Beverly J. Matthews, Psychotherapist

09/28/2025

09/26/2025

09/24/2025

When you keep criticizing your kids, they don’t stop loving you.
They stop loving themselves.

Children are like mirrors—they absorb your words and reflect them inward. What you tell them often becomes their inner voice. Constant criticism plants seeds of doubt, shame, and low self-worth.

🌱 Instead of tearing them down, lift them up.
🌱 Instead of focusing on their mistakes, guide them with patience.
🌱 Instead of pointing out only flaws, acknowledge their efforts and strengths.

Your words have the power to shape your child’s confidence, resilience, and sense of identity. The home should be their safe space, not their battlefield.

Remember: Discipline teaches. Criticism wounds. Encouragement heals.

✨ Speak with kindness. Correct with love. Support with understanding. ✨
A child who grows up feeling valued and respected becomes an adult who loves and respects themselves—and the world around them.

09/24/2025

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09/23/2025

The most profound realization from my near-death experience?
That being love is enough. 💛

I didn’t need to fix myself, prove myself, or become anything more.
Just by being who I truly am—an expression of love—I was already healing.

We are all facets of the same Whole.
When we live our truth and embody love, we fulfill our deepest purpose.

09/23/2025

09/20/2025

Amy Schumer once shared these inspirational words: "When we’re little girls, we have all the confidence in the world. We let our bellies hang out, and we just dance and play and pick our wedgies. And then these things happen that just make us question ourselves. Somebody says something mean to you on the playground and then we grow up. And you doubt yourself over and over again until you lose all that confidence; all that self-esteem; all the faith you started with is gone. But what if we didn’t let those moments get to us? What if we were stronger than that? What if we didn’t care about how we looked, or how we sounded? What if we never lost that little girl confidence? What if when someone tells us that we aren’t good or thin or pretty enough, we have the strength and the wisdom to say 'What I am is better than all that. Because what I am is me. I am me. And I’m proud to be me.'"