“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow

Post Hurricane Helene

I’ve noticed since the storm, I have felt more sensitive to the weather. I find myself wincing or feeling a bit off on really windy days. That rain makes me feel tired, sometimes a sunny cool day...

From Overwhelm to Wholeness: Learning to Process Your Emotions

So many of us want to feel better. We want to stop feeling so sad, tired, anxious, and depressed. As a therapist, my North Star is that a large part of how we feel better is by actually being with...

Getting To Know Claire

Hello! This is Claire Robinson, one of the newest counselors to join the Mending Roots team. It’s not often you get the chance to learn about your counselor/potential counselors, so I thought I’d...

What Does it Mean to be Masculine?

I ask myself this a lot, frankly. The tropes, archetypes, narratives, and socially informed values of what masculine is and isn't are, well, everywhere. Masculine identifying individuals face a...

You Can’t Think Yourself Out of Anxiety & Other Lessons Learned from the Body

Imagine a room. Inside this room there is everything you need. Only, it isn’t a room, because it has no walls, no floor, no ceiling. And it doesn’t exist only in your imagination- it is real and...

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING PRACTICE | ANTI-RACIST PRACTICE