Healing & Refuge Centre

Just stopping in to say hello 👋🏾 and to ask you, “how are you doing?” Sometimes we can be so busy “doing” that we have no idea or any insight into how we’re really doing. Stop 🛑 and pause long enough to check in with both yourself and others.

Here’s my check in…😇

As for me, it’s been a challenging three years to say the least but I, LaMonica, am still here. I am well. It’s not because everything is perfect but because I trust that all things are working together for my ultimate good.💚

Sooo… if you can see this say hello with a 👋🏾 and if you’re up to checking in let me know how you’re doing. I really want to know.

Blessings, LOVE & favor

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Increasing your seretonin levels will help you to fight off and help you to fight through depression. I have been sensing a heavy spirit of depression this last week or so in my spirit. It’s plaguing and it’s heavy! As a Psychotherapist, I am also working with at least twenty people a week, currently who’s dealing with depression on some level. You’ll depression is real and it can be debilitating! However, you can make what some of us Therapist call a “Mood Independent Choice” to do something without your moods approval. One way to do that is to get moving! Research shows us that some form of activity will help to decrease depression. I know it’s hard but get moving. Go for a walk, go exercise, clean 🧼 out a closet, declutter. Do something. You can even take a nice soothing bath 🛀 or shower. The point is to move. Be gentle with yourself, especially your heart but move.

I am praying for you today and I prophesy that you shall LIVE and not die! You will get through this holiday season! That lurking spirit of su***de is annihilated in Jesus name! You’re going to LIVE!!!

LIVE recording is NOW available!!! 💃🏾

I feel tremendously blessed to have been able to sit with such amazing Women as I hosted this past Friday night! I had so much fun operating in purpose!!! Thank you Lord and thank you to each and everyone of you who decided to connect and Lounge with me! I am honored to have been trusted with your vulnerability. Many have regrettably expressed missing it for various reasons and you were definitely missed. No need to fret any longer though! I’ve decided to make the replay available for a steal! It’s another gift 🎁 from me to you! So, just for 7 buckaroos 💵 you can now get the replay until Friday! 🎊 Men!!! If you want to further advanced healing in the life of your Lady or a Lady that you care about invest in their healing and pick up the replay for them. It really is the gift that keep on giving!

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Happy health Monday

with me! 🔊 Ladies!!! Where’s my Ladies?!?!? Where you’ll at?!?!?

I am personally inviting you to come and lounge with me this Friday, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. CST! Let’s chat all things relationships! I want to talk to you’ll! This is for singles, engaged, married, separated and divorced! Come on errrybody!😇 There’s a clarion call for the Ladies and it’s time out for the dumb and the numb! That means doing and accepting dumb stuff and having your heart repeatedly broken so much that you’re now numb! We’ll never reach our God given destinies or fulfill our God given assignments dumb or numb! Although I am multi credentialed with over twenty years as a Qualified Mental Health Provider (Psychotherapist) it’s not my credentials, certificates or licensures that fully qualify me to speak to you and over you but it’s my pain that’s now turned into my gain! I am determined to continue to GROW and GLO and I want to chat wit’ cha’! We have got too much work to do that can’t get done because of pain and dysfunctional cycles in our lives and in the lives of those closest to us that we’ve allowed to hinder us! It’s time to heal as we get real! Meet me this Friday and lounge with me virtually! Invite a friend! This pour is my LOVE seed to you! You’re on the heart of our Heavenly Father!💚

Oh! It’s Monday… so there you go!🤣 This message will definitely suffice! Make your healing a priority or you’ll never heal!💚

*Details and registration information are on the flyer*

Blessings to you all… each and everyone of you!!!

I just want to sincerely THANK those of you that I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. THANK YOU for allowing me to sit with you in your pain during some of the most difficult times in your life. It’s an absolute honor to serve in this capacity as a CALLED spirit filled Psychotherapist. If I’ve never had the opportunity to work with you just know that my heart is compassionate and I pray for the healing, emotional and mental well being of others on a consistent basis, it’s one of my mandates.

Although I am not totally open to accept new clients at this time, I do review each request on a case by case basis and if my schedule just happens to open up at the time of the review and I can accept a new client I will. I just did and the excellent referral that she came with blessed my heart, soul and spirit! I am truly humbled and so grateful!💗

If you’ve ever referred anyone to me and/or you’re thinking of referring anyone to me THANK YOU!!!💗💗

Home Welcome to the Healing & Refuge Centre’, where our mission is to bring healing, restoration, inspiration and impartation to others. We understand that people need to walk through their own individualized and unique healing process. We also comprehend the importance of helping others facilitate t....

Sometimes you just NEED to sit with you and your own thoughts. 💗

Talk Tip: September is su***de prevention month and I didn’t want to let this month get away from us without bringing this to our awareness. Su***de is real and unfortunately it happens. Take a look at this diagram and be aware of the signs. If you or someone you know is exhibiting these signs please don’t delay in reaching out and getting help.💚 Getting help from SAFE QUALIFIED Mental Health Providers is okay!

Blessings to you all and I pray that you continue to learn how to take care of your mind!💚

Su***de Prevention Line: 1-800-273-TALK💚
Text:: 741741💚

The Healing & Refuge Centre will be closed until the week of May 17th 2021.

Many blessings and an abundance of HEALING to you!!!❤️

My hope for you is that you’ll prioritize YOU as you take better care of your Mental Health! Cheers 🥂 to better health💚💚

Yes, someone’s problems somewhere may be bigger than yours BUT yours matter too. Never dismiss your issues because you’re shamed into feeling like their of little to no importance. You matter and what you’re dealing with matters.💚

It’s Health Monday!!! Take care of your mind and your relationships during the Pandemic! Below👇🏾I share a few ways about how to do that. Have a blessed day!💚💚

Our relationships are important! Don't forget to care for yours during the pandemic. ❤️🖤💛

Thank you to our partners on this project! Women's Health Network of Kansas Healing & Refuge Centre Substance Abuse Center of Kansas The Caring Center Holland Pathways Guadalupe Clinic Miracles, Inc.

It’s Health Monday!!! 💚💚Happy Health Monday ya’ll!!!💚💚 It was an honor to be apart of this Mental Health Initiative with Partners of Wichita.

Take a moment to learn from LaMonica Williams, MSW, LSCSW (CEO and founder of Healing & Restoration Center) as she speaks about Relationships During the Pandemic.

“Relationships can be trying and challenging and sometimes they can be downright hard!” This can be especially true during a pandemic. LaMonica shares 3 tips to stay safe & healthy during a pandemic.

1. Get Help
2. Practice Good Self-Care
3. Practice Good Relationship Care

Relationships During The Pandemic LaMonica Williams, MSW, LSCSW Helps Us with great insight!

Happy Health Monday!!!💚💚

It’s Health Monday!!! ASK the QUESTION. 💚💚

As I became an experienced therapist, the below question became easier to ask. It’s so hard in the beginning. Sometimes we don’t just ask the question while the person is suffering inside. September is Su***de Awareness month, but let us never forget!

Others may not understand your pace in life but move at your own speed because you know what you need and you also know what the consequences are of not getting what you need. Self-care is about taking care of YOURSELF and you can’t expect others to do that for you. It’s your responsibility.💚💚

Mental Tip: Work hard PLAY HARDER!!!🙂 JOYABLE moments are essential, create them and savor them! 💚💚

Happy 😃 JOYOUS Health Monday!!! If you’re not careful you’ll use “healing is a process” as an excuse for self sabotaging behavior or as a crutch to be stagnant. Healing is a process BUT that isn’t the entire truth.♥️

My NEW system, SUCCESSFUL LOVE...FOR AMBITIOUS WOMEN TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM launches 🚀 tomorrow!!! Whoo Hoo!!!👏🏾 and I am ready to show up and serve the Women who took the leap of faith and left their excuses at the door. We all have our reasons as to why we can’t do something the challenge is really in discovering how we can do it!❤️ When healing is no longer an option that’s when we .♥️

If you’re interested in learning more about my program just let me know. In the meantime if you’re a Woman and you’re ready to work on you and your heart start by heading over to my FREE FB GROUP, SUCCESSFUL LOVE... FOR AMBITIOUS WOMEN and join😊. If it isn’t for you please share with another beautiful soul that could use a little extra support. Blessings, LOVE & FAVOR!

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Health Monday Sometimes we think 🤔 that we’re doing others a favor by not speaking up when we need to but we’re really only hurting ourselves and them. If you’re keeping quiet and allowing things to just fester in your heart it is bound to come up and out and most likely when you least expect it to. When our boundaries are crossed and we do nothing to rectify it we can breed resentment and there isn’t anything powerful about resentment. However, using your voice is very powerful. Don’t be mean, hateful or disrespectful but use your voice and set those boundaries with others. 🥰

Here’s your Mental Health Tip... PLEASE take care of YOU whatever that looks like.

I got up this morning and I attempted to keep my normal Monday regimen which usually consist of working out but both my body and mind was sending me a different message and it was disguised in fatigue, minor muscle aches and a lot on my mind. Rather than pushing myself past my feelings which are necessary at times I decided to stop and listen to what my body needed and came to the conclusion that I needed to rest my body and my mind. Today, I am currently working from my bed.😉. Funny thing is everything is just flowing from my mind while my body has a chance to rest a little more this morning. What is your body, mind, feelings or emotions telling you today? Whatever it is I am encouraging you to listen to it and honor it.

Happy Monday!💚💚

Health Tip: If you want to experience more JOY commit to being more intentional to do so. Set your mind now to see things from a new and fresh perspective while flushing out all negativity in your mind and in your life. Repeat this out loud... “I CHOOSE JOY” and then walk in it.

Blessings and LOVE!!!💚💚

Hey you’ll!!! I just opened up my FREE FB Group so if you know anyone who could benefit they are welcome to join including YOU!🙂

I help ambitious Women with successful careers heal their broken hearts after multiple failed relationships so they can FINALLY find TRUE LOVE that lights up their spirit (God’s Way)❤️.

The groups name is called SUCCESSFUL LOVE... FOR AMBITIOUS WOMEN. In the private group my heart is just to pour into the Women and help them heal.

The program is focused on healing.❤️

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Blessings, LOVE & FAVOR❤️

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Mental Health Monday!!! Is anyone else working on something NEW besides me? If you are pace yourself. I have been experiencing repeated delays and as you know that can be very frustrating. Soooooo...guess what I am getting ready to do? Call it a day on this particular project and go work out. So if things aren't going quite as you expect them to and there are things that are beyond your control pivot and do something different. Starring at closed doors never get them open.

Blessings and LOVE to you!!!💚💚

CHANGE is coming and it is starting with you! You may be hoping and wishing that someone else in your life would change so that you can start to do things differently and finally heal. Well... I have good news for you. You can change even when they won’t or don’t. Your healing isn’t contingent upon anyone else. All you need to heal is a decision to do so. 💚💚

Healing & Refuge Centre updated their website address.

Here’s another one.💚💚

Easy isn’t always necessarily the best course of action to get to your desired outcome. Let me explain, this morning as I was putting in a new trash bag in the powder room I was tempted to walk into an entirely different part of my home to get a trash bag that was in fact a grocery bag, that was more easily accessible instead of staying put in the powder room using a pretty pink 😉 freshly scented trash bag that was nicely tucked away in the very room that I was in. Why? Because the pretty pink 😉 nicely scented trash bag was put up neatly and had a tie around it and I didn’t want that extra step. The grocery bags were under the kitchen cabinet and I could just grab one.🤦🏾‍♀️ Pitiful? I know. Lol 😂!!! I immediately awakened to what was happening and thought how terrible is it when we opt out of best for sup par because we don’t want the extra steps. I then decided to untie the bag, pull out the roll of pretty pink 😉 trash bags, get one out, put the trash bags back in the bag, put the tie back on them and nicely put them back under the cabinet. Were there a few extra steps involved in choosing the pretty pink bags? Yes, but the payoff was rewarding.

Today while your making decisions choose the best and not necessarily the easiest. Slow down, be intentional and make the decision that you’ll be most happy with later.

Happy TERRIFIC Tuesday!💚💚

Mental Health Tip: When I woke up this morning I attempted to put on my pink 😉 slippers and immediately felt the discomfort of having them on the wrong foot. Instantly I put them on correctly and that is when a word hit my spirit that I wanted to share with you. Why is it when something don’t fit us we try to force it to fit? For instance, a job... relationship... financial investment... etc. Rather than listening to our gut acknowledging that this just doesn’t suit us we try to make what we know will never work deep down inside work. Don’t waste time trying to make a wrong right when you know without a shawdow of doubt that it just isn’t going to work. It was never meant to work and you know it but you just keep trying to make it work. Give it up and do the RIGHT thing that’s in your heart your heart to do. Maybe it isn’t as simple as putting your slippers on the right feet but whatever it is I pray that you have the courage to do it and the wisdom to execute it in LOVE. Blessings!!!💚💚

Good Stuff...💚💚

Codependency is something we begin learning in our earliest years. When we have parent figures who are disconnected from self, there will be blurred emotional boundaries.

Blurred emotional boundaries look like:
1. A parent sharing intimate information as if a child is a friend/peer
2. A parent spying/snooping
3. A parent telling a child to “toughen up” or to “not be so sensitive/dramatic/etc”
4. A parent communicating marital issues through children
5. A parent denying a child’s reality: “oh uncle mark is a great guy” or “I don’t know why you’re so upset, it wasn’t a big deal”

All of these behaviors are unconscious + unintentional, but as children these lack of boundaries translate into seeking self through others. We have low self worth + as adults, we look to other people to give us this sense of self worth.

Many people describe this as “social anxiety” which at its core is the fear of being seen or heard because at one time that meant shame.

Codependency conditioning carries a lot of shame because when other people are the source of our self worth, we end up on emotional roller coasters.

Do you see this pattern in your own life?

Monday Health Tip: Do anyone ever over think anything or is it just me? Say me if that’s you.🙂. If you have the tendency to overthink at times too I totally get it and I want to help you ease your mind some. First, take note that overthinking is a real thing. Second, recognize that you have the tendency to do it. Third, when you seem to be growing increasingly confused and agitated by your thoughts pertaining to the subject at hand decide to walk away and let it go. Lastly, when you’re in a calmer state of mind and spirit revisit it. You got this!!!💚💚

Here is a short clip from one of my Mentors, Valorie Burton, on self-care. Watch it and let me know your biggest takeaway and what you can do TODAY to take better care of YOU. Mine is rest. Today I will be intentional about resting and moving at a slower pace. What’s yours?

Have a HAPPY and PEACEFUL Sunday!💚💚

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