Empower Psychotherapy with Candace Bennett, LMHC

11/14/2025

11/05/2025

Letting go is the quiet act of release that creates space for healing, it’s both surrender and rebirth. Healing doesn’t rush in; it arrives slowly, like the sunlight through the branches of an oak tree, softening the shadow. Gently illuminating the path forward, one step at a time leading you to transformation.

02/18/2023

I’ve been illustrating some of my posts to add to my upcoming book, Once Upon an Upset: Stories, Essays, and Memes to Help Make Sense of Difficult Times. This is one I finished tonight, based on this text below. The size is really long, so if you want to see the whole thing, you might have to click on it.

One reason I began to ease up on the demands I placed on my son was not only thinking about how stressful it was as a kid when so many demands were placed on me, but because when I examined the voice I was using to dish out all those demands, it wasn’t entirely my voice.

It was my father’s voice, my aunt’s voice, my stepmothers‘ voices—all the conditioning I had absorbed that tried to convince me what was necessary to have a life that was normal, proper, successful and safe from judgment.

But when I listened to my own voice, all it wanted was to understand what was important to my son, to connect with him as he is, and guide him through grace, love, acceptance, and flexibility.

-JLK

02/17/2023

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