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Salt Psychotherapy, Annie Brogger, MS, LMFT, 1000 Quail Street, Suite 120, Newport Beach, CA (2026)

03/24/2026

where heart & art meet

Using watercoloring and poetry to explore and express our inner experiences, join us as we slow down and make space for the thoughts and feelings so easily misplaced in everyday life.

Mondays at 12:30pm in Newport Beach
$25 for art supplies | $60/session
April 13th to June 1st
*No experience required!

Please register for more information and to connect with one of our facilitators as a short consultation is required prior to join the group. We look forward to connecting with you! Link to register in bio.

Facilitated by Abigail Muchow, AMFT #133561 & Kaylee Robinson, AMFT #138447

Supervised by Annie Brogger, LMFT #44833

03/12/2026

Many of us are feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world right now.

Uncertainty dysregulates the nervous system. It can leave us feeling numb, anxious, angry, or deeply concerned.

While oppressive systems must be confronted and injustice addressed, one of the most powerful ways we bring healing into the world is through our own inner work.

When our wounds remain unconscious, they often get acted out toward others.

But when people begin to heal, something shifts. Compassion grows. Defensiveness softens. We become more capable of caring for both our own vulnerability and the vulnerability of others.

Peace does not come from peacekeeping — avoiding conflict so nothing changes.

Peace comes from peacemaking, which requires courage, humility, and the willingness to face the places within ourselves that live in shadow.

Healing ourselves does not replace justice.

It strengthens it.

Annie 🤍

02/10/2026

Process—

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

—Richard Rohr

02/03/2026

Lately, I’ve been noticing more men showing up on my calendar—and I want to pause and name how meaningful that is to me.

Men grow up swimming in messages that ask them to be strong at the expense of being known. To hold it together. To push through. To carry pain quietly and alone. Many are taught—directly and subtly—that emotional need is weakness, that tenderness is unsafe, that support must be earned.

And yet, men are deeply relational beings.

Their nervous systems long for safety and attunement. Their bodies hold stories that were never given language. Their hearts carry grief, fear, anger, shame, hope—often without a place to rest or be received.

Therapy for men is not about fixing or correcting or taking anything away. It is about integration. About tending to the inner life with care and respect. About learning how to feel without becoming overwhelmed, how to speak without either exploding or disappearing, how to stay present—with themselves and with the people they love.

It is an honor to sit with men who are willing to slow down, turn inward, and say: something here is worthy of attention.

That is not weakness.
That is courage.
That is strength with depth.
That is care.

Annie 🤍

01/28/2026

At Salt, we care deeply about protecting our clients’ vulnerability. Vulnerability is holy and sacred — worthy of care, worthy of love, and worthy of clear boundaries.

We are also mindful of the collective experience. We do not live in isolation from one another. When there is suffering in our communities — when our neighbors are harmed, when people of color and other vulnerable groups are living in fear — that pain moves through the collective body. It affects all of us.

If you are feeling the weight of what is happening in our nation, if witnessing violence and trauma day after day feels like too much, I want you to know: that is a normal human response. It is too much. We are taking in an immense amount of fear, grief, and chaos, all of which place a heavy load on the nervous system.

If you are affected right now, this matters. Your response is not weakness or over-sensitivity. It is empathy. It is the nervous system registering threat to the vulnerable. That is love. That is heartbreak. Hearts break when there is too much pain — and right now, there is too much pain.

We are here for you. We are here to help name what is happening, to validate your experience, and to bear witness to your tender heart. Keep feeling. Keep your heart awake. And please tend gently to your own mental health as you do.

Gentle care for turbulent times:
• Take intentional breaks from your phone and the news
• Write poetry, journal, paint, or create
• Walk in nature and let your body settle
• Extend small acts of kindness to neighbors, friends, family, and strangers
• Allow yourself moments of joy — even quiet ones

Love will always be stronger than hate. Always.

Annie 🤍

01/27/2026

At Salt, we care deeply about protecting our clients’ vulnerability. Vulnerability is holy and sacred — worthy of care, worthy of love, and worthy of clear boundaries.

We are also mindful of the collective experience. We do not live in isolation from one another. When there is suffering in our communities — when our neighbors are harmed, when people of color and other vulnerable groups are living in fear — that pain moves through the collective body. It affects all of us.

If you are feeling the weight of what is happening in our nation, if witnessing violence and trauma day after day feels like too much, I want you to know: that is a normal human response. It is too much. We are taking in an immense amount of fear, grief, and chaos, all of which place a heavy load on the nervous system.

If you are affected right now, this matters. Your response is not weakness or over-sensitivity. It is empathy. It is the nervous system registering threat to the vulnerable. That is love. That is heartbreak. Hearts break when there is too much pain — and right now, there is too much pain.

We are here for you. We are here to help name what is happening, to validate your experience, and to bear witness to your tender heart. Keep feeling. Keep your heart awake. And please tend gently to your own mental health as you do.

Gentle care for turbulent times:
• Take intentional breaks from your phone and the news
• Write poetry, journal, paint, or create
• Walk in nature and let your body settle
• Extend small acts of kindness to neighbors, friends, family, and strangers
• Allow yourself moments of joy — even quiet ones

Love will always be stronger than hate. Always.

Annie 🤍

01/23/2026

Everything about your boundaries is good.

Often, if we grew up believing that people-pleasing was the easiest and safest way to find our place in the world, we can lose access to our ability to exercise our “no”—and even our “yes”—when, deep in our gut, we know what we need.

I often hear clients say they feel dramatic if they speak up, or overly sensitive if they use their voice. Those old tapes usually formed in seasons of life when the goal was not to upset parents, friends, or caregivers—when speaking carried too much risk for a young, vulnerable, developing nervous system.

I remember not speaking up or naming what I wanted or needed out of fear that I would be met with anger or disappointment.

And while staying quiet served me as a child—because it kept the adults around me comfortable—it came at a great cost in adulthood.

Complex trauma has a way of shaping patterns that keep us stuck. Healing, on the other hand, moves us toward embodied adulthood—rooted in clarity, a steady voice, and boundaries that hold.

It’s okay if your “no” makes some people angry.

Find the people who can respect both your “yes” and your “no.”
They are the ones who belong in your sweet and safe inner circle.

12/31/2025

Happy New Year from Salt Psychotherapy!
This year, are you ready to take care of your heart? Are you ready to find a secure place for your tears? Did you know that your salty tears contain two hormones: leu-enkephalin, your body’s natural pain-killer; and oxytocin, which helps to soothe and mend a broken heart?

We want to extend an invitation to you to begin the brave process of letting go of the idea that you need to keep the fight up to heal yourself by yourself. You get to exhale this year, and in so doing may you begin the gentle and sometimes slow practice of learning to rely on someone else for care. This takes an incredible amount of courage, especially if most of what you’ve experienced in this uncertain life is let down.

At Salt, we are advocates for self-care, but more importantly, we champion the parts of you that are learning how to let another person in to care for you. We hope you can create an opening in your soul to tell someone (a wise and caring therapist) the truth about who you are and all you’ve been through, to learn that all the parts of you are deeply beloved.

All of us therapists at Salt find a great honor in caring for our clients with careful, steadfast, sensitive keeping. We specialize in trauma-informed, depth oriented work and seek customization and precision so that your tears bring beauty from ashes, peace and life from discontent. We delight in witnessing our clients wake up to the world with clear eyes that have been touched by the warmth and grace of attunement.

We help people with a variety of matters— depression, loneliness, anxiety, early trauma, relationship struggles, or just an all around ache and longing for wholeness and healing.
We are here for you! You can bring your tears, your whole heart to Salt.

Our biggest desire is to be a safe place for you to heal.
🤍 Annie

12/24/2025

Here is to wishing you peace during this holiday season. May you remember to be gentle and kind to yourself, especially in the tender moments.

This season is hard for so many of us. The proclamation of joy and cheer everywhere often doesn’t feel congruent with our internal reality. If you find yourself feeling low or lost in grief, struggling through depression, loneliness, or anxiety, I want you to know it’s okay. It’s okay to be right where you’re at. Find your people or that person and remember, so many feel the same as you. Hold boundaries if you need to with family. Take time to honor and care for your nervous system. Journal, move, go for a walk, and above all, breathe. Remember, what you feel on the inside is always valid.

Stay near the humblest part of Christmas, this is where you’ll find yours and others hearts.
Annie 🤍

12/05/2025

How to Begin Meeting Your Inner Child — Gently, Safely, Without Overwhelm

Meeting your inner child isn’t a technique. It’s a relationship — a slow, tender return to the part of you who once felt everything without anyone there to help hold it.

First, we must begin with safety.

It doesn’t need to be anything dramatic— just simple, steady safety.

It can look like—
A softened breath.
A warm blanket.
A hand over your heart.
A therapist or trusted presence who helps your body settle enough for your truth to rise.

Approach this younger part with curiosity, not force.

The inner child often appears in subtle ways:
a sudden tightness in the chest,
a wave of shame,
the urge to hide,
the exhaustion that feels much older than the moment.

Let the body speak — but listen to your heart for meaning.

The inner child carries both:
the raw feeling and the unfinished story.
Sensation tells you that something hurt.
The psyche tells you why it mattered.

And if it becomes overwhelming, that’s not a failure, you’re not doing anything wrong.
That’s history.
History, alive in the body, signaling a younger part who had no witness — and who should never be approached alone.

So, Dear One, go slowly.
Slower than you think.

The heart opens in small increments, not grand gestures.

Honor every small shift — they’re not small at all.
A softening breath.
A moment of self-kindness.
A loosening of the inner critic.
These are signs your inner child is no longer alone.

Because this work isn’t about going backward. It’s about bringing forward the presence, safety, and compassion you deserved all along.

This is the path to healing.
🤍Annie

11/29/2025

The Inner Child: Where Body and Soul First Met

The child within us is not a concept — it’s the living place where body, psyche, and soul first met.

Annie 🤍

Before we had words, the heart and body felt everything. Joy. Fear. The ache of disconnection. The warmth of being seen. Those early experiences shaped how our nervous system learned to protect us and how our heart learned to open — or close.

When no one was there to help us hold what we felt, the body stored the pain and the mind created stories to make sense of it. The “inner child” is the part of us that still carries both: the raw feeling and the unfinished story.

Healing that child is not about regression — it’s about integration, about connecting with the truest, pure part of who you are.
It means meeting the parts of us that were once alone in their pain with the presence we needed then and can offer now.

This is where body and psyche begin to speak the same language again — where we feel what we once had to hide, and hold what we once had to split off.

The heart becomes the bridge between who we were and who we are becoming.

11/13/2025

“When the Heart Reopens”

Lately I’ve been feeling a quiet ache watching how we talk about the nervous system online.

Somatic healing is powerful. Learning to regulate, to breathe, to notice our body’s signals — these are vital steps toward safety.

But healing doesn’t end there.

The body holds trauma, yes — and so does the psyche. Our nervous system often adapts to feelings we never got to feel, to stories that went unwitnessed. When the pain was too great, and we didn’t have a loving attachment figure to help us feel, regulate and contain the overwhelming emotions, the heart closed, and the body learned to carry what consciousness could not.

True healing happens when these two parts — body and psyche — begin to meet again. When the sensations of the body and the meaning of the story finally find each other.

This can only happen in safety — not just a clinical kind of safety, but a relational and soulful one. The kind that comes from being with someone trustworthy, steady, and attuned. The kind that allows the heart to risk softening again.

Because the heart is both the container and the destination of healing. It’s where the unremembered feelings can finally be felt, held, and integrated.

Facing what once felt unbearable isn’t about re-living pain; it’s about reclaiming wholeness. The heart that once closed to survive learns it can stay open and stay safe.

That is the quiet work of real healing — where body, mind, and soul remember each other again.
🤍Annie

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