JR Reid

Therapist-in-Training, Author, War survivor & Researcher helping young adults find hope.
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I’m J.R. I’m becoming a therapist at 34 to make changing our behavior more accessible. I changed my life; I’ve seen others change theirs, and I believe in my bones that I can help change yours.

I’m here to sit with others in their darkest moments to help find the way out

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Suffering brings a depth of character all the books in the world cannot offer.

People who haven’t seen suffering will disagree.

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What kind of world are you going to be living in a year of a vicious cycle of self-care and positive self talk? What does that type of future mean to you?

#socialworkcommunity #mentalhealth #selfworth #personalgrowth #healingjourney

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You can wake up tomorrow and be someone else.

Change clothes, habits, body composition, preferences, homes, friends, COUNTRIES.

There’s a version of you that wants to live.

Don’t give up. 🫂💚

#socialwork #si #prevention

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I’ve danced with death several times in my life.

1. I was a miscarriage that re-attached to the uterine wall.
2. I nearly drowned at 5 and 12.
3. I nearly ended it at 20.
4. I got hit with IDF at 29.

Here’s a superpower no one tells you about:

You can begin again.

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Maybe you need to stop putting so much pressure on yourself today, and do something that makes your soul, soar. 🐦‍🔥

#mentalhealth

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If you’re a deeply feeling person there will be a lot of times that you just … don’t feel like it.

Planning, and sticking to the plan, is critical 💚

#socialwork #personalgrowth

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If you hang out with me long enough, I’ll gaslight you into believing in yourself.

You.

Are Unstoppable.

🫂💚

#MotivationalTweets

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Empaths like us change can struggle with mood changes. Sometimes, we tap into someone’s hurt, suffering, sadness, or apathy within just a few words or facial expressions.

We have to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances. 🫂💚

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Here's a life hack for you: do you want to enjoy every single thing you try a little less? Put pressure on it.

#personalgrowth

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True cognitive and psychological expansion requires friction, but our modern environments are designed to optimize for seamlessness and immediate relief.

#mentalhealth

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I just watched my first IFS session with Dr. Schwartz at the Boston Trauma conference.

I don’t think I’ll ever be the same. I don’t have the words.

#bostontraumaconference2026

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Sometimes my heart hurts for people who never see who they could be.

Anyone who has truly changed sees it. They’re already dead, under the skin.

It’s heavy as fûcķ.

[JR Reid @JRFindsMeaning]

But in pre-colonial traditions, community wasn't a closed cohort with an expiration date. It was an intergenerational, lifelong commitment to mutual aid.

#deconstruction #culturalerasure

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The loudest armor often hides the deepest fracture.

#MentalWellness

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When you’re feeling out of touch with yourself, we have to recognize these moments.
Often those signals are the mind’s discrepancy between what you said and what you meant — and that feels at odds with who you know yourself to be.

Be honest yourself #mentalhealth

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We have traded the richness of personal fate for the safety of a clinical label. When we turn a diagnosis into a foundation of our identity, we build a house on a foundation on sand.

What’s wrong with you is not the author of your existence. #mentalhealth

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If you don’t celebrate yourself, no one will. Take some time, think on something that you wanted really bad, and made it happen. Savor the way that it made you feel.

You can feel that way again 🫂💚

#socialwork #mentalhealth #selfworth #personalgrowth #healingjourney

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Once you get upset, you have already created the emotions.

Now you have to choose: will you act on them, or be acted on by them?

When we’ve yet to master our emotions, we feel held hostage to them. 💚🫂

#emotionalintelligence

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Does the person you're speaking to deserve your words? Do you know that your words have value? Do you know that the energy that it takes you to compose your response is worth something, that not everyone deserves?
2026 is about protecting your energy.
#mentalhealth #selfworth