Mindful Healing

01/15/2026

Now Welcoming telehealth EMDR clients in Virginia 🌿

If you’re looking for support with trauma, anxiety, or feeling emotionally stuck, Mindful Healing is currently welcoming new clients for telehealth EMDR therapy across Virginia.

EMDR is a research-supported approach that helps the nervous system heal, making it easier to feel grounded, regulated, and present.

You don’t have to do this alone—and you don’t have to wait.

Learn more or schedule your appointment at

Mindful Healing, provides a safe space for healing from trauma, anxiety, depression, and more. Call today to schedule an appointment!

01/14/2026

Healing often happens quietly. This is for anyone learning to choose themselves. 💙

Self-Rescue

No one tells you
that saving yourself
isn’t dramatic.
There is no music.
No clean cut between before and after.

It’s a series of small refusals—
I will not go back there.
I will not keep bleeding
just to prove I can survive it.

Saving yourself looks like
leaving the room early,
sleeping when the world says hurry,
forgiving the part of you
that didn’t know better yet.

It is choosing water
when you want something stronger.
Choosing silence
when you want to scream.
Choosing to stay
when disappearing feels easier.

You don’t rise from the wreckage
all at once.
You gather yourself piece by piece,
like broken glass wrapped carefully in cloth,
hands shaking, still gentle.

And one day—
not suddenly, not loudly—
you notice you are breathing
without counting the cost.

That’s it.
That’s the miracle.

You stayed.
-mindful healing-

01/14/2026

A Pause, Not a Fix 🤍

Feeling positive doesn’t mean fixing everything in your head. Sometimes it just means being a little kinder to yourself.

Try pausing and noticing how you actually feel, without judging it. Let good moments linger for a few extra seconds. Speak to yourself the way you would to someone you care about—softly, honestly.

These small mental exercises won’t change your whole life, but they can make the day feel lighter. And some days, that’s more than enough.

01/08/2026

More joy. More intention. More moments that feel like you. 🌿

01/06/2026

Recognizing When a Relationship Becomes Unsafe 🌿

Abuse isn’t always loud or obvious. Often, it’s quiet.

It can look like second-guessing yourself, being careful about what you say, or feeling guilty for things that used to feel normal. Over time, someone’s reactions can teach you to shrink or keep the peace.

Leaving is rarely one big moment. It’s usually a slow realization that something doesn’t feel right, followed by small steps toward protecting yourself. Even after leaving, it can take time to feel steady again.

Healing is about finding your footing, trusting yourself, and learning what safety feels like again.

If you’re navigating this and want support, our therapists are trauma-informed and understand the complexity of abusive relationships. You don’t need the right words or a clear plan to reach out.

For immediate support in Virginia:
Virginia Domestic & Sexual Violence Hotline: 1-800-838-8238

We’re here when you’re ready.

01/05/2026

Self-Respect 💙

I no longer negotiate my worth
with silence or sacrifice.
I stand where I am whole,
not where I am tolerated.

Self-respect taught me
that rest is not weakness,
boundaries are not cruelty,
and choosing myself
is not a betrayal of love.

I honor the space I take.
I trust the no in my chest
and the yes that brings peace.
This is how I return to myself—
without apology.
-mindful healing-

01/01/2026

Stepping into 2026 with calm, clarity, and mindful healing. 💙

12/30/2025

When Grief Shows Up in Dreams 💙

Sometimes grief speaks through dreams. When emotions have been held back for a long time, the mind may use symbols to process what the heart wasn’t ready to feel. Intensity can give way to growth. Emotions that once felt stuck or heavy may begin to shift and soften.

This doesn’t mean grief is returning—it often means healing is happening. When the nervous system feels safe, deeper emotions are allowed to surface, be felt, and transform. Healing doesn’t always happen while we’re awake.

Unresolved emotions can be stirred by many moments—changes in routine, memories, quiet pauses, or reminders of connection and loss. The holidays are only one of many times this may happen.

Be kind to yourself when these feelings arise. Give yourself permission to feel without judgment, to move at your own pace, and to trust that allowing space for your emotions is part of healing.

12/25/2025

Wishing you a peaceful Christmas season.
May this time bring rest, warmth, and moments of calm. 🌲

—Mindful Healing 💙

12/15/2025

Welcome, Wayne! 🌿

We’re excited to introduce Wayne Powell, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Registered Supervisor with the Virginia Board, who is now seeing clients at our practice. 💚

Wayne is passionate about creating a safe, supportive space where you can explore life’s challenges, deepen self-understanding, and work toward meaningful change at your own pace.

Wayne offers both in-person and online (telehealth) sessions, giving you the flexibility to choose what feels most comfortable and supportive for your needs. He welcomes individuals seeking clarity, balance, and emotional well-being and looks forward to partnering with you on your journey.

Please join us in welcoming Wayne to our team — we’re grateful to have him here!

Read his bio below to learn more about his experience and therapeutic approach. 👇
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I was born on the beautiful tropical island of Jamaica, where I completed my undergraduate degree. I completed my graduate studies and residency in Virginia. I have provided mental health services in both my native country and the United States for over twenty-two (25) years. These experiences have broadened my sensitivity to issues that are culturally influenced and others that transcend cultural/ethnic barriers. I combine my personality, international counseling experience and passion to see lives change as I engage my profession. I am tri-lingual (Spanish, English and Patois, which is my Jamaican dialect). The ability to communicate in three languages has proven to be an asset as I "reach out" to the various populations I encounter. I am currently a licensed professional counselor in the state of Virginia. I am a registered supervisor with the Virginia Board of Counseling. I provide clinical supervision for residents in their pursuits to become licensed professional counselors and interns for completion of their graduate degrees. I am also certified in Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) which is an intervention geared at adolescents with a primary diagnosis of substance abuse. I have used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for several years in my interventions with clients, as I believe that our thoughts impact our emotions, which drive our actions.

12/12/2025

Even without photographs, memory finds a way to stay. 💙

What Remains When Images Are Gone

I worry I will forget—
the moments that did not yet know
how precious they were.
The ordinary days, once unnoticed,
the things that mattered
before I knew to name them.

When photographs are lost,
grief arrives quietly—
not only for the images,
but for the fear that the memories
have vanished with them.

Yet memory is not only something we see.
It lives in the way a place still feels familiar,
in how time returns us to a season,
in the body’s quiet knowing
of what once mattered.

The memories I make today
will not disappear with age.
They will soften, change their edges,
and live on as feeling,
as instinct,
as the shape of who I am becoming.

Even when images are gone,
nothing truly precious is lost.
What mattered remains—
carried forward,
not always remembered by sight,
but by how it continues to live within us.

💙 Grief invites us to honor what mattered and notice how it still lives on.
-mindful healing-

12/10/2025

Things I Didn’t Know Yet 💙

I keep wondering what would change if I forgave myself for things that were never meant to happen.

Not the obvious stuff.
The quiet things.
The moments I replay when I’m tired.
The decisions I judge with information I didn’t have at the time.

I hold myself to a standard that never existed in real life — only in hindsight. I expect the past version of me to have known what the present version knows. And then I punish myself for being human inside moments that were undoable.

Some things didn’t go wrong.
They just went differently than I needed.

Some things weren’t failures.
They were limits.

Maybe forgiveness here isn’t a grand moment.
Maybe it’s just a small release.
An honest one.

Maybe it sounds like:
“I didn’t know what I know now.”
“I did what I could with what I had.”
“It still hurts, but I don’t need to bleed for it forever.”

I don’t think forgiveness fixes the past.
I think it gives the present a little air.

And maybe that’s enough for today.