Color Your Path Counseling

12/10/2025

Yup

12/09/2025

Sending love, peace, and healing to all impacted. This loss is a heartbreaking reminder of the work still needed to create safer, more supportive systems for those who care for our communities. May we keep moving toward change with compassion and courage

11/24/2025

Grief has a way of testing the parts of us we’ve been working so hard to reclaim.
It calls old versions of us to the surface — the pleaser, the peacekeeper, the one who hands their voice away to keep everyone else steady.

But not anymore.

There was a time I kept myself in pieces —
quiet, convenient, digestible —
because it made me easier for others to love.
Easier to carry.
Easier to rely on.

I used to absorb every storm around me
so no one else had to face their weather.
And somehow, their emotions became my responsibility.

But healing changes the math.
When we weave ourselves back together,
we stop abandoning ourselves in the name of someone else’s comfort.
We stop shrinking just to make their experience easier to swallow.

And that shift can be hard for others to understand —
especially when our grief and their expectations collide.

But hear this:
Your becoming is not a betrayal.
Your boundaries in moments of heartbreak are not cruelty.
Choosing yourself is not selfish.
Your grief deserves space,
even if others wish it looked different.

And no amount of guilt or pressure
gets to undo the work it took to come home to yourself.
Not now.
Not ever.

11/24/2025

Grief has a way of testing the parts of us we’ve been working so hard to reclaim.
It calls old versions of us to the surface — the pleaser, the peacekeeper, the one who hands their voice away to keep everyone else steady.

But not anymore.

There was a time I kept myself in pieces —
quiet, convenient, digestible —
because it made me easier for others to love.
Easier to carry.
Easier to rely on.

I used to absorb every storm around me
so no one else had to face their weather.
And somehow, their emotions became my responsibility.

But healing changes the math.
When we weave ourselves back together,
we stop abandoning ourselves in the name of someone else’s comfort.
We stop shrinking just to make their experience easier to swallow.

And that shift can be hard for others to understand —
especially when our grief and their expectations collide.

But hear this:
Your becoming is not a betrayal.
Your boundaries in moments of heartbreak are not cruelty.
Choosing yourself is not selfish.
Your grief deserves space,
even if others wish it looked different.

And no amount of guilt or pressure
gets to undo the work it took to come home to yourself.
Not now.
Not ever.

11/23/2025

Feels like this aligns with this week's therapy theme, especially with some of the harder work clients have been doing. The holiday season is here, and it can bring up opportunities to dive in.

11/21/2025

Such a helpful visual when exploring how our patterns shift in different stages of survival. A reminder to stay curious, gentle, and grounded with yourself as you notice what shows up.

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn aren’t choices, they’re survival responses.
We don't consciously choose how we respond.
These instincts are automatic survival responses wired into our brains. Understanding this can help us be kinder to ourselves when coping with trauma.

11/17/2025

There’s a moment in this work that stays with me every time —
that quiet, meaningful moment when a client returns after a therapeutic pause.
Not because the work got easier…
but because she chose to come back to it anyway.

Sometimes a hard truth lands, and someone needs space.
Space to breathe.
Space to feel.
Space to decide whether she’s ready to step toward the deeper work or step away from it for a while.
That choice is never light.

Because real healing isn’t the shiny, inspirational version we see online.
It’s tender.
It’s uncomfortable.
It’s meeting the parts of yourself you’ve tucked away —
the protectors who’ve worked so hard,
the younger parts carrying old hurt,
the reactions that once felt like survival.

It’s turning toward all of them with just a little more courage than the day before.

And then she came back.

She walked in with more steadiness, more clarity, more of herself —
and she thanked me.
But truly, it was her courage in that pause that did the heaviest lifting.
Her willingness to listen inward.
Her decision to return and keep moving toward herself.

These are the moments that remind me why this work matters.
The pause.
The reflection.
The brave return.

It was all her —
and it’s a privilege to witness someone choosing their own healing in real time.

11/16/2025

Makes sense right?

11/10/2025