Growing Kind Minds, LLC

Growing Kind Minds, LLC Mentor for Therapists | Post Traumatic Growth Strategist | Psychotherapist | Coach

09/08/2026

Choose your own adventure.

I keep coming back to those words.

Because one of the greatest gifts we can give the people we lead is the freedom to choose theirs.

When someone opts into my community or my work, I want it to be because it feels aligned. Because there’s something there that supports the business, practice, and LIFE they actually want to build.

And when it no longer does?

I want them to feel just as free to opt out.

That can be hard as a leader.

When we care deeply about what we’ve built, it’s easy to make someone leaving mean something about us.

Was it not enough? Could I have done more? Why don’t they want to stay?

I believe in reflection. I believe in feedback. But I’ve also learned that not every transition requires us to turn someone else’s choice into a story about our worth.

People have seasons.

Needs change. Priorities change. Businesses change. WE change.

I don’t want to be everything to everyone. And I don’t need to create a space people want to stay in forever.

I want to create spaces that are authentic enough for people to know when the answer is YES — and safe enough for them to know when the answer has become not right now.

And when their adventure takes them somewhere else?

GO. I’m excited for you.

Because I’ve found that when people leave feeling empowered rather than guilty, something beautiful happens.

Sometimes they come back for a conversation. Sometimes for support. Sometimes for the community.

And sometimes they don’t.

But I hope they leave with more insight, more inspiration, more connection to themselves, and more permission to choose what’s next.

That, to me, is abundance in leadership.

Not: How do I get them to stay?

But: How do I create something worth choosing while honoring their freedom to choose again?

Build the table.
Pull out the chairs.
Welcome people wholeheartedly.

And never lock the door. ❤️ Xoxo V

09/04/2026

We talk a lot about building bigger businesses.

But bigger isn’t necessarily more abundant.

Maybe your version of abundance is more money.
Maybe it’s more time.
Maybe it’s creative freedom.
Maybe it’s working with fewer people, more deeply.
Maybe it’s being able to take a random Tuesday afternoon off without asking anyone for permission.

I don’t want to tell you what success should look like.

I want you to get really good at asking yourself what you actually want.

So before you make your next business goal:

What do you want your business to make possible in your life?

Tell me. I’m genuinely curious. 👇
Xoxo Dr V

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately:I want to have more fun along the way.Not when the business is where I want i...
09/04/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately:

I want to have more fun along the way.

Not when the business is where I want it to be.
Not when I’ve checked everything off the list.
Not when I’ve finally reached the next level.

Now.
In the middle of the building, the learning, the uncertainty, the decisions, the growth.

I’ve spent plenty of time believing that the next accomplishment would be the thing that made me feel more fulfilled.

And accomplishment matters to me. I love building things. I love having goals. I love challenging myself.
But I don’t want to sacrifice the experience of my life in pursuit of the life I’m creating.
So I’m making a different commitment.
I’m paying attention to what feels fun.
I’m saying yes to more spontaneity.
I’m making room for people I love.
I’m traveling.
I’m following ideas because they’re interesting, not because I know exactly where they’ll lead.
I’m letting myself be a little less serious about getting everything right.

And something interesting happens when you make that decision.
You become more creative.
More open & present.
You notice opportunities you might have missed when you were so focused on the destination.

And you remember that the process is not the price you pay for the outcome.
The process is your life.

So yes, I still have big goals.
I’m still growing.
I’m still building.
I’m still taking risks.

But I’m committed to having a really good time while I do it.

How about you?

With love & more fun,

Dr. V xo

I think we sometimes imagine passion as this thing that makes everything obvious.You find what you love, and suddenly yo...
09/01/2026

I think we sometimes imagine passion as this thing that makes everything obvious.
You find what you love, and suddenly you know exactly what to do.
But that’s not usually how it works.
The things we’re deeply passionate about often ask something of us.
A risk, decision, leap, a willingness to be seen trying something that might not work.

And this is especially true as therapists and practitioners. You can be deeply passionate about your work and still find yourself wondering whether you should take the next step, change your model, raise your rates, create something new, speak more publicly, or build the business you’ve actually been imagining.

The passion tells you what matters.
The risk asks whether you’re willing to act on it.
And you don’t need to eliminate the fear before you move.
You need to learn to distinguish fear from a genuine lack of alignment.
Because sometimes the discomfort you’re feeling isn’t a warning.
It’s the sensation of expanding beyond what is familiar.

I’ve taken plenty of risks that didn’t unfold exactly as I imagined.
But I’ve rarely regretted choosing to explore something that genuinely mattered to me.
Because even when the outcome surprises you, the act of following what you’re passionate about teaches you something.
About your courage, capacity, desires, values, your willingness to trust yourself.

So if there’s something you’ve been thinking about for a long time, something that keeps resurfacing, something you can’t quite let go of...
Maybe stop asking yourself, “What if it doesn’t work?”

Try asking:

“What might become possible if I give this a real chance?”

Your passions are trying to take you somewhere.
You don’t need to know exactly where, but you do have to be willing to move.

With love,

Dr. V xo

I want you to sit with this question:What would it take for you to fully trust your path?Not when everything falls into ...
08/31/2026

I want you to sit with this question:

What would it take for you to fully trust your path?

Not when everything falls into place.
Not when you get the answer you’ve been waiting for.
Not when the opportunity comes through, the relationship works out, the business takes off, or the plan finally makes sense.
Now.
Especially when it doesn’t feel like things are working in your favor.

Because it’s easy to trust life when you’re getting what you want.
The deeper practice is learning to trust yourself and your path when you’re disappointed, uncertain, confused, or standing in the middle of something you never would have chosen.
That doesn’t mean pretending everything is good.
It means leaving room for the possibility that you don’t have enough information yet to know what this means.

I’ve had things not work out that I was absolutely convinced needed to happen.
And I’ve had things happen that I couldn’t have imagined asking for.
Looking back, so many moments that felt like endings were redirects.

So many delays created space.
So many disappointments clarified what I actually wanted.
This is where faith becomes a practice.
Not blind optimism.
Not waiting around for the universe to do the work.
But continuing to participate in your life while trusting that you don’t need to understand the entire path to take the next step.

So ask yourself:

What would I do differently today if I genuinely believed my life was working out in my favor?

Would you be less afraid?
Would you stop forcing something?
Would you take the opportunity?
Would you rest?
Would you say no?
Would you become more available to what you can’t yet see?

You don’t have to know how the story ends to trust that you’re still becoming.
Maybe the invitation is not to figure it all out. Maybe it’s to trust yourself enough to keep going.

With love & trust,

Dr. V xo

08/28/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we make decisions.

We ask ourselves what makes sense. What’s responsible. What’s practical. What’s expected of us. What will work.

And those are important questions.

But somewhere along the way, I think a lot of us stopped asking:

What would bring me joy?

Not pleasure. Not avoidance. Not choosing the easiest path.

Joy.

The kind that makes you feel more alive. More like yourself. More connected to the life you actually want to be living.

I don’t think joy always needs to make the decision for us. Sometimes the thing we’re being called toward is hard, inconvenient, or uncomfortable.

But I do think joy is information.

And maybe when we’re standing between two choices, instead of only asking, “Which one is right?” we can also ask:

Which one expands me?
Which one feels alive?
Which one brings me closer to myself?
Where is the joy?

Joy doesn’t always get the final vote.

But it deserves a seat at the table. 🤍 Xoxo V

There comes a point where thinking about the life you want isn’t enough.You have to move.Take the meeting.Send the email...
08/28/2026

There comes a point where thinking about the life you want isn’t enough.

You have to move.
Take the meeting.
Send the email.
Make the investment.
Have the conversation.
Apply.
Say yes.
Say no.
Change the plan.
Take the trip.
Put yourself in the room.

Do the thing that makes your heart race a little.
Not because action guarantees a particular outcome.
It doesn’t.
But brave action changes you.

It moves you from imagining into participating.

And I really believe there is something powerful about showing life that you’re available for what you’re asking for.
You can want the new business, the relationship, the opportunity, the creative project, the next chapter...
But if it stays safely contained in your imagination, it remains a possibility you visit rather than a life you’re actively creating.

You don’t have to know exactly how it’s going to happen.
You don’t have to have the entire plan.
You just have to take the next honest step.

Let your actions become evidence of your belief.

Tell the universe you’re ready by being willing to meet your own desire halfway.
Stop letting it be just a dream.
Stop waiting until you feel completely ready.

Take the brave step. Then stay open to what happens next.

With love,

Dr. V xo

I think we sometimes misunderstand consistency.We decide that if we’ve found something that works, we have to keep doing...
08/27/2026

I think we sometimes misunderstand consistency.

We decide that if we’ve found something that works, we have to keep doing it exactly the same way forever.
Same routines.
Same goals.
Same boundaries.
Same strategies.
Same definition of success.

But you’re not the same person you were when you built that foundation.
So why would your foundation need to stay exactly the same?

You are allowed to pause and reassess.
You’re allowed to change the structure.
You’re allowed to decide that something that supported you before doesn’t support you anymore.
You’re allowed to rebuild from the ground up.

And none of that means you’ve been inconsistent.

Adapting is part of consistency.
Because the deeper commitment isn’t to a particular routine or strategy.
It’s to staying connected to what you need, what you value, and what you’re becoming.
Sometimes consistency looks like doing the thing you’ve committed to.
Sometimes it looks like changing the way you do it because you’ve changed.

The foundation isn’t sacred.
Your relationship with yourself is.

So if something no longer fits, you don’t have to force yourself to fit inside it just because it used to work.
Reset.
Rebuild.
Recalibrate.

You get to decide what your foundation needs to look like now.
And then, when you grow again, you get to change it again.

With love,

Dr. V xo

I want you to notice something.How often do you decide you want something and immediately start telling yourself why it’...
08/25/2026

I want you to notice something.
How often do you decide you want something and immediately start telling yourself why it’s going to be hard?

That will take forever.
I don’t have the time.
It will be so uncomfortable.
What if I can’t do it?
That sounds like a lot of work.

And before you’ve even started, you’ve created an entire story about how difficult it’s going to be.
Then you wonder why you feel resistance.

What if we tried something different?

What if you believed it could be easy?

Not effortless.
Not without change.
Not without stretching yourself.

There will be effort. There will be growth. There will be moments that challenge you and require you to become someone who can hold what you’re asking for.
But challenging doesn’t have to mean hard.
Growth can be uncomfortable without being painful.
Change can require effort without being a struggle.
And something being unfamiliar doesn’t mean it has to be difficult.

Sometimes we create unnecessary resistance by deciding in advance that the thing we want is going to be really, really hard.
And then we spend all of our energy preparing to struggle instead of preparing to receive.

So if there’s something you’ve been wanting for a long time, try this:

Stop asking, “How hard is this going to be?”

Ask:

“What if this gets to be easier than I imagined?”

You don’t need to know exactly how it’s going to happen.
You don’t need to minimize the work.
You simply need to stop making difficulty a requirement.
Let it be challenging.
Let it change you.
Let it require something from you.
And still believe it can be easy.

With love,

Dr. V xo

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