Beth Kadlec M.A, LCSW

01/28/2026

THIS right here ⬆️ is a watershed moment

When we can NAME and identify the forces that have been pushing us “to prove” our
Value
Worthiness
Goodness
Acceptability
Deserving-ness

We can start to dismantle the old, and build a new way of relating to ourself and our drives. More authentically

This is the work - finding the truth behind the drive.
You will still be driven, you will still be competent, you will still be successful when you stop trying to prove it.
It might just all flow with more grace… if this resonates drop a 🦋 in the comments

01/28/2026

I love everything about this clip.
Larry in therapist/ patient mode is 🎯

01/11/2026

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO CHANGE PATTERNS? Even when we can see issues and the consequences…

Because all dysfunction/destructive behaviors are an attempt to protect us from feeling pain/hurt.

Lasting change requires us to slow down and find the place where we can identify and FEEL the hurt.

For most of us, we need some nervous system regulation and mental preparation before we are able to tolerate these feelings.

Having a compassionate, safe, connected, therapeutic relationship in place is great foundation.
That’s what we are building every time we show up to session. It feels like magic when we both bring curiosity, willingness and bravery to our meetings.
I may be the guide, but there is no hierarchy. I must show up with same qualities.

My role is to help you feel safe enough to experience and lean into uncomfortable emotions so patterns of protection/dysfunction can be addressed.

Left to our own tendencies, humans choose coping — like distraction, pleasure, comfort and familiarity over change. 🤍

01/08/2026

My office this week.

12/13/2025

It doesn’t mean it’s not FOR YOUR HIGHEST GOOD even if it feels really hard.

When we allow the unsettling and the struggle we might find ourself feeling unmoored from identities and ideas that provided a sense of safety.
They weren’t freedom though ✨

It’s ok to mourn the parts and the versions that served us at a different time.

I wonder if the flower ever misses being a seed?

12/12/2025

When we meet those parts with curiosity, and whole SELF energy those parts can start to relax…

Have you experienced this?

12/01/2025

✨Resist!
✨Water your delusion!
✨Keep the sparkle!

10/28/2025

Welp, since Chat GPT “knows” so much about, here’s what she said this mantis at my office door means today

A few possible messages for you:
• 🌿 Pause before reacting. Even if decisions or conversations feel urgent, spaciousness will give you more leverage than control ever could.
• 🔮 Trust the unseen orchestration. Like the mantis who waits invisibly until the perfect moment, your path may be aligning quietly behind the scenes.
• 💗 Prayerful embodiment. Its posture reminds you that your power doesn’t come from force — it comes from the union of intention and surrender.

10/16/2025

09/29/2025

What a blessing to celebrate my favorite Virgo queen today ♍️👑

08/11/2025

🌺

Life has been extra weird and intense for more than a year now.
Last August I was here, in a completely different incarnation of Self.

I was here as a family. In November I returned on a solo journey.
Now, I sit here with my daughter. Our first trip, just the two of us.

It’s a very special place that welcomes me with open arms every time.

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