Be Ye Renewed: Mental Health & Pastoral Counseling

re·new
rəˈn(y)o͞o/
[verb] 🧠
1. To begin or try again especially with more force or enthusiasm.
2. To make (something) new, fresh, or strong again.
3. To restore or replenish.

✨ Get to know about my boutique therapy practice, business philosophy, and additional professional services I am delighted to start offering Q2 of 2025 and beyond!

Link in Bio for more deets. Let’s talk! 📱 📧 🫶🏾

👀👀👀Something’s cooking in the therapeutic kitchen! Remember that when women support and join forces with other women, incredible things happen! ✨

📸:c/o 🫶🏾

Stay tuned as Be Ye Renewed Counseling enters its next Era! ✨

💭What might healthcare be like if instead of focusing on treating sickness and disease, it focused primarily on preventing both physical and mental illnesses across the population as a whole?…

🧘🏾‍♀️ Health is best defined as the soundness of mind, body, and spirit, health is not simply the absence of disease.

🧠 Sadly, persons struggling with mental health disorders generally receive less preventative healthcare, face difficulties accessing quality care, and have increased morbidity as an outcome of illness (Drugs, Roseniheck, Desai, & Berlin, 2002).

💭 Utilization of a wellness model is vital in mental health counseling because it focuses on striving for optimal functioning. Clinicians can work alongside clients in improving their lifestyle and changing habits for wellness.

🧠Perhaps the keys to adding more life to our years and years to our lives involves consideration of each dimension of wellness including spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and social factors.

🚴🏼‍♀️Self care, lifestyle choices, relationships can combat disease, dysfunctional living and premature death.

🙏🏾I look forward to further exploring such topics as they relate to mental health counseling and emotional wellness more in 2025, stay tuned! 🙋🏾‍♀️

✨ Part of my 2024 year-in-review.

One of THE best highlights was attending the Conference with my colleagues and meeting one of my television faves, the lovely

✨ So grateful for this moment in time and happy to witness the many ways in which Monique is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. 🫶🏾

✨Support 🌻

✨As a result of the overwhelming response within just a few short days, it is with the deepest gratitude I wish to thank ALL of the Black women throughout the City of Philadelphia for expressing profound excitement and interest in my dissertation research.
 
✨I am humbled by the immense response, and I sincerely thank all of those who reposted and shared my recruitment flyer.

✨Please accept this post as an acknowledgement to every woman who has promptly responded thus far. Inquiries, emails, and survey responses are now under review. More information pertaining to the next phase of the participant recruitment process will be forthcoming very soon.
 
 
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Gratefully,
Chimère
Doctoral Candidate + Principal Investigator

“VISIBILITY - You’ve got to find a way to make people know you’re there.”
― Nikki Giovanni 🕊️ ✍🏾

📣Calling on Black + Single Ladies! 📣

✨As a Doctoral Candidate👩🏾‍🏫 at Eastern University in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, I am conducting a study that will explore specific dynamics that contribute to singleness among Black women.

✨My research study will examine the shared experiences among millennial age, college educated, Black women, who have not yet found “the one,” despite having the desire to marry.

✨Would you (or someone you know) consider adding your story to the research in this critically important area? I am excited to explore this phenomenon! Please refer to the flyer below and/or message me for more details.

Thank you & Be Well,
Chimere 🙋🏾‍♀️

Happy Holidays Everyone!

👩🏾‍💻As a Doctoral Candidate at Eastern University in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, I am conducting a study that will explore specific dynamics that contribute to singleness among Black women.

👩🏾‍🏫My research study will examine the shared experiences among millennial age, college educated, Black women, who have not yet found “the one,” despite having the desire to marry.

🙋🏾‍♀️Would you (or someone you know) consider adding your story to the research in this critically important area? Please refer to the flyer below and/or message me for more details.

Thank you & Be Well,
Chimère

“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough’”—Anna Quindlen

💭 Midweek Reminder…
If you are reading this…

🌸 YOU

🌸ARE

🌸ENOUGH!

What is the healthiest tea? The No. 1 pick, according to a dietitian

This evening my two segments with Marc Lamont Hill of TheGrio shed light on holiday stress, seasonal affective disorder, in addition to suicidal prevention and warning signs! 📺🧠

RIP Stephen ’tWitch’ Boss.

Mental Health is TOTAL health! (988 = Su***de Crisis & Lifeline)
Check on & love on your family and friends! 🙏🏾

***dePrevention ***deAwareness

the Grio on Instagram: "Licensed professional counselor, Chimere G. Holmes, gives us warning signs to look out for in those who may be dealing with suicidal thoughts. #Griofam, tune into The Grio with @marclamonthill weeknights at 7 pm ET on The... the Grio shared a post on Instagram: "Licensed professional counselor, Chimere G. Holmes, gives us warning signs to look out for in those who may be dealing with suicidal thoughts. , tune into The Grio with weeknights at 7 pm ET on The Grio's cable network.". Follow their acc...

Cannot wait until this book 📚 is released Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT

Taking responsibility is a cornerstone of healthy relationships, and being able to take responsibility for your part is an important first step. It’s important to be honest with yourself about what you’re bringing to the table when it comes to chronic disconnection and conflict. When you can get clear on the things you need to shift, you also protect yourself from becoming overly responsible. Your contribution to the relationship is no longer nebulous; it’s clear.

To learn more about how to take responsibility for your part without overextending read my book I Want This To Work.