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2020 AiN't CaNcElLeD

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

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.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayJanuary 31, 2020Faith, Mental Health, Black Mental Health, Therapy, James 1, Healing, Happy New Year Comment

I Think We All Need A Pep Talk

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

Short, Sweet, and to the Homies

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

Working While Black

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 Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

How you feel about your body offers an important lens through which you see and engage with the world.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayAugust 28, 2019Body, Fat, Sex, Sexuality, Food, Exercise, Vulnerable Comment

Worry Is As Worry Does: Making Peace with Anxiety

Worry Is As Worry Does: Making Peace with Anxiety

A little over a year ago and for the first time in my life, someone looked me in my eyes and told me that I was displaying signs of anxiety.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayJuly 25, 2019anxiety, self-compassion, tracking, sootheComment

An Ode to the Motherless

An Ode to the Motherless

Living on this side of life without my mother has provided me with the words I wish I could have heard and the love I still very much need.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayJune 24, 2019Loss, Grief, Mom, Motherless, Mama, EmpathyComment

Say It With Your Chest: “SOME” Of the ABCs of Communication

Say It With Your Chest: “SOME” Of the ABCs of Communication

Try listening to understand and speaking to be heard.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayMay 17, 2019Communication, Validation, Curiosity, Perception, Connection, HumanityComment

In Bloom

In Bloom

I feel more than confident that everything in my life has led me right here to this exact moment, my dear reader.

Letters from A TherapistTaylor PettwayApril 20, 2019Faith, Mental Health, Black Mental Health, Therapy, James 1, Healing Comment