Mindful Matters Mind-Body Counselling

10/10/2025

The 2025 Mental Health Day theme is “Access to Services – Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies,” which stresses the importance of inclusive support during crises. It’s not just about physical aid; mental health services like counseling and psychological care are equally crucial. This day aims to create a safe space for individuals to share their struggles and seek help, promoting resilience and reducing stigma.

We need to hear each other and lean in to each other 💚

09/10/2025

As we come back to our fall routines, consider how and when you are making time in your schedule to connect with others and engage in your community. This is a key element to our overall health and well being.

Isolation and loneliness is actually dangerous to our health and is shown to double the rates of heart attack and stroke, depress our immune function, cause low stress tolerance, as well as increased rates of anxiety snd depression. Feeling excluded from groups and the community also triggers the same pain circuits as physical pain.

Search online, talk to your friends, family and coworkers about activities and events they are involved in, see what interests you and get out there and connect! Your heart and mind will thank you for it ❤️

09/02/2025

As the season changes, remember to allow yourself to slowly transition. Your nervous system needs time to adjust to the busyness of the fall routine, the cooler weather and the many emotions that come with this time of year.

If you were able to experience the slowness and lightness of summer, remember that was imprinted in your nervous system and your body and brain remember what that experience was.

So elicit a felt sense of it in the middle of your busy day and remind yourself that even in the busy times, we always have time to slow down, be present, look around, take a deep breath and enjoy the moment 🍃🍂 ☀️

08/13/2025

Somatic (SE) Touch helps the body recover from physical and emotional overwhelm.

For many people, traumatic experiences may not even be in their conscious memory, but they know that talk therapy is not helping.
SE Touch is a slow type of bodywork that provides neuro signals to the body to decrease the production of stress cortisol levels and increase the trust hormones such as oxytocin. The body is able to start to organize towards having more regulation and resilience in the nervous system and vital organs (viscera).

Kathy Kain emphasizes that “Somatic therapists need to be highly skilled in their capacities to understand as many of the body’s forms of communication as possible.”

To book a somatic touch session, click the link in the bio.

07/17/2025

06/24/2025

Secure attachment means being able to ask for AND accept help; being able to notice cues AND offer help to our loved ones.

Our attachment relationships influence our internal working models of ourselves as well as others.

A safe haven connection calms the nervous system and makes distress manageable.

It’s important to build on or learn how to open up to secure relationships in order to feel good in our lives.

06/19/2025

Just to not overcomplicate things. LOVE IS LOVE. Can we just celebrate that? 🩷

05/15/2025

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and TODAY is Mental Health Action Day! What’s one thing you can do today to put thought or intention into ACTION for your mental health? Go for a walk in nature, free journal the hard feelings that are keeping you stuck, nourish your body and brain with a healthy superfood smoothie or salad, reach out to your friends in gratitude for their unwavering support and connection. Give your partner or kids a big ol’ “I’m grateful for you” hug, pour your heart out to your therapist, get an impromptu pedicure. There are so many options to put thought into self-care action today. Sending love and care to all those who are struggling right now. You are never alone. There are always people waiting to support and care for you 🩷🩷

05/05/2025

Times certainly are a changin’. It’s important to remember that as humans, we are very adaptable to change. In fact we know that the only constant is change. Just like we adapt to every coming season, we can adapt to all the seasons of change in our lives. Remember your skills of adaptability: slow down enough to allow the change and remind yourself that everything is ok and you will be ok and that forever and ever in history, as a species, we have always been evolving. Yes there’s bumps and challenges but remember to come back to our bodies, come back to that inner knowing that we have done this before and we can do it again. Take care, self-care, and love your neighbor 🩷

04/07/2025

Times are uncertain and stressful. To some degree we are all feeling the shifting foundation from under our feet and perhaps feeling a sense of “solastalgia” (Glenn Albrecht, 2003). During times like these, one of the key skills we can develop are the skills of adaptation. I am here to help you build these skills and to provide nervous system settling as we ride these waves together 🌊

To book, see link in the bio.