Being generous brings joy and improves our overall health. However, our capacity to give can become depleted by stress, high expectations, and reduced feelings of empathy. In other words, we can feel so distressed that it becomes more difficult to connect with the...
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Open Heartedness and Compassion Fatigue
Compassion Fatigue can happen when our ability to empathize and stay open hearted takes on too much stress and trauma. Caring for and about others can deplete our mental, emotional, and physical resources, and compassion fatigue is what happens when those resources...
Emotional Support for the Holiday Season
November and December can be some of the most wonderful and most stressful months of the year. Family closeness, preparing for celebrations, and colder, darker days can all bring depression and anxiety as well as comfort and joy. HaLé has expanded our psychotherapy...
Emotional Healing that Starts in the Body
Emotional and physical healing are intertwined. Physical issues can have emotional consequences like depression or anxiety, and the opposite is also true. Strong emotions can become stored in the body, often as tension, pain, or dysfunction. When you receive bodywork...
Hygge is another word for WellBeing
Hygge (hoo-gah) is a Danish word that is hard to translate but easy to feel. It is a lifestyle dedicated to coziness in its broadest sense, where you are relaxed and feeling as at-home as possible. It is about being kind to yourself with small, delightful things like...
Healing in Community
from Janice Cathey & Jane HouseAre we evolving, moving toward our higher selves? Our practice is important. It is revolutionary. When we are in living practice, we are asked to turn inward and meet ourselves. We turn inward and we breathe. We ask, what more can...
Emotional Benefits of Yoga and Massage
Profound emotional release and calm can come through massage, bodywork, yoga, and gentle movement. Here is what some of our team members have to say about this process from their own experience and practices: I've heard it said that the body never lies, and also that...
The Magic Muscle: the Psoas
The psoas (pronounced so-az) is the one muscle that attaches the upper body to the lower body. It allows locomotion by allowing you to lift your legs to actually walk. It is the filet mignon of the body, the tenderloin, and is actually very delicate. It needs to be...
Behavioral Health for Mind, Body, and Spirit Care
from Janice Glasscock, LCSW Behavioral health care and mental health care focus on thought processes and emotions, on personal narrative, and helping the mind communicate with the brain. This allows us to better understand our own stories and feelings so that we can...
The Benefits of Mindfulness Practice
from Elmo Shade The most common reasons people come to a Mindfulness Practice are Physical pain or chronic pain Emotional pain due to loss, death, or serious or potentially fatal diagnosis Inability to manage the day to day stressors of life The benefits of...