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KD Holmes, MS, LPC & Tyler LaFleur RN, BSN, CPT, CEP, CFMP, MLAS: Sep 1, 2025 1:35:05 PM
Conventionally, most people understand how the body operates: the brain acts as the central processor, generating commands that travel through the nervous system to move muscles or signal glands to release hormones. This process highlights the mind...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Aug 5, 2025 8:33:19 PM
If you’ve ever had EMDR therapy and felt the strange relief of something shifting inside you-without having to walk back through every painful...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jul 21, 2025 7:36:38 PM
There’s a kind of love that doesn’t bloom gently-it twists in your chest, tight and unrelenting. It’s not love’s absence that hurts, but the constant...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jul 21, 2025 7:25:59 PM
Do you often think or feel something’s off." not dangerous, not dirty-just... wrong. The book isn’t crooked, but it isn’t straight enough. The...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jun 12, 2025 8:20:57 AM
There’s a kind of fear that hides in the ordinary. A doorknob. A grocery cart. The memory of a word. Contamination OCD is not about being tidy-it’s...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jun 12, 2025 8:07:45 AM
There’s a particular pain that comes not from sin itself, but from the fear of it. A weariness that settles into the bones, not from wrongdoing, but...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Jun 5, 2025 8:24:32 AM
Some fears arrive like thunderstorms-loud, visible, and unmistakable. Others creep in quietly, like fog-unwelcome, disorienting, and hard to explain....
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: May 31, 2025 2:06:35 PM
There is a particular kind of suffering that lives within people with POCD-a heavy, choking, and insessient nagging of what ifs. If these sufferers...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Nov 29, 2024 3:00:53 PM
After 48 years and countless therapists, I’ve begun to challenge many of the traditional narratives surrounding mental health. Therapy often starts...
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KD HOLMES, LPC, EMDR CERTIFIED, BTTI TRAINED: Mar 20, 2024 8:02:54 AM
In today’s fast-paced and often unrelenting world-where success is measured by tangible achievements and milestones-it’s essential to center an...
