Psychotherapy can help clarify your sense of self, goals, and world. Together we can work towards (re)defining and finding your happiness and peace.
Today offers an opportunity to work towards optimal mental health and well-being.
Let's get started.....
- Maranda
Maranda Randolph
,LCSW
Life can be exciting, confusing, overwhelming, joyous, and at other times simply put stressful. You may be experiencing a life transition, anxiety, trauma, grief from the death of a loved one or another form of loss, relationship difficulties, depression, or just feeling stuck and needing a change.
SUPPORT WOMEN
SCOTUS' forced pregnancy and NY gun rulings are a threat to our health care, our rights, our safety, and our freedom and is just the beginning. Don’t let this stand. Take ACTION.
VOTE in your local elections. ADVOCATE and add your voice to the fight for human rights. DONATE to help fund programs that help women and families.
#bansoffourbodies
Although abortion may be illegal in some states, you can still travel to states where you can receive a safe legal abortion. See links below for assistance and more information.
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/
https://www.iwrising.org/
BLACK MISSING PERSONS
If you have seen this person please contact DC Police Dept at 202.727.9099 or BAMFI at 877.97.BAMFI
For more information on black missing persons, please visit www.bamfi.org
MISSING YOUNG GIRL ALERT
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children issued a new lookout for Kushiyah Yehudah. Kushiyah was described as 4 feet, 6 inches tall and 75 pounds when she disappeared two years ago from Cohoes, NY. She is believed to be in the Cobb County area. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shared the most recent photo available of the 8-year-old (below).
Anyone with information on Kushiyah or her whereabouts is asked to call the Austell Police Department at 1-770-944-4331 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST.
HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
The eviction moratorium has been lifted leaving many people at significant risk of homelessness and/or losing their homes or property. Below are some federal and local programs that can provide resources and assistance.
Safe & Affordable Housing | Georgia Department of Community Affairs (ga.gov)
Help for renters: Coronavirus housing resources | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (consumerfinance.gov)
COVID-19: Resources for Homeowners | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
COVID-19: Resources for Renters | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
You can enroll in Marketplace health coverage until January 15th.
You can enroll anytime if you qualify for Special Enrollment, due to a life event like losing other coverage, getting married, moving, or having a baby.
Visit www.healthcare.gov for more details and to enroll
GIVE to HAITI
Haiti suffered a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that has devastated the country already reeling from a presidential assassination. Please consider donating to a charity to help the Haitian people. Please ensure that you research the charity and ensure it is reputable. Below are some links to articles and charities that are providing aid. Use your own discretion.
https://action.publicgood.com/campaign/652a7503-fe9f-44e5-95d8-964699cd2c23
https://www.coreresponse.org/
https://hopeforhaiti.com/
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
We have to reeducate ourselves and our children to understand that power and privilege doesn't always have to destroy and take -- it can be used to serve and build. And we have to re-educate ourselves to understand that, unequivocally, every human being has the right to walk through this life with their full humanity intact.
- Tarana Burke
The systemic racism that we see in our society is wrapped into everything from our environment to criminal justice to the application of justice, and the moment we try to say that these things are separate, we set ourselves up once again for the kind of protest and demonstrations we see now. But the extent to which we acknowledge that these are interwoven, through systemic racism, systemic inequities, and systemic injustice, then we can begin to start to address them.
- Stacey Abrams
THANK YOU CONGRESSMAN JOHN R LEWIS
FOR YOUR LOVE, GENEROSITY, LIFE AND SERVICE
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.”
– From his 2017 memoir, "Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America"
"Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part."
- John Lewis
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
- John Lewis
"Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn't know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen."
- John Lewis
"You are a light. You are a light. Never let anyone – any person or any force – dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant."
– From his 2017 memoir, "Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America"
"Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose."
- Rev. C. T. Vivian
"We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right."
-- Joseph Lowery
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Suicide Prevention Hotline:
Updates: Effective 7/16/2022, the new name is the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and new number is 988. The 800-273-8255 number will remain available to use indefinitely.
800-273-TALK (8255)
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Crisis Text Line:
Text Home to 741741
https://www.crisistextline.org/