Michelle Hebert LPC Counseling Services

09/30/2025

A German startup has invented a backpack that unfolds into a high-tech, weatherproof emergency bed—a true lifeline for the homeless community.

This isn't just a sleeping bag; it's a portable, sustainable shelter packed with features:

✅ Solar Power: Built-in panels charge during the day to power night-time essentials.
✅ Thermal Insulation: Keeps users safe from brutal winter cold and damp conditions.
✅ Built-in LED Lights: Provides dignity and safety during the darkest hours.
✅ Phone Charging Ports: Critical for maintaining contact with social services, job searches, and family.

This Innovative Design focuses on dignity and immediate safety, providing a secure, warm space when shelters are full. It's a powerful example of Social Entrepreneurship tackling the homelessness crisis with Sustainable Tech solutions.

We believe that basic shelter is a human right. If every city adopted this approach, how much better could our world be?

07/31/2025

If you tell a child that an abusive parent 'really does love them,' then how are you going to tell a teenager that abuse is not love?
You can't. Because by then, you've already taught them that love can look like control, sound like screaming, and feel like fear. You’ve conditioned them to normalize pain if it comes from someone who claims to care. So when they end up in toxic relationships later in life—ones filled with emotional manipulation, gaslighting, or even physical harm—they won’t always recognize it as wrong. Why? Because it feels familiar. Because that seed was planted early on, when you asked them to overlook harm in the name of love.

When a child is taught to excuse abuse simply because it comes from a parent, they grow up believing that love is supposed to hurt. They learn to tolerate mistreatment and call it loyalty. They silence their own pain to keep the peace. They second-guess their instincts because someone they trusted told them that “it wasn’t that bad.” So how can you expect them to suddenly understand, as a teen or adult, that abuse is unacceptable? You’ve already blurred that line for them.

It is not love when someone violates your trust, your body, your voice, or your spirit. Love doesn’t shame you, humiliate you, or use fear as a weapon. Real love protects. It uplifts. It makes you feel safe, not small.

If we want to raise emotionally healthy adults, we have to start by being honest with children. Stop telling them that abuse is love. Stop romanticizing suffering. Call harmful behavior what it is—so they can grow up knowing the difference between being loved and being controlled, between discipline and cruelty, between protection and possession.

Children deserve the truth. And healing begins when someone finally says, “What happened to you was not love.”

07/28/2025

07/27/2025

**Character Assassination**
A narcissist will have no qualms whatsoever in assassinating your character. It is an intentional attempt to influence and cause others to develop an extremely negative opinion of you. They manipulate facts, slander, and spread rumours in order to paint an untrue picture of their target, opening the target up for unwarranted and excessive criticism. Otherwise known as **"The Smear Campaign!"**

The smear campaign is a calculated and cruel tactic, designed to isolate the victim, destroy their reputation, and shift attention away from the narcissist's own toxic behaviors. It often begins subtly — with backhanded compliments, twisted stories, or passive-aggressive remarks — and gradually escalates into a full-blown onslaught of lies and defamation. The narcissist thrives on controlling how others perceive their target, making it nearly impossible for the victim to defend themselves without appearing “defensive” or “unstable.”

What’s most insidious is that narcissists are often charming and persuasive in public. They carefully curate an image of themselves as kind, generous, and credible, while simultaneously portraying their victim as problematic or even dangerous behind closed doors. By the time the victim realizes what’s happening, they are already surrounded by a cloud of suspicion and judgement.

Survivors of narcissistic abuse frequently find themselves in emotional turmoil — not only because of the betrayal but because of the disbelief from others who’ve been manipulated. The smear campaign is psychological warfare, designed to silence, discredit, and isolate.

The only antidote is truth, self-respect, and refusing to engage in their toxic games.

06/30/2025

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06/14/2025

The pride in your child’s face alone when they accomplish something scary is worth it. I promise.

05/02/2025

https://www.exboyfriendrecovery.com/traits-avoidants-find-attractive/

This is Sarah. She got her avoidant ex back twice (you can see I interviewed her twice ;) .) And this was despite that fact that he said "they'd never get back together..." And again, he did this twice. I interviewed Sarah to learn exactly what traits her avoidant ex found attractive, and I learned