Dr. Rhonda Mattox

11/10/2025

What is the lesson that I need to learn in this season?

10/10/2025

I am really trying to remain calm. But there’s this track playing inside my head. 🎶I’m so excited. And I just can’t hide it! I’m about to lose control and I think I like it!🎶

Anywho, I can't wait for my precious cargo to go already so it can arrive already! Or I can wait. But I sure don't wait to. I'm here in this moment waiting to exhale. Family, I feel like throwing a “waiting to exhale” party as I await the shipment of my books.

Let’s come together in a collective prayer (for real now PRAY!) that these books would ARRIVE already!

Why am I excitedly anticipating this journal? Because I TRULY KNOW it’s going to change lives.

I can CONFIDENTLY say as you release your fears, worries and offenses onto the pages of this journal, the tears may flow. Let them. Tears aren’t terrorists. They are therapeutic. Let them flow. And let the healing begin. And what better time than NOW to release your faith to tackle the fears and anxieties that have been weighing you down.

We are walking into a cleansing, refreshing season of letting go, releasing, and shedding this fall season. That’s not just about what’s happening outside your home. It's also a reflection of what can be happening inside you as well. Perhaps shedding some friends, some mindsets, some workplace toxicity, some . . . And it's shedding season.

I suspect the words you will leave in this journal will be akin to shedding pounds of resentment, shame, bitterness, guilt or . . . . This journal is not just a journal. It is THE place you can begin to use to LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT! (Normally when I see this “not just a” I think AI. NOT! This is all super sonic Dr. Mattox thoughts and writing!🥳)

You ready?

Check this! Begin to pray for an accountability partner that will check in with you and ensure you TOOK 5! Consider someone fun that encorages you, likes you, and is invested in seeing you succeed. Who knows! You may feel led to gift them a journal. Why? Healing is so much more fun when you can do it together!

I can’t wait for you to get your hands on Take 5! Pathway to Peace: A 40-Day Journaling Experience. I just love how it FEELS in my hand.

Stay tuned. Shipping out THIS month!

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04/10/2025

On the line talking to my friends about our NEXT EVENT at
Vibe and Vision Content Studio! Stay tuned! We have IDEAS!

Got something coming up? It’s THE spot for an intimate high energy event with LOTS of hype! Merica Profit will promote your event better than you!

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02/10/2025

Let’s Talk About Love, Therapy, and Choosing Wisely

Weep with those who weep. Rejoice with those who rejoice. And above all, begin choosing healthy.

There is a night-and-day difference in relationships when God is at the center and when a therapist has been invited into the journey. Healing hearts build healthy homes.

So, hear me clearly: do NOT—even with all the butterflies in your stomach—marry someone who refuses therapy or rejects wise counsel. That unwillingness is not strength; it’s stubbornness. And stubbornness left unchecked can lead to destruction.

A man (or woman) who won’t sit in therapy with you is showing you right now that:

They may avoid accountability.

They may try to make you the problem when storms come.

They may even turn your children against you, all while convincing you it’s your fault.

That is not love. That is bo***ge.

But there’s hope—because you can choose differently. Celebrate yourself. Celebrate your progress. Surround yourself with friends who clap loudly when you win and who don’t shrink when it’s their turn to shine.

This year has been a divine reset for many of us. And I declare: the relationships WE build from here on will be rooted in health, joy, and mutual celebration. No more pouring gasoline on your self-esteem so others can feel bigger and better. No more calling toxicity “normal” and ignoring the red flags of refusal to acknowledge anything that is important to you.

Choose love that lifts. Choose connection that heals. Choose relationships that reflect God’s best for you.

Because you, dear one, are worth it. 💛 Premarital counseling done RIGHT will help you take those rose colored glasses off and talk money, children, relatives, etc! Don’t let that ticking clock morph into a ticking time bomb bc you’re feeling desperate and inpatient.

02/10/2025

Family!

I appreciate you! I told you that I wanted to donate up to 150 copies of my book to victims of violence. And for EVERY order placed courtesy of domestic violence awareness month, I would donate a copy to Center for Healing Hearts & Spirits (a center that is doing the extraordinary with pennies.)And You all rose to the occassion!!!! Thank you!

As of this morning, you have already made it possible for me to donate FIFTEEN copies. Wow! I have a 135 more to go to go. But we’re off and running and Ms. Raynor couldn’t be prouder! I can't wait to give her the list of names of those who have made this possible.

This month we are SOCKING IT TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE by donating socks, books, and CASH to Center for Healing Hearts & Spirits! Thank YOU for supporting this worthy cause and me as I support those being serviced!

Sooo very thankful and most especially proud of you!

01/10/2025

Forty days is the bridge between who you are and who you’re becoming. When you commit to journaling for 40 days, you’re not just writing—you’re creating a rhythm that's long enough to move beyond surface reflection into real change. Yet, it's short enough to feel doable.

When you're trying to go from this to THAT but you don't have the strategy yet, Invest in Take 5! Pathway to Peace: A 40-day journaling experience. Think of it as a spirit filled coffee break with the lover of your soul. Don't use it as a time to pray and say what you want and run out. Sit down, pray, and a linger a while. Tune in. Listen and receive a peace upload, strategy download into your spirit.

By the end of the 40 days, you’ll likely see patterns, shifts, and a new way of thinking that didn’t exist before. You in?

Side Note: Let's sock it to domestic violence! For every book sold between October 1st-31st and those books sold on September 27th (during my launch), I will donate a book and a pair of socks to the Center for Healing Hearts & Spirits during domestic awareness month in YOUR name. And if you don't want the book, but you want to donate socks, donate them directly to Centers for Healing Hearts & Spirits. Call 501-372-3800 or go https://www.hhscenter.org/ to donate and tell 'em I sent you. (Look for the orange donate button on the right or the how can I help button.)

My personal goal is to donate 150 books to the center on my birthday in November and load them up with socks. If you can't buy a book, buy some socks and share the link and help me EXCEED that goal! Ms. Joyce Raynor and her crew are doing some amazing work over there in her part of the world! (To be counted in that number, you have to buy from my website www.drrhondamattox.org.)

https://www.drrhondamattox.org/product-page/take-5-pathway-to-peace-a-40-dayjournal-experience-1?fbclid=IwY2xjawNKSeZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFobW5IVm5LV216WHd3ZDl5AR5OH_IaWFVx-5ra5KAnxH4DDk9VeXeIHBRXfFQaZYVfIhJ4obyPKFcey8fPNA_aem_2abCadItTmQh_zYvXciyMA

Take 5! Pathway to Peace is just what the doctor ordered to break free from the grip of anxiety and reclaim your calm, clarity, and confidence in your daily life with just five minutes a day.

01/10/2025

Today I woke up with a patient on my heart—one I haven’t seen since last year at her funeral. I know we aren't supposed to have favorite patients. But she definitely made the top FIVE. And she was by far the most unlikely candidate. She was one of the first patients I began working with right out of residency. That's important because when she first started seeing me, she made it a point to tell me that she didn't like me and was only seeing me because her P*P insisted. I recall that on our first meeting, she spoke so loudly that my nurses kept peaking in to make sure I was okay.

By the time I left that facility, she was ready to follow me anyway including DC and Calif to be my patient. And while I was in AR, she used to drive 2.5 hrs one way just to see me. She went from not wanting to see me to literally following me f to whatever practice I was in until she moved out of state. WE cried when she told me she was moving. It was a good move but it was a painful. Her case was so complicated that I was big worried about her.

All week she’s been crossing my mind. And then I realized—today marks the one-year anniversary of learning about her death. Something in me wanted to reach out to her husband and simply say, “I remember.” I picked up the phone and dialed his number but I hung up. I wanted to but . . . professional boundaries. In the end, I chose to acknowledge it quietly to the person who had first shared the news with me.

Grief has no expiration date. Memory has a way of pulling at us in unexpected moments. As a psychiatrist, I know this. As a believer, I know it’s also the Spirit nudging me to pause, to light a candle in her honor, to whisper her name back to God who never forgets.

So this post is for her. May her memory be a blessing. May her family know peace. And may we all hold space for the space of remembering.