NWA Healing Roots Counseling

ADHD Time, difficulty with time management, difficulty with routines and routine changes, motivation, and overstimulation can sound something like this 😵‍💫

Learning more about your fears and challenges and overlapping symptoms can be helpful in pointing to what tools can help. What works for some folks may be different than what works for you… and that’s okay 👍🏼 A therapist with with experience in working with neurodiverse traits can help — We are all learning this together..

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How to ruin an ADHDer’s entire day= The thing🕚 #adhd #comedy #neurodivergent

Healing is not linear. It's not just about managing symptoms—it's about growing in strength and capacity. There's a difference between "feeling better" and "becoming better or stronger."

When coping with stress, symptom management isn't the entire solution. As we heal, some of the boundaries and strategies that helped us at the start may no longer serve us—and that's okay! It means we're evolving, becoming more flexible, and learning new tools to build greater resilience.

𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠—𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣ ⁣ If you need a script, a boundary, or a self-care day just to make it through normal life stress… you’re not building mental health, you’re outsourcing it.⁣ ⁣ The mental health industry has convinced people that the goal is to feel better—not become better. And that’s why so many people are still in survival mode, even after therapy, self-work, and every coping tool under the sun.⁣ ⁣ Ask yourself:⁣ • Do you need distance from people to feel emotionally regulated?⁣ •Do you avoid situations that challenge you instead of learning to handle them?⁣ • Do you rely on external validation to confirm you’re doing the “right” thing?⁣ ⁣ That’s not growth. That’s dependence. And it’s why so many people feel stuck even after “doing the work.”⁣ ⁣ Healing isn’t about escaping stress—it’s about handling it.⁣ ⁣ What’s something people think is “helpful” for mental health but actually keeps them stuck?

A little humor, but more importantly-relatable for some folks with neurodivergent tendencies or diagnoses …
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For anyone else who needs to hear this… 🥰

💜 So true. 💜

Important Source: Trauma Rewired Episode: Healing Dissociation
https://illuminatedwithjennifer.libsyn.com/dissociation-2

Dissociation can seem like a bad word. Here is some information on dissociation, what activates this survival mechanism and what we can do to lessen the frequency and intensity of experiencing dissociation if it is distressing. A Spanish version coming up next... 💛

Be gentle, be kind… and if you can’t use gentle language, that’s okay, maybe try to be curious about it. Being kind means taking our guard down, and we may not be in a safe enough environment to do so, or we may be in a safe enough environment but parts of us don’t know it yet.

Un enfoque equilibrado para lidiar con la depresión implica tratarla desde diferentes perspectivas, como realizar cambios en el estilo de vida, buscar terapia, considerar la medicación (si es necesario) y apoyarse en redes de apoyo. Es importante recordar que la depresión no significa que haya algo mal contigo. Aunque la genética puede jugar un papel, también existen sistemas más amplios, como las presiones sociales, los factores ambientales y las circunstancias de la vida, disfuncion en la familia de origin, abuso, traumas de apego, que pueden hacer que algunas personas sean más vulnerables. Ya sea un diagnóstico, crónica o causada por una transición de vida, la depresión está influenciada por muchos factores, y siempre hay formas de cuidarse y manejar los síntomas de manera efectiva.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙 ¡Y no tienes que hacerlo a la perfección! Con una o dos áreas para comenzar 🙃

“Trauma is not a memory it is a reliving”

“Trauma no es una memoria, es revivir el pasado en el presente.”

Body Trauma Expert, Bessel van der Kolk, reveals the truth about what trauma feels like...

Emotional Isolation

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4N5IgjmsU3G81RnYaRtYSJ?si=QL9pwZ9nTWWYR1KBjZ4_hw&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A79wbOOdbQkwXuyatFmPI5S

Hay que mantenernos informados sobre nuestros derechos sin importar el estatus legal: indocumentados, temporal, etc…aquí hay algunos derechos clave.
¡Enlace a la fuente de Bogart arriba! Cuidense, mantengan la calma, si tienen preguntas siempre llamen a un abogado de inmigración de confianza. Bogart y Susan Duell son abogados de confianza. ¡Laura Ferner también ha sido un gran apoyo para nuestra comunidad en casos de inmigración! 💛💛💛💛💛