Fact and Focus Question of the week

06/15/2025

You are a Garden. You would not throw trash in your garden. Your garden, you, need nourishment, tending to, care, appreciation, and more.
Let’s honor and Admire you Today! 🌸🌺🌻🌷🌼
❤️ 💚

Call to Action👇

Send me a message for Complimentary Life Giving Questions for Journaling, pondering, and processing alone or with peers.

05/23/2025

Time to Detox. Release. Regroup. Breathe…

05/13/2025

Only 1 Orange /day = Improved Mental Health!

Can a bright citrus fruit increase your mood?

Study:
> 100,000 women consuming 1 orange /day compared to those who ate little to no citrus & validated by an independent cohort of men.

==>

20% lowered risk of depression

-Eating other fruits like apples & bananas showed abundance of F. prausnitzii, a beneficial gut bacterium previously linked to lower levels of inflammation & improve gut health
-People w/depression tend to have a lower abundance of it
- F. prausnitzii influences the production of feel-good neurotransmitters - Serotonin & Dopamine

-70% of people w/ depression do not fully respond to medications.

Who would have thought that nature has the resources & answers to our mental health needs??

Send a message to learn more

05/05/2025

Beauty & Power are Within YOU

I Encourage & Promote You to …

Face what you find fearfully inviting
Chase what makes you feel alive without avoiding
As you Go,
Grabble for your Grounding
Fight for your Footing,
Stabilize through Standing
Rest in the Waves
Surrender as your Sailing
Praise and your Playing
Play as your praising
Balance as your Balling
Be as you are Braving
Come when you are Called
Love as you are Loving
Repeat what’s worth remembering
Wonder as Walk
Skip as you Stroll
Stroll as you Scroll
Look Up

04/26/2025

Love People. Not Labels.
Love this. I had to share🩵🫶🏻💖

❤️ ☮️

04/20/2025

Now.
Yes. This moment is a chance to look at the world from another angle. Next time you feel stuck…
Turn around
Look upside down
Spin around
Get a New Perspective

🫶🏻IYT
Www.itsyourtherapy.com

❤️ ❤️

03/15/2025

FUN Facts on critical SMALL TALK:

55% of relationships both PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL are started by casual conversations and casual interactions
-University of Oxford study

80% of BUSINESS relationships are started through small talk
-Harvard business review

03/13/2025

When You are Seeking Reassurance from Others, Try this Sentence Stem:

What I need to hear from you is...(then answer in your own voice).

03/12/2025

The Truth about Growth:

Growth=the process of increasing

The negative feelings or pain you feel in growing is the part of you still holding on to the past.

It’s the story we don’t want to Let Go.
The belief in our biology that the old is better and will keep us alive.
After all we have years of evidence!

Creating new evidence is part of your New Reality!

Now is Not the time to give up.
Now is the time to Live.🖖🏻
To Live is to Grow.
Now is the time to Grow🌷

To Your Growth💜

03/05/2025

Oxytocin - "Love Hormone"
-neurotransmitter released in response to pleasurable activities, touch, & sensory stimulation.

Activities that increase Oxytocin:
1. Labor & breastfeeding
2. High-intensity exercise (i.e. martial arts training)
3. Music (i.e. singing in a group)
4. Touch (i.e. cuddling, hugging, massaging, or stroking the skin)
5. Laughter (i.e. watching comedy)
6. Active listening (i.e. living someone your full attention)
7. Mindfulness meditation (Can activate the HPA-axis)
8. Other sensory stimulation

Resources:
-https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4290532/ #:~:text=Oxytocin%20is%20released%20in%20response,the%20skin%20will%20be%20highlighted.
-https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/oxytocin
-https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-to-know-about-oxytocin

Oxytocin, a hypothalamic nonapeptide, is linked to increased levels of social interaction, well-being and anti-stress effects. The effects of oxytocin that is released by sensory stimulation during different kinds of interactive behaviors are often ...

03/03/2025

Fun Fact for the Drug that helps decrease severe ANXIETY

Klonopin (Clonazepam)
- Half-life:
~ 30-40 hrs
-To be complete eliminated :
~ 5-7 half-lives; 150-280 hrs, 6- 12 days

According to recent studies
- 30.6M adults use benzodiazepines, like Klonopin
- ~ 17% of these individuals develop a substance abuse disorder

Sources:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/clonazepam-oral-route/description/drg-20072102
https://www.thehopehouse.com/how-long-do-drugs-stay-in-your-system/klonopin/ #:~:text=Klonopin%20has%20a%20long%20elimination,drug%20to%20be%20completely%20eliminated.

Resources:
https://www.nami.org/

NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

02/20/2025

Sometimes we are loved. Sometimes we are unloved. Sometimes we show up as our best selves and sometimes we barely show up. We can be loved and not show up. We can show up and not be loved. Regardless of the state/situation/outcome/effort You Can ASK: does judging myself for this serve me? Is how I am perceiving this helpful?