Megan B. Bartley, MAMFT

30/06/2025

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The Mindfulness Center

24/06/2025

🤩 Check out my new blog post!! 🤩

➡️Balancing boundaries when parenting adolescents!💯

By Megan Bayles Bartley, LMFT “My 12 year-old daughter thinks I’m the meanest parent in the world because I won’t let her go to the mall with a friend unsupervised party. Am I being overprotective? Am I pushing her away by setting these limits?” If you’ve ever asked yourself questions like...

24/05/2025

🤩My lates blog about teens and emotions!🧐

By Megan Bayles Bartley, LMFT We’ve all been there—standing in the kitchen, completely blindsided by our teenager’s emotional response to what seemed like a simple question. “How was your day?” somehow escalated into slammed doors and tears, leaving you wondering, “What just happened?”...

22/05/2025

My latest interview on HuffPost! 🤩🤩🤩

Being really honest about what I wanted (and didn't want) for Mother's Day made the day so much better for me.

19/04/2025

🚨 Teen Parent Alert! 🚨

I find the adolescent stage of development super-fascinating and have been excited to be a mom to teens. 🤪😬

Check out my latest blog post to better understand what's actually happening in your teen's brain! 🤯

By Megan Bayles Bartley, LMFT Parenting adolescents is like navigating uncharted waters in a boat that keeps changing shape. Just when you think you’ve found your balance, everything shifts again. Not too dissimilar to the toddler years. I see it daily in my therapy practice at The Mindfulness Cen...

13/03/2025

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by Ashley Vaden, LMFT   It was one of those Sundays when the weight of an endless to-do list—each task not insurmountable in itself—still managed to overwhelm me. Rather than spiral into endless doom scrolling, I reached for “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Think...

22/01/2025

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❤️ I. Love. This!! ❤️

➡️ Need a shift of perspective? Check out this quick read!! 💯

by Ashley Vaden, LMFT   “You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” These words, attributed to Henri-Frederic Amiel, hold a quiet truth that many of us resist. Depression, in all its weight and misery, feels like the enemy—something...

21/01/2025

💯 January Vibes! 🐧

04/01/2025

When my husband was 13yo, he read a book about Shackleton's survival storyin Antarctica.

For the past 37 years, he's been dreaming of stepping foot on Antarctica, which would be his (and my) 7th continent. 🤩

This past year, my husband turned 50, and we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. ❤️

To commemorate these major milestones, we took our 12yo and 14yo with us to Antarctica to help Ben realize his life-long dream. 🐧

The first morning I woke up and saw land, my first thought was, "This is UNREAL!!" The one word that describes Antarctica is Magestic. It is incredible!

It has been a wonderfully transformative experience for all of us. 💯😎

13/12/2024

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One of the ways I practice self-care is regular float therapy appointments—90 minutes effortlessly floating in a dark and silent tank filled with 1000+ pounds of Epsom salt—it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I come away from my floats with relaxed muscles and a quieted mind. Before my most ...

22/09/2024

🥳 BIG CELEBRATION!!! 🥳

My husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this week!! 😍

We have been reflecting on what has *gotten us through* 🤪😂 22 years together and 20 years married. 🤔

Here's what we have come up with so far...

❤️ The memory of our meet-cute: A softball game at Tom Sawyer Park

❤️ Adventure: 19 international trips (16 countries), 50 stateside trips (24 states), 7th continent this winter, Texas to Kentucky move with a 1yo and 4yo, entrepreneurship, raising 2 children...

❤️ Humor and laughing

❤️ Unconditional love

❤️ Openness

❤️ Flexibility

❤️ Seeking to understand

❤️ Being present in the moment

❤️ Focusing on the positives, rather than the negatives

❤️ Learning from our differences

❤️ Giving each other space

❤️ Parenting from the inside out

❤️ Setting yearly and long-term goals and intentions

Like all marriages, we have definitely had some rough times. 💯

We've been to our share of marriage therapists throughout the years and sat with discomfort and disagreements. 🤯

At the end of the day, we know we help each other be better people and That. Feels. Amazing! 🤩😎

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16/09/2024

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Using Your Gut by Keith Williams One of the pieces I treasure about our work at the Mindfulness Center is the invitation for those seeking help to consult with a therapist prior to meeting with them. This is a special opportunity to ask questions and to get a “gut” feeling about whether or not t...