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03/21/2026

Still time to sign up!!

Starting next THURSDAY at 1pm, virtual!

Link to sign up is in my bio 💜

03/19/2026

When life gives you lemons—— you pivot?? Is that how that goes?

Group will now be starting next THURSDAY at 1 pm for 5 weeks instead of Wednesday! I heard your feedback, and I hope some sweet faces sign up.

Sign up is in my bio!

03/11/2026

It’s about time 💜

Join me!

Every Wednesday for 5 weeks starting 3/26 at 11:30 am.

$100 for all 5 groups or $25 per session.

As a mom of young kids— I’m in the trenches with you.
We talk about a needing a village, but so many of us don’t have them- or don’t have them nearby.

Let’s cultivate one together where we can share and receive support (not advice and not “just waits”)

The link to sign up is in the comments!

Limited spots available, so fill out the form to reserve your spot.

If you have any questions, message me! Happy to help 💛

03/05/2026

Why does this feel so obvious and so revelatory at the same time?

If you’re anything like me— you approach emotion with your mind. Nothing wrong with that- but if you have a busy mind, it might keep you stuck there.

What if we first (and maybe only) try to feel it in our body?

Why? Glad you asked.

Without somatic (in your body) experiencing, the emotion can stagnate in your mind. It doesn’t allow the emotion to flow through us, but keeps it in a cognitive loop. Through noticing the body, it helps the nervous system complete a stress cycle. Our body is always trying to process and outlet the emotions we feel. Afterall, aren’t emotions sensations anyway? Of course we need to experience them physically to process them, when physically is how they show up, right?

Here’s how we might try this:

1. check for physical safety so you might be able to connect to the body.
2. Take some breaths and then notice…
3. Where does the emotion live in my body? What does it feel like? Warm? Cold? Tense? Moving or still?
4. Let it exist. No breathing it away, or telling stories. Maybe continue to come back to self-talk such as, “this tension in my belly is allowed to be here”
5. Sit with this for maybe a minute or two! Doesn’t have to be long.
6. If it’s too much, come out of it! Bring your awareness back to the room you’re in, and then maybe gently return to the sensation if you’re comfortable.
7. After a minute or two… you’re done!! You did it. You practiced somatic experiencing. Being in your body. With repetition you may become more comfortable with your emotions/sensations, and naturally allow them to come and go like weather systems. I’m in it with you! This is a newer concept for me that I’m practicing :)

02/20/2026

The quintessential Bloom sneaker photo 💘

You know what I’ve been chewing on lately??

💫 To be/ practice resilience doesn’t feel good. 💫
Why does that feel like such a revelation to me???

I think I had unconscious beliefs that when practicing resilience it would feel empowering. There would be some sort of awareness in the moment of— this is it. This is the hard moment. Let me be resilient here.

After welcoming my second child, I’m learning a lot of resilience is just sustaining through the hard. For me, it’s something I am aware of typically only in hindsight.
And it hasn’t felt good. It’s felt like survival mode, grief, anger, and muddling through as best as I can.

When I recognized THAT was resilience, there was a shift that happened that felt like freedom to allow resilience to not feel good, or empowering (though it can feel like that at times too!)

What beliefs do you hold around resilience? What does it mean to you?

02/11/2026

Why Bloom?

Well, you get to decide 😁
I’ll just tell you a little bit about us. Us = Mel and Maddie. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Here’s what I know to be true:
•we are both committed to this work. I (mel) often say that there’s no other job I would do. And truly, I mean it. Nothing piques my interest more than what makes us human. Both of us are lifers in therapy, and attend regularly to have someone come alongside to ‘life’ with us.
•we actually really do care. We think about people outside of session, research, listen to podcasts, read— you name it. We both WANT to help you find greater peace and ease. If we wanted to be rich, we wouldn’t be counselors 😆
•we do our best to live aligned with our own value systems. Both of us have conversations regularly about what we struggle with, what we might work on, and how to commit to growth and our own values over and over again. We will never give you feedback to ‘go to a place’ we haven’t gone or wouldn’t go ourselves.
•we are clowns. Both true enneagram 7’s *rolls eyes* who really like to laugh, bring levity, and it’s also just really hard to offend us.
•we will not always be right, but we will work to get it right. We recognize that we will make mistakes and do our jobs imperfectly, and both of us have committed to the practice of repair, learning & showing up in an authentic and open way.

If you want to know more— just ask us!

02/08/2026

Healing is not a destination, it’s an orientation.
Social media and wellness culture makes us believe we might arrive at a “healed” state one day, if we could only just try hard enough. If we could spend 8 billion dollars trying every healing modality out there, then just maybe— you could be healed too.

If only that worked. I wouldn’t have a job 🤷🏻‍♀️
To orient towards healing instead of arrive- it might look like this…

•the unsexy work of accepting pain and inconvenience, recognizing it as an inherent part of life (@ me 😒)
•continuing to pursue things where you notice a more calm nervous system and revisiting those things as much as your life allows (this could be some of those monetary activities- or maybe just going outside, drinking water, crying, talking to your friend, etc)
•noting when you feel most activated and triggered and then exploring that with love and compassion (maybe with a therapist 😁)

Mostly, just accepting that you likely will never arrive at a ‘healed’ state, and recognizing life isn’t neat and linear and that it is okay and there’s nothing wrong with you for not being ‘healed’???

What does healed even mean??

How do you orient towards healing over and over again??

01/13/2026

How does this land for you? 💡

A natural part of human nature is worry. Thinking, preparing, problem-solving. You know if you’re no longer in problem-solving and into rumination when you begin to ‘circle the drain’, and it no longer becomes helpful. It’s like picking at a hangnail, and you feel sick of thinking about something.

Here’s what we can try together.
Instead of using our mind to exit our mind (hard for people prone to busy minds), how about we intervene with our body; with our actions.
In my 33 years of life I have been unsuccessful almost every time of thinking myself out of a spiral. (For some people, that is untrue! Some people respond well to CBT stuff- myself included at times)
And for some of us, we need to get out of brain mode into body mode. How?

Move. Walk. Talk to someone. Cry. Journal. Go watch a show. Video games. Podcast. Read. Paint. Draw. Get creative!

In sum, engage with something else entirely. You likely won’t want to. Brain will tell you you’re a millimeter away from worrying yourself into safety. That is not true.

Something that engages your body and gets you into your right brain— the creative, calm, regulated side…. That is the sauce.

No, this isn’t avoidance. This is actually a doorway to greater perspective, creativity and regulation— the foundations of ACTUAL problem-solving. I can trust that my regulation is what prepares me for unknowns as opposed to obsessive thinking.

As always, my tips aren’t always or never or one size fits all. Experiment with this if you’re maybe a little like me and you live in outer space a bit (lol)

In the body first, in the mind second. (Or not at all bc a lot of times a situation doesn’t actually need me to solve it. *gasps at own irrelevance*

01/05/2026

First day back from maternity leave, and feeling so refreshed and excited to be seeing and working with awesome people. Just happy to be here 🥲

12/15/2025

🪷 Let’s take time to welcome our newest addition to Bloom….

Maddie Blyer, LPC! 🪷

It’s rare that I am able to take a new client on, so I feel delighted to add Maddie to the Bloom team with immediate availability virtually. Her clinical excellence is only just second to her warmth and ease.

Email madisonblyer@gmail.com to reach out and potentially schedule!

Check out her bio on the website to learn more about her, her approach, and what makes her a very special person and provider.

She will book quickly, so I’d shoot your shot 🤗

11/12/2025

Still alive over here! 🫶🏻

Little guy, Luka Thomas was born on 9/30, and we are slowly adjusting as a family of four!

I miss my clients and my work, and can’t wait to get back at it in January. You’ll be hearing from me in the next month or so to schedule!

Love,

Mother of Bloom (lol)

And a fun update coming in December- stay tuned! 🫶🏻 🌺

08/20/2025

What can boredom teach me this week?

That’s what I’m chewing on this misty Wednesday 🌺

So far, I’m recognizing my discomfort with boredom and my desire to avoid it for myself and also my daughter who gets cranky when she’s bored. lol.
I seek to fill empty spaces with my phone, books, food, podcasts, you name it.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with any of these things, and using distraction and things we enjoy isn’t ‘unhealthy’ until we (I) recognize the discomfort when every second isn’t filled, or that the sensation of discomfort in general registers as ‘bad’ in my mind.

I couldn’t find the ‘right’ podcast this Sunday on my walk so I was sort of pi**ed off and hastening around trying to finish it quickly (lol), and then I looked up and saw this flower.

I could’ve missed it. And I’m glad I didn’t. Ohio is cool.

I know boredom has a lifetime of information for me, if I allow myself to linger in those mundane spaces for just a hair longer. I just know I don’t want to miss whatever it is.

Boredom isn’t a sexy process, really. There’s no dopamine in it. I do find it’s peaceful, however. And it forces me not to miss stuff as much.

Let’s keep learning together.

Cheers to a mundane Wednesday!
And in case you need a PSA—- don’t believe social media. We are all bored, uninspired, and not doing anything cool whatsoever the majority of the time 😁

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Medina, OH
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Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	9am - 7pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm
Friday	9am - 4pm
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http://www.bloomcounselingmedina.com/

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