alone. The emotional landscape of motherhood is vast and layered. It can hold love and loneliness, gratitude and grief, fulfillment and frustration… all at once.

This May, as we honor Maternal Mental Health Month, we’re holding space for every mother:

🌷The new moms in the thick of it
🌷The seasoned moms who are still figuring it out
🌷The moms-to-be waiting with hope (or anxiety)
🌷The moms who have lost children
🌷The moms who have lost their own mothers
🌷The moms navigating motherhood without support
🌷The moms parenting through depression, anxiety, trauma, or burnout
🌷The mother figures showing up in quiet, powerful ways

Your mental health matters. Your well-being matters. You matter.

Let’s continue the conversation beyond the flowers and cards. Let’s check on one another. Let’s name the hard stuff. Let’s make space for rest, support, and healing.

This month—and every month—you deserve care, compassion, and connection. 💛

05/12/2025

There’s no one “right” way to do Mother’s Day. What matters most is that you felt seen, valued, and appreciated.

Here’s to honoring motherhood in all its forms—and honoring you, today and every day. 💐💕

05/07/2025

What makes a “good mom”? And more importantly—who gets to decide?

On Maternal Mental Health Day, we’re pausing to challenge the unrealistic expectations placed on mothers and how those pressures impact mental health behind closed doors.

We live in a culture where motherhood is often treated like a performance:
• Perfect home
• Perfect meals
• Perfect kids
• Perfect patience

But the truth? Perfection isn’t real—and chasing it is exhausting.

Mothers are constantly judged. By strangers, in-laws, the internet… even by ourselves.
You’re too soft. You’re too strict. You’re not doing enough. You’re doing too much.

The constant noise drowns out the one voice that matters most—yours.
Your motherhood doesn’t need to look like anyone else’s. Your identity doesn’t end when your child is born. You are still you. And that matters.

Maternal Mental Health Day is a call to compassion:
• Let’s hold space for the moms who are struggling silently.
• Let’s stop glorifying burnout as a badge of honor.
• Let’s remind every mom that she’s not alone, and she doesn’t have to do it all to be “good.”

Being a good mom isn’t about being perfect—it’s about showing up, being human, and caring deeply… even when it’s messy.

Let’s talk about it:
What messages have you internalized about what makes a “good mom”? What are you unlearning?

05/07/2025

Somewhere along the way, rest became a luxury instead of a right. Especially for mothers.

We’re told to do it all—run households, care for others, work full-time, stay fit, be emotionally available, and somehow still find time to “self-care.” Hustle culture sells us the lie that productivity = worth. And it’s burning us out.

During Maternal Mental Health Week, we’re naming something that often goes unspoken: rest is not a reward—it’s a necessity.

So many mothers are silently struggling under the weight of invisible labor, emotional overload, and the impossible standards society sets. When you finally sit down for five minutes, do you feel guilty? Like you should be folding laundry, answering emails, or “doing something productive”?

That guilt is not yours to carry. It’s a symptom of a culture that devalues caregiving and dismisses women’s emotional well-being.

This week, and every week, we are reclaiming rest as an act of self-respect.
We are honoring slowness as healing.
We are reminding each other that mental health is physical health.

You don’t have to earn your rest.
You’re allowed to slow down.
You’re allowed to do nothing.

And if you need permission—consider this it.

Rest is resistance. Rest is recovery. Rest is your right.

Tag a mom who needs this reminder today.
Let’s talk about what rest actually looks like—and how we can support each other in getting more of it.

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