A space to reconnect with your inner wisdom

Reflections for deep feelers and thinkers

This blog offers a place to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or simply craving more balance, these reflections are here to support your inner wisdom and strengths.

Calm desk with journal, blue mug, and houseplants on a light wood table—symbolizing mindful reflection and a safe space to reconnect.

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These themes tend to surface often in counseling, in life, and in the quiet in-between moments.

  • Highly Sensitive People: For those who feel deeply and notice everything. These reflections support you in navigating life as an HSP with more clarity and care.

  • Parent Wounds: Gentle, honest writing about growing up with emotionally immature, unavailable, or unpredictable caregivers. And what healing looks like now.

  • Coping Skills: Grounding practices and nervous system tools for moments of overwhelm, shutdown, or emotional intensity.

  • Grief & Letting Go: Tender posts about loss, change, identity, and the quiet grief that often goes unnamed.

  • Boundaries: Insights into saying yes to yourself, holding limits with love, and navigating relationships with more self-trust.

  • Therapy & Counseling: Curious about what it’s like? These posts demystify the process and offer stories from inside the work of healing.

Grief & Letting Go Sara Gourley Grief & Letting Go Sara Gourley

Below the Surface

Trilliums are often the first flower to bloom after the snow melts, a quiet reminder that transformation is always happening, even when we can’t see it. The same is true in counseling—growth begins beneath the surface long before we recognize it. Change can feel slow, even invisible, but one day, something shifts. A new awareness emerges, and we realize we’ve been changing all along.

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