Amber M. Keating, LCSW

09/19/2025

09/17/2025

If last week’s sociopolitical ridiculousness rather zapped your will to live, I get it. Join me on the ‘Stack for the full article! (Special shoutout if the title made you sing a certain Gwen Stefani song 💃🍌) https://open.substack.com/pub/ambersaysshine/p/this-sht-is-bananas?r=621kq&utm_medium=ios

09/02/2025

: Recognize this core inner conflict? “I want help but cannot ask for or receive it” 🤪 My latest Substack — https://open.substack.com/pub/ambersaysshine/p/its-me-hi?r=621kq&utm_medium=ios

08/27/2025

Trauma work is exhausting. You do one thing & then you're too tired to do anything else for the rest of the day bc your body & brain & nervous system are still in fight or flight response & you're trying to unlearn core beliefs & release the memories & emotions your body is holding & it's all so much.

Sending love to everyone going through this right now.

08/27/2025

Yup yup. This is how we learn to gaslight ourselves, thus becoming vulnerable to the gaslighting of others. Please, BELIEVE YOURSELF 💪🏻

08/27/2025

Today’s protest song, for pushing back against everything and everyone who tries to diminish our whole self, to crush our spirit, to make us kowtow to corruption. We’re not having it! Come on, friends, I wanna see you be BRAVE!

Official music video for ”Brave” by Sara Bareilles​Listen to Sara Bareilles: https://SaraBareilles.lnk.to/listenYD ​Watch more videos by Sara Bareilles: http...

08/27/2025

Perfectionism = masking
Perfectionism = exhaustion
Perfectionism = inauthentic
Is that really what you value… inauthentic masking that yields exhaustion? Maybe there’s a better way to be in this life 💕

https://open.substack.com/pub/ambersaysshine?r=621kq&utm_medium=ios