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Beth Kadlec M.A, LCSW

Psychotherapy for adults/couples in Santa Monica. Ketamine assisted psychotherapy
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Spiritually integrated treatment for anxiety and depression. Help coping with life and career transitions. Recovery coaching/aftercare, and premarital counseling

06/17/2025

So much bitter sweet.
So much holding multiple truths at once.

I went to Michigan for a funeral. One of my best friends lost her child at the age of 20. And he was one of the most shiny, extra special humans out there.
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. His mom is an exceptional, powerful, resilient warrior. Always has been. Now she faces a circumstance that is unthinkable…. With so much grace. In her very own radically optimistic way.

A sh*tty, awful reason for a trip, yet I was so filled with gratitude the whole time. I connected with old friends some of whom I hadn’t seen in 30 years. So I connected with parts of myself that were tucked away for a while.
I was reminded of simple things.
Childhood is SHORT, even though it feels so long while we’re in it.
No one was on their phone. People have regular jobs (I’ve lived in LA for so long, I almost forgot) and they are witty and hilarious and without pretentiousness.

I spent lots of time outdoors with the sounds of frogs, and bugs and in awe of the massive lawns and giant trees of Midwest suburbia. I even encountered a family of deer on my evening stroll around the neighborhood.
This being human… such a ride

05/28/2025

Deciding to take action is really important — but actually doing something is what matters...
or sometimes NOT doing something 🤷‍♀️

Our choices, whether active or passive, shape our reality. While thinking about it and talking about it can be helpful, it's our actions that have true impact.

Embrace the paradox. Be bold today. This is your reminder to do the thing. Tell the truth. Take action. Walk your talk 💥

Have an epic day. I love you.

05/06/2025

Maybe also fall in love with the f*ck ups.
🤷🏻‍♀️🫠🌀🩶🖤❤️‍🔥

04/23/2025

I often hear people say they want to recapture the past – to feel how they used to or get back to a time in life that was easier. But I believe that’s impossible.

Life is a continuous journey forward, upward, and onward – a spiral staircase where we may see familiar sights, but from a different vantage point than we had before.

To me, finding the NEW EYES 👀 or the new perspective is what healing is all about. It’s not as much about changing circumstances, it’s changing our relationship to the circumstances. That’s the secret sauce. 🌀

03/10/2025

Im back
I’ve been away

Not just from the ‘gram

I was missing in action

Circumstances got to me

I forgot the Truth

I got caught up in the emotions and thoughts and stories

And despite my best efforts, I lost my way. I slipped into the churn

Thank god I surrendered to it.
And I stopped TRYING to get out.
I needed to be there.

In the darkness I forgot.
And then this weekend: the remembering

I’m here now
Back in my power

Returning to the ALL and arriving in my body again

Coming back onto alignment with my Authenic Self and soul

Radiant, radical aliveness

Feeling delicate, but also strong AF

Winter was dark. And spring feels so hopeful.

How YOU doin?! 🤪🥹🥰🌈✨

02/11/2025

Ding 💥 Ding 🛎️ Ding 🎯

There is an epidemic of NOT sitting. Not staying. And it’s not our fault. We didn’t learn how. We likely didn’t have someone by our side to help normalize it when we were flooded with emotions, overwhelmed and scared of the process.
In fact our culture glamorizes / shows us a lot more avoidance of what is.

We likely felt shame for not knowing how to live through and sit with hard moments. We likely judged ourselves and compared ourself to others — who seemed to do it better, or have less intense ups and downs.

The shame and judgement became patterns. And that made it harder and harder to sit with it - because now we must sit with shame and judgement as well. They are invited to the table.

There is an invitation that many of us miss to sit with contentment, love, pride, awe, compassion, gratitude and joy as well. Especially in recent years, there’s an energy that beckons us to record the moment, share it, comment on it. Do it for the gram, lol.

When we sit with it — with ALL of it, we can more fully feel it. The experience of feeling is healing and expansive. It strengthens us and makes more room for MORE and whatever is next.

💚 I spend much of my day with clients sitting with it.
And, wowwwww what a dynamic encounter of healing for us all.

01/31/2025

A world full of weirdos is our only hope

01/20/2025

The gravitational pull of habits, sameness, EGO mind and old stories are trying to stop us from breaking free. These forces masquerade as certainty, identity and safety.

Once we are aware of the magnitude of such forces, we can recognize the breaking free as a necessary part of the growth process.

Breaking free sometimes feels worse as it begins. Lots of instability, it can feel gritty and sticky, lots of internal pressure and increased tension.
Use that as traction to LAUNCH higher 🚀

Stay with it, because the freedom and the glide on the side is so worth it.

If this resonates with you, and you’d like my support: please reach out.

Words by

01/04/2025

Please also remember, when we read or say “universe” we are also THAT

Co-creation is real and it’s a process…

Co-creation is endeavoring with and co-mingling with SOURCE and the Divine parts of you.

We are not just meat suits.
We are not just what the mind tells us we are.

What if we connected more to our souls agenda?

What if we aligned more with the calling of our spirit??

Invitation to be more reflective re:
The writing of the plot
The unfolding
The engagement with Self energy
The becoming
The interplay of all things

Please feel to share what you are you co-creating in the comments

11/30/2024

Sitting at the edge of the Pacific Ocean on Thanksgiving morning I felt the most overwhelming experience of gratitude I’ve ever had.

It shattered me.

I felt grateful for EVERYTHING that I *didn’t* want. That’s right.
All of the “sh*t” and stuff that I once thought was horrible… I felt fucccckkiinggg grateful for it.

I sobbed so hard on the beach as I reflected on all the moments that once sucked so bad or were really hard.

I felt grateful
For the friend that stopped talking to me.
For my parents getting divorced.
For being called names.
For my friends dying.
For the ones that broke up with me, ghosted me. For the big and little disappointments.
For the loss. For the grief
For the incredible intensity of my current heartbreak
For allllllllll of it.

I’m pretty sure it changed me.
It felt like a really huge shift, but also felt like, duh 🙄

Integrating.
I appreciate (and ma grateful for, ha!) all the times and ways I’ve been shattered because I get to put myself back together in a new way. However I want to. However I need to be for what’s coming next.

How was your Thanksgiving? 😏

Art

11/20/2024

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Ohhhhhh this can feel SO HARD when the space between is crunchy.

We are so conditioned to make it to the “the next thing” while the journey is what makes exactly who we need to be when we get there.

The grittiness
The crunch
The stickiness
Of the change
It can feel so strange to welcome it.

Newness doesn’t usually present itself as a shiny thing and distinctively apart from what was.
It’s more like a destination that’s far out, like when we are out at sea and can no longer see the shore.

It’s not easy to settle IN the discomfort of the process. The process, the space between IS actually the place to be - because it’s where we are. I’m inviting myself (and you 🫵🏻 if you’re still reading) to offer less resistance and less rushing through the transitions.

I’d love to hear how you tend to yourself in the spaces between 🤍

10/30/2024

🐛 we always in the process of becoming
🐛we are always changing

Am I even in the chrysalis yet?

Feels like I’ve liquified a few times already.

Scorpio season is the time for decay and dying.
It can feel like destruction — yet it’s a natural unavoidable part of the cycle before anything new blooms.

Before anything is created there must be destruction of what once was.

The caterpillar is destroyed —and I bet it’s not a gentle process — the liquification of the body and identity it once knew.

The human experience of metamorphosis isn’t as obvious on the outside, but it’s happening. Every single second we are changing.

Sending so much love to all the 🐛s and 🦋s and all of us in the liminal space of becoming.

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