Silvi Saxena, MSW, LSW

05/03/2025

Excited to share I’ll have a new piece published in Evanescent: A Journal of Literary Medicine this summer. Can’t wait for you all to read it. 🤍

03/15/2025

Celebrating my 1st year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. 🙏🤗🎉

10/16/2024

Hey all, check out my latest article on Mentalyc!

Starting a private practice can be a challenging endeavor to take on, and as an unlicensed therapist, it may take a few extra steps.

10/12/2024

❤️‍🩹 Empathy is a lot more than just feeling bad for someone. That alone makes it focus on how you feel and your feeling bad for someone. Empathy is selfless. Empathy is sitting with someone in their hurt, honoring their feelings and prioritizing their pain in that moment or time they are talking about it or going through a difficult time. Empathy is a basic emotional need we all have, and it’s our individual responsibility to show empathy to people we say we care about. Empathy can be shown by checking in, asking to do activities, asking to stay in together and watch their favorite movies, or anything else.

❤️‍🩹 Everyone is different, but the need we all have it to feel seen and cared for. Yet, so many seem unaware of the basic human need we all have and often complain that their partner or loved one is asking too much. Perhaps in these circumstances it’s our own emotional disconnection from hard feelings that keeps us from showing love and care about another persons hard feelings. It’s time everyone takes emotional accountability for themselves to better care for their emotional health and the relationships in their lives.

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08/21/2024

We have a new loss of sibling group starting on September 9th!

Support groups at the Center gather individuals with similar circumstances and types of losses into circles of encouragement. Groups are facilitated by our Center’s staff, specially educated in the area of grief and loss. Structure includes discussion and supportive sharing in an atmosphere of mutual respect and hope.

When: Mondays from 4:30pm-6pm: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, and 10/14
Where: The Center for Loss and Bereavement
3847 Skippack Pike, Skippack, PA 19474
Fee: $90 (covers all 6 meeting times)

Pre-registration is required. Interested? Reach out to Hannah Feehery for a registration form at 610-222-4110 ext. 127 or hnf@bereavementcenter.org

You can find more information about our specialized adult support groups at this link: https://bereavementcenter.org/specialized-adult-groups/

07/30/2024

Here's the weekly schedule of free, confidential NAMI Support Programs. All are welcome! Registration is required for online groups, but not for in-person groups.

Details & Registration: www.namibuckspa.org/support/
Questions: sbal@namibuckspa.org

𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀:
‣ 10 AM - Wellness & Recovery Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901

𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀:
‣ 10 AM - Wellness & Recovery Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 9 PM - Night Owl Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀:
‣ 10 AM - Wellness & Recovery Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 7 PM - Family Support Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901

𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀:
‣ 10 AM - Wellness & Recovery Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 1 PM - Goal Setting Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 7 PM - NAMI Connection
➥ In-Person

𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀:
‣ 1 P - Women's Support Group
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 7:30 P - Anxiety & Depression
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀:
‣ 4 P - Alternatives to Su***de
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 6:30 P - Wellness & Recovery
➥ bit.ly/NAMIVirtual | ID: 912 202 4943 | PW: 202901
‣ 8 P - Weekend Meditation
➥ bit.ly/NAMIGroup | ID: 739 904 7640 | PW: 565372

📱 Emotional Support WarmLine (1-on-1 Peer Support):
‣ 3PM - 10PM - Call 215-343-3055 and press 1

07/10/2024

❤️ Before we can talk about loving someone else, we need to talk about loving ourselves. It can be hard to assert your needs in relationships when you struggle to value your own needs and don’t consider your voice to be important. But your loved ones want you to feel heard and your needs acknowledged. Asserting them means being confident in yourself and that requires self love.

❤️ The only people who benefit from the version of you who doesn’t assert your needs are people who preyed on your low self esteem, silence or passivity. But everyone does have a limit and you matter even if it inconveniences someone. Someone who loves you will honor your needs and treat them with care and safety.

❤️ Relationships will take both people being vulnerable about their needs and those needs being honored without it compromising what your needs are. It will involve respectful communication, no defenses, no assumptions or accusations. If you don’t value yourself, any feedback anyone has will make you feel like they don’t value you.

❤️ Love is more than a feeling, it’s also an action and a choice. There is a give and take is a big part of successful relationships and that comes with both people feeling confident in themselves to share their needs, communicate and being vulnerable. But if there an inherent imbalance in the give and take, one benefits at the expense of the other.

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07/08/2024

🍃 It takes a lot of humility to accept and acknowledge the things that don’t work for you anymore. The way you once used to respond to stress, conflict and negative experiences may have worked in the part to keep you safe, but now that your environment is different, it’s a process to recognize, unlearn and relearn a new way of responding to those stressors.

🌱 Often we cling to the behavior we know best simply out of familiarity and habit. We use our old software and refuse to upgrade because the new one is confusing and it can feel easier, often in moments you need the upgrade, to stick with the old ways. Sometimes after repetitive experiences, some realize that they need the new software or they’re never going to get further than where they are now. Some aren’t able to recognize that it’s a software issue and try other things.

🌿 This is when pride enters the chat. Most of us know when we have pride calling the shots. Some of us may not realize that it is pride that is doing that and that’s where we can start to name the feeling driving our behaviors. Maybe it’s not pride. Maybe it’s feelings of insecurity, inadequacy or rejection. And maybe pride is the shield we use to protect us from revealing what’s truly behind it. Maybe this worked to keep you safe before. But if your goal is to cope with stress, resolve conflict or manage negative feelings, you need a different strategy.

🪴 When this happens—when the goal is no longer just safety—these routine behaviors and habits actually work against you. They keep you isolated. They keep you inward and non-expressive. They keep you occupied and always “on”. It’s often why you may feel so exhausted. This is when it’s beneficial to really consider how much we want to allow fear (insecurity, inadequacy, etc) and pride direct us and consider how much that strategy of dealing with things is actually helping. Most times it’s not helping.

🌳 To get an outcome you haven’t seen before, you need to try something you haven’t done before. But before you can do that, you must accept that the old ways of “coping” aren’t really working for you anymore, they’re actually hurting you, and likely others.

🪴 Growth