Author: Rita Lynn Berry

Rita Lynn Berry, EdS, LCMHC, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and the founder of NewVision Counseling and Consulting Services, PLLC. She is also the creator of the Journey to Me™ program and Mend n Muse Media™, where she shares tools and reflections that support healing, resilience, and self-love.

We All Need a Soft Landing: Faith, Favor, and Healing in Exhausting Times

Soft landing reflection graphic on faith, favor, and healing from Journey to Me blog

We are living in a time when so many are quietly carrying the weight of exhaustion — emotional, spiritual, and physical. In this gentle reflection, Rita Lynn Berry explores the need for soft landings: sacred spaces where rest is honored, healing is possible, and faith makes room for restoration.

Becoming Again: The Father’s Blessing

A beautiful, Black woman sits reflectively on a porch in warm natural light, holding a photo and looking off softly into the distance. Her expression is peaceful and contemplative, embodying the healing power of memory, fatherhood, and spiritual covering.

A reflection for Father’s Day week. Whether you were blessed by your father or still healing from his absence, this devotional reminds you: the Father’s blessing is still yours.

The Seeds You’ve Sown

A young Black woman in a flowing summer dress stands in a sunlit garden, holding a book to her chest with both hands. Surrounded by soft greenery and golden light, she appears peaceful and reflective — symbolizing spiritual growth and unseen transformation.

What you’ve sown is sacred — even if it’s not visible yet. This devotional honors the seeds you’ve planted and invites you to trust in the unseen growth of your becoming.

Strength in the Soft Places

Woman in a soft floral summer dress sitting quietly in a sunlit garden, holding a journal and gazing downward in reflection — conveying inner strength, softness, peace, and spiritual resilience.

True resilience is often found in life’s soft places. In today’s Journey to Me devotional, discover the strength of tenderness, trust, and God’s transforming grace.