Anchoring Hope Counseling, LLC

02/21/2026

Keys of Hope conference 2026
Supporting mental health and wellness within our communities ⚓️

02/13/2026

💜 A reminder about other kinds of love...

02/13/2026

Your brain has natural feel-good chemicals — and you can activate them gently, every day 🌿

Healing isn’t only about talking through trauma. It’s also about regulating your nervous system, creating safety in the body, and helping your brain relearn that life can feel good again.

These 4 “happy chemicals” play a huge role in trauma recovery, emotional regulation, and mental wellbeing:

🧠 Dopamine – motivation & reward
💛 Oxytocin – connection & safety
🌿 Serotonin – mood stability
⭐ Endorphins – stress & pain relief

When you live with trauma, your system can get stuck in survival mode. Small daily actions like rest, movement, connection, nature, and creativity help shift you from fight-or-flight into calm and balance.

This is nervous system healing.
This is emotional recovery.
This is how we rebuild safety from the inside out.

Save this for days you feel low 🤍



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02/13/2026

The RAIN Technique was developed by meditation teacher Tara Brach, combining mindfulness and self-compassion to help people work with emotions instead of fighting them.

RAIN stands for:

R — Recognize what you’re feeling
A — Allow the emotion to be there
I — Investigate with curiosity and kindness
N — Non-identification (you are not your emotions)

Why RAIN is so effective for trauma & anxiety:

✨ It slows the stress response
✨ It moves you out of survival mode into awareness
✨ It reduces emotional overwhelm
✨ It builds self-compassion instead of self-criticism
✨ It creates a pause between feeling and reacting
✨ It helps prevent dissociation
✨ It teaches your nervous system that emotions are safe to feel

You’re not “too emotional.”
You’re learning regulation — and that is a skill.

💙 Try this extra grounding exercise:
Place one hand on your chest and one on your stomach.
Breathe slowly and say:
“I can feel this and still be safe.”
Repeat 5 times.

Small practices = big nervous system shifts.

02/13/2026

02/11/2026

Teen Expressive Group led by Ashley for our adolescent girls. Call for more information and to reserve your spot. Insurance and self pay accepted!

02/11/2026

02/02/2026

No matter how heavy your burdens may feel, or how deep your wounds go, you are not broken—you are human. We all carry scars, and those scars are a testament to our strength, not our defeat.

There’s light within you, a resilience that can’t be dimmed by the darkness you’ve faced. And that light isn’t just for you—it’s something that someone else in this world needs.

Hold on to hope. Keep believing in your own worth. You are not alone, and you are far from broken.
Let this be your reminder today: You are worthy of healing, of love, and of the life you desire. 💛

02/02/2026

New group starting Saturday, March 14th! Call or email to get your spot with Lindsay.

(937)550-9129 or admin@anchoring-hope.com