Graceful Way Counseling

01/08/2026

🌳 Now offering Walk & Talk therapy! 👟

What Is Walk and Talk Therapy?
Walk and talk therapy is a unique approach to counseling that moves the traditional office setting outdoors. Instead of sitting across from your therapist in a room, sessions take place while walking together in natural spaces like parks or trails. This method combines the therapeutic benefits of movement and nature with professional support, helping many people feel more relaxed and open. Many clients find that movement and nature support deeper insight, emotional regulation, and healing.

Benefits of Walk and Talk Therapy
• Enhances relaxation and reduces stress by reducing cortisol levels.
• Improves mood through movement and natural light.
• Enhances emotional regulation, especially during periods of high stress.
• Helps with creative thinking and problem-solving, helping with processing and insight.
• Supports mindfulness and present-moment awareness which helps reduce rumination and stuck thought patterns.
• Facilitates trauma work by reducing the intensity of direct eye contact.
• Encourages openness-some clients find it an easier way to talk and share.
• Supports mind-body integration through grounding and somatic techniques.

07/19/2025

Healing should incorporate all different aspects ❤️‍🩹

The next frontier in medicine isn’t another drug.

It’s a radical shift in how we view the body, the brain, and disease itself.

Depression is often rooted in systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, trauma, or disrupted circadian rhythms. ADHD may be tied to neuroinflammation, poor blood sugar control, or nutritional gaps like low magnesium, zinc, or omega-3s. And heart disease? It’s largely a food-borne illness, driven by a diet of ultra-processed, inflammatory, nutrient-poor calories.

There is no single root cause. But there are root causes.
And they are almost always connected by lifestyle, environment, and systems-level dysfunction.

Medications have their place… But they were never designed to reverse chronic disease. They manage symptoms, often while the underlying dysfunction worsens.

If we want to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, mental and physical, we need to stop asking what drug treats this and start asking why the body lost balance in the first place.

The answer isn’t in the pharmacy… It’s in how we eat, move, sleep, connect, and live.
It’s in our soil, our food system, our communities, our kitchens.

The next revolution in medicine will come not from the lab but from returning to the root.

05/02/2025

💚 it’s ok to not be ok.
💚 it’s ok to need help.
💚 it’s ok to take a break.
💚 it’s ok to share with others.

💚 May is Mental Health Awareness Month 💚
It's okay to not be okay. Let’s talk about it, support one another, and prioritize our well-being—mind, body, and soul. 🌱🧠✨
Together, we can break the silence and end the stigma. 🫂💬

04/30/2025

I love to embrace duality in all its forms 🖤🤍🩶

04/19/2025

We are wired for connection from the time we enter the world. We need connection to survive. This need never goes away and I think that it’s even a protective factor as we move through the world. With the trauma and stress in our world, a soft place to land, in our relationships is more important than ever 🩵

Dr. Sue Johnson’s wisdom lives on. Learn more about EFT and how it transforms relationships by visiting her legacy website. https://bit.ly/41gPLMv

04/18/2025

All emotions are healthy and serve an important purpose. Anger serves a very protective purpose but it can be so powerful and overwhelming that the purpose can get lost.

Anger often gets a bad rap.
For some, anger is conflated with abuse. For others, with a lack of self-control. Many have been met with punishment, shame, or disconnect when they’ve expressed their feelings of anger, so they’ve learned to hide it or shove it away.

But anger is SO important - it’s your greatest protector.
Your anger is letting you know that something isn’t right; that a deeper need isn’t being met. And if we’re often reactive and quick to anger, it could be that these deeply important needs and parts of ourselves haven’t been met for a very long time.

Anger is also often referred to as a secondary emotion; that underneath the anger is a deeper fear, grief, or unexpressed sadness that hasn’t been allowed to surface. For many men especially, anger has been the only acceptable emotion to show openly, so it makes sense that so many other emotions get channeled through anger.

When I see people who get angry easily, I see their sensitivity.
I see people who care deeply, but haven’t had those tender parts of themselves accepted or appreciated, and who haven’t learned that it’s okay to have big feelings.

For those struggling with being quick to anger or easily overwhelmed by it, what happens if you think of your anger as your protector? What is it trying to keep you safe from?
What don’t you want to give or what might you be afraid to express? What lives beneath the anger?

When we get acquainted with these deeper parts of ourselves and begin to meet them where they are, when we begin to see the patterns of when we feel most angry, and then we can start to meet the deeper needs.
And when we begin to regularly meet those needs, our anger doesn’t have to show up as fiercely or as often.
Be gentle with your own anger.

And if you’re working on being more compassionate & present with your anger, the Let It Go (emotional self management) Workshop begins June 3rd. Come learn practices for improving and developing your emotional resilience and capacity in a supportive, small group setting, and watch the ripple effect begin in your own circles.
This is the only time I'll be teaching this workshop in 2025, and the 4pm time slot is filling up.

https://theeqschool.co/let-it-go-workshop

04/17/2025

Great opportunity for anyone looking for a new career!

Calling all aspiring chefs! The LiftUP Program with The Soup Kitchen of Boynton Beach is a 6-week culinary program for youth interested in a career in culinary arts and hospitality. The program develops job-ready skills, prevents food insecurity and supports community health. To learn more and register for the program, visit https://thesoupkitchen.org/liftup-form/.

04/14/2025

04/14/2025

Urge surfing is a DBT technique to manage cravings—like waves, urges rise, peak, and pass. Instead of giving in, ride it out with mindfulness and control. Cravings lose power when you don’t react.

04/14/2025

Happy Friday!! My brief hiatus from social media ended up being almost 5 years, I thought a good place to start would be a re-introduction. I’ve evolved and been on a path of healing, along with that Graceful Way Counseling and the practice has evolved. I’m hoping to share in this space education about mental health topics and things that may inspire others on a journey of growth and healing. What I won’t be sharing is expert advice or opinions because while I have tons of learned knowledge, I’m still trying my best to be a genuine human in this very messy, complicated world 😊💛

02/03/2025

Recovery is not about willpower but a recalibration of our nervous systems after being in a period of constant fight or flight. These are the things that therapy can help with! 🧠💗