2020 AiN't CaNcElLeD

“When the outside opens again, I’m throwing a New Year party. We’re starting this year from the top!”

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayJuly 1, 2020COVID-19, Quarantine, Mental Health, Pep Talk, Healing, Phoenix Clinic, ChicagoComment

The End of An Era

That’s what began this letter; the faith that I get the CHANCE to keep moving and doing a little bit more every day toward something that I’ve been called to do.

These Are My Confessions

If you’ve taken nothing else for our time together, do this in remembrance of our Savior: confess and forgive…over and over and over again.

Mindful MessagesTaylor PettwayJanuary 18, 2020Confession, Forgiveness, Truth, SinComment

I Think We All Need A Pep Talk

I imagine you powerful.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayDecember 31, 2019Pep Talk, Overflow, Faith, India, Happy New Year Comment

How to Win at Adulting

We mustn’t fear the stretching and pain of our lives nor skip the healing of knowing fully the lessons.

Mindful MessagesTaylor PettwayDecember 21, 2019Adulting, Adulthood, Transformation, Healing Comment

Silent Night: Grieving at the Holidays

If you are missing the ones you have lost this holiday season, keep remembering them. Let your memories light your laughter, and their love, wipe your tears. It is okay if your grief is coming home for the holidays, too.

Mindful MessagesTaylor PettwayNovember 20, 2019Grief, HolidaysComment

The How-To Manual

It's like finding yourself caught in the middle of a storm and realizing you actually do have a flashlight.

Mindful MessagesTaylor PettwayNovember 16, 2019Bible, Battle, traumaComment

Short, Sweet, and to the Homies

We spend so much of our time hoping our relationships are going to last forever just as they are. But, we change. Life changes us.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayOctober 26, 2019FriendshipComment

Right Before Our Eyes

Even when it looks still, like nothing is happening and every mistake has been made, what if you are what’s being changed?

Mindful MessagesTaylor PettwayOctober 19, 2019Change, Phenomenon, Witness Comments

Working While Black

. The standards of our society are whitened; health, beauty, status, power, privilege have all been crafted with me and those of rich melanin placed in the margins and in the borderlands. This is palpably evident in the workplace.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwaySeptember 27, 2019Job, Workplace, Working, Black Mental Health, Blackness, Whiteness, RacismComment

The Journey