Charlotte Laws-Therapist @ Prismatic Compassion 🧠🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🫱🏾‍🫲🏻🍉🇨🇦

#menopause #bodyimage #afabhealth #womenshealth #selfesteem #intimacy #weightinclusivity #healthateverysize #sexpositive #dietculture #perimenopause #therapist #therapistblogger

Let’s talk about why these changes happen, why diet culture advice often falls short, and how you can care for yourself with compassion, body acceptance, and connection. Your body deserves kindness at every stage. 💜

https://www.prismaticcompassion.com/blog/menopause-bodyimage-intimacy

Menopause and midlife bring real changes, inside and out. For women and AFAB folks, shifts in hormones can affect body image, self-confidence, and intimacy. If you’re feeling frustrated by weight gain or pressured by unrealistic beauty standards, you’re not alone.

When you’re Autistic, your social battery is dead ☠️ and you have to try and do small talk 😑

The struggle is real!

#autistic #actuallyautistic #mentalhealth #autisticadults #autisticwomen #audhd #audhder #prismaticcompassion #ontario #simcoemuskoka #smalltalk #autisticburnout #meme

This Pride, remember that a lot’s been happening to the LGBT2SQ+ community in countries where folx fought so hard to gain acceptance & human rights. Not to mention the many countries where being queer/trans is not accepted. So, please be an ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#pride #pridemonth #pride2025 #humanrights #lgbt

This is what neuro-affirming care can look like: cozying up under a weighted blanket, blocking out the world with noise-cancelling headphones, and letting music soothe an overwhelmed nervous system.

Link in bio ✨

#autistic #distinctanxiety

Many of my trans clients struggle with gender dysphoria/body image. When they get on hormones & have had gender-affirming surgeries (if wanted), they often say that now they feel like themselves, they’re no longer worried about body size. Can you relate?
#genderidentity #trans #bodyimage #bodysize

I hear some scary stories from new therapists trying to find the right fit practice-wise. Do your homework, compare places, ask questions, negotiate, and know that you bring a lot to the table, too! ✨💡

#therapist #newtherapist #knowyourworth #privatepractice #clinicalsupervision

I hope you let yourself rest, because:
-It’s a gentle rebellion against a world that measures us by our output.
-To pause is to reclaim your own pace, to remember you are worthy even in stillness.
-In your quiet moments, you honour your own limits and needs, no justification required #rest #mindful

This weekend, I hope you let yourself rest. It’s a gentle rebellion against a world obsessed with doing. Even in stillness, you are enough.

#restasresistance #selfcompassion #slowliving #mentalhealthmatters #gentlerebellion #worthyrest #ontariotherapy #rest #restisresistance

There are thousands of stories of medical gender bias & gaslighting. So many women/AFAB folks aren’t taken seriously, dismissed, & traumatized by medical professionals who’ve been trained in ways from the Stone Age. It needs to stop! #medicalgaslighting #georgiaoconnor #medicalgenderbias

Watching the story of Sally Gearhart and Harvey Milk reminded me how much courage it takes to stand up against hate. Pride wasn’t born out of celebration, but out of resistance and survival. We owe so much to those who came before us 🌈✨

#lgbtrightsarehumanrights #pride #2slgbtqia #noh8 #pride2025

I think that’s true in the public field, but it n private practice it’s changed a lot in recent years. Schools are churning people out but not being realistic on the time it might take to build a caseload. I also have young clients who can’t get a job in various fields now they are finished degrees.

Sometimes the biggest relief is just being understood; no long explanations, no need to mask, just someone who gets it.

You deserve spaces where you can just be you, and where your story makes sense without footnotes. 💜✨ #adhd #autistic #spoonie #audhd #therapy #neuroaffirming #therapistthoughts

I feel so bad for new grads. They come out of school, don’t hear back from job applications, due to ‘ghost jobs’ and because companies won’t hire without experience, but they can’t get experience without the education. BS.

#ghostjobs #newgrad #cantgetajob #catch22 #bs #mentalhealth #uncertainty

New guidelines urge doctors to “not underestimate the pain experienced by patients” during the IUD insertion procedure and outlined a range of pain management options. nyti.ms/4ktIOjf

Mantras to Challenge Perfectionism

✨I’m allowed to be human.
✨Progress, not perfection.
✨I am worthy, even when things aren’t perfect.
✨I’m doing the best I can, and that’s enough.
✨Small steps still lead to progress.

#mantras #perfectionism #mentalhealth #youareenough #selfcompassion

Motherhood is often painted as the ultimate life milestone, but the reality can feel far more complex and overwhelming, especially for undiagnosed or late-diagnosed ADHD and Autistic mothers.

Link 🔗 in bio!

#motherhood #newmother #adhdwomen #autisticwomen #audhd #postpartummentalhealth

Women/AFAB people are taught to put their needs last. They fear letting people down, so when it comes to others, their anxiety around this overrides executive functioning challenges and leads to over-achieving, because they don’t ever feel good enough.

#executivefunction #audhd #adhd #autistic

Mothers Day can be bittersweet for so many, for many reasons. Grief can be present as well as joy in terms of the present 🌟

#mothersday #grief #griefjourney #parentloss #mother #stepmother #mum #therapistthoughts #mentalhealth #ontario #simcoecounty

Bye Weight Watchers. Thanks for making massive profits at the cost of people’s psychological and physiological well-being because dieting doesn’t work. Won’t miss you.

#edtherapist #dietculture #weightwatchers #antidiet #weightinclusive #healthateverysize #millennial #millennialtherapist

Did you know green light therapy can help ADHDers, Autistic people, and migraine sufferers? 🌿✨

Whether it’s calming sensory overload, supporting emotional regulation, or reducing migraine intensity 🌳💚

✨ #greenlighttherapy #migrainerelief #ADHDer #Autistic

Your younger self knows how far you’ve come, and they’re so proud of you ✨

#youngerself #soproud #lookhowfaryouvecome #mentalhealth #selfhealingjourney #selfhealing #selfgrowth #selfgrowthjourney #personalgrowth #overcoming #lifechallenges #youareamazing #ontario #onlinetherapyworks

We must fight to save PBS and NPR.

Capitalistic, Neurotypical Workspaces are not positive places for Autistic peeps. We need to do better!

#Autistic #autismawareness #actuallyautistic #autisticadult #audhd #autisticburnout #capitalism #suicideprevention #dei #performative #neurotypical #ontario #mentalhealth #audhdtherapist

Part 2: Endometriosis & Immune Conditions: New Research 🧐

A new study has revealed strong links between endometriosis and immune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, coeliac disease, and osteoarthritis.

Have you experienced immune challenges alongside
endo?

#endometriosis #autoimmunity

Part 1: Endometriosis & Immune Conditions: New Research 🧐

A new study has revealed strong links between endometriosis and immune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, coeliac disease, and osteoarthritis.

Have you experienced immune challenges alongside
endo?

#endometriosis #autoimmunity

Part 2 🌟

Cognitive defusion is a powerful technique that help you create space between yourself and your inner critic 💭

#cognitivedefusion #mentalhealthmatters #neuroaffirmingcare #selfcompassion #therapisttips #coping #innercritic

Part 1 🌟

Cognitive defusion is a powerful technique that help you create space between yourself and your inner critic 💭

#cognitivedefusion #mentalhealthmatters #neuroaffirmingcare #selfcompassion #therapisttips #coping #innercritic

Tonight, I paid respects to my client, who passed away. I’ve experienced quite a lot of deaths in my life, and I’m finding that grief never gets easier regardless of how many losses, especially when you’re an empath 😔

#grief #griefandloss #griefawareness #griefsucks #empath #empathproblems #empath