Sacred Treehouse

06/23/2025

I'm here to spread the news about the value-packed nutrition masterclass with Christie tomorrow!

Christie brings more than 30 years of experience in helping people move from control and confusion to clarity and confidence in how they nourish themselves. She makes intuitive eating clear, gentle, and doable—even if you've struggled for a long time.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 24th @ 9:30 am you’ll get to meet Christie and learn how to take practical steps towards enjoying food guilt-free and in a way supportive of your health goals!

Register for Ditch the Diets: Introduction to Intuitive Eating Masterclass below!!

Sick of dieting? Ready to actually listen to what your body needs? Join us for a FREE ONLINE TRAINING on Ditching the Diet: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating!

06/17/2025

🌿🍕🍉 You're officially invited! 🍉🍕🌿
Ditch the Diets: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
Tuesday, June 24th at 9:30 AM EDT
Free community masterclass with Christie Caggiani, RD

If you've ever thought...

💭 "How do I balance eating what I love with what my body needs?"
💭 "Every diet I’ve tried leaves me feeling like a failure."
💭 "I’ve heard about intuitive eating, but I don’t get how it could be healthy. Wouldn’t I just eat junk food if I let myself eat what I want?"

…this class is for you.

This is not another diet or food plan.
It’s a new way of relating to food and your body—with compassion, curiosity, and expert guidance.

✨ Whether you're skeptical, curious, or just tired of starting over, you're welcome here.

Christie Caggiani, a seasoned Dietitian and Nutrition Therapist, helps people every day who feel:

➡️ Afraid of weight gain
➡️ Worried they’ll lose control
➡️ Unsure how to trust their body’s signals

In this free session, she’ll walk you through the foundations of intuitive eating and offer practical tools to rethink food, health, and nourishment—without guilt, shame, or rules.

Register now at https://sacred-treehouse.mykajabi.com/pl/2148684358
Let this be the summer you stop dieting—and start reconnecting with your body.

Sick of dieting? Ready to actually listen to what your body needs? Join us for a FREE ONLINE TRAINING on Ditching the Diet: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating!

05/20/2025

Here in Florida, we’re starting to feel that shift — the thickening heat, longer days, the early signs of summer arriving. As spring gives way, many of us begin to travel more, spend time outside, or simply move at a different rhythm.

It’s the perfect time to remember: your mindfulness practice can travel with you. It can live in the shade of a tree, in the rhythm of your walk, in the feeling of your feet on the earth. Nature is one of our oldest teachers and most powerful allies when it comes to letting go, grounding, and reconnecting with what matters.

Today, we’re sharing a beautiful guided meditation from Dr. Patty Shutt, recorded during our weekly sangha. This practice gently invites you to connect with a difficult emotion or collective pain — and then to let the Earth support you in releasing it.

Use this practice to let go, release, and trust that the Earth wants you to be free from your burdens. https://youtu.be/mpzPOVm9IZw?si=Xu7Ytvdjf6yTVj3Y

We hope it brings you peace, presence, and a deeper sense of connection.

05/19/2025

Check out this 2 min recap of Q&A with our NVC Mindful Communication teacher Jennifer Brummer!
In our upcoming class you’ll learn how this approach helps you speak with clarity, listen with compassion, and honor both your needs and others’. Whether in romantic, family, or professional settings—NVC offers practical steps to move from conflict to connection. Class starts this Friday May 23rd!

Jennifer Brummer answers our community's questions about our 8-week group program Mindful Communication. The program is based on Marshall Rosenberg's work of...

05/19/2025

Coming in June… Intuitive Nourishment 🍓
We're opening registration for our next offering: Intuitive Nourishment, starting June 18th. This course helps you reconnect with your body, move away from rigid food rules, and learn to trust your own inner wisdom around eating and self-care.

If you’ve struggled with stress eating, self-judgment, or confusion about what your body needs — this gentle, empowering course will support you in creating a more compassionate, joyful relationship with food and your body.

More details coming soon, but if this speaks to you now:
👉 https://sacred-treehouse.mykajabi.com/intuitivenourishment

05/19/2025

If you've been thinking about joining our Mindful Communication class, this is the moment to say YES — registration closes Wednesday night, and we start this Friday, May 23rd!

This 8-week course is a powerful opportunity to learn how to speak with more clarity, empathy, and connection — especially in moments that usually lead to conflict, shutdown, or misunderstanding.
https://sacred-treehouse.mykajabi.com/NVC

05/06/2025

In NVC (Nonviolent Communication) we say:
“I’m feeling ___ because I’m needing ___.”

Every emotion is a signal!!
🔔 Need met = joy, relief, calm
🔔 Need unmet = frustration, hurt, tension

This perspective shift can help bring more compassion to yourself and others when experiencing emotions leading to les conflicts and more peace, joy, and satisfaction in relationships - consider what you’re feeling right now and what you might need ❤️

Want to learn how to listen more deeply to what your feelings are telling you? Join our Mindful Communication course starting soon—attend our free orientation and Q&A this Friday May 9th where you can meet Jen and discover if this class is right for you!

04/28/2025

Ever feel like you’re talking to a brick wall?
You try to explain. You share your side. Maybe you even really think it through beforehand. But still… nothing seems to get through.

One of the first things we teach in Mindful Communication is this:
If their wall is up, stop talking to the wall.

I know—when someone isn’t listening, it’s tempting to push harder. To explain more. To make your point just right.
But if they’re emotionally shut down, defensive, or overwhelmed, no amount of explaining is going to land.

In Nonviolent Communication, the first step isn’t to speak—it’s to connect. That might mean turning inward first, offering yourself empathy for the frustration, pain, or longing you’re feeling. It might mean pausing long enough to notice: “I’m needing understanding. I’m needing care.”

From there, you’re more able to offer presence to the other person—not to fix, convince, or wait your turn to talk, but to listen empathically, with genuine curiosity.

This is often what softens the wall—not perfect words, but the energy of connection underneath them.

And yes, it’s tender work—especially when you're hurting too.

That’s why we pair NVC with mindfulness: to help you slow down, meet your own needs with care, and hold space for real connection to emerge.

This is just one of the many powerful practices we’ll explore together in Mindful Communication, starting May 23—tools to help you navigate real-life conversations with more clarity, care, and connection.

04/23/2025

Tired of arguing, wishing there was a more effective way to communicate with your family?!

There is! Our newest class Mindful Communication will be teaching you the world-renowned frameworks of Nonviolent Communication.

Learn more about this 8-week group class starting May 23rd - https://sacred-treehouse.mykajabi.com/NVC

04/18/2025

For MBSR & MBCT graduates! Join us for a day of guided practice, reflection, and quiet renewal with teacher Trish Magyari. Whether you’re rekindling your mindfulness practice or deepening it, this space is here to hold you.

Trish will host the retreat hybrid through Zoom offering a virtual or in-person retreat experience at Sacred Treehouse on April 26th, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM EDT.

Details here: https://sacred-treehouse.mykajabi.com/offers/cEGpF6FL/checkout

04/17/2025

Our prayers go out to our Florida State family, friends, and community 🙏 may you take a moment to send "metta" (loving-kindness wishes) with us to the FSU community ❤️

03/06/2025

We have a special Q&A happening tomorrow at 10 AM, and you won’t want to miss it.

Trish Magyari—an experienced mindfulness teacher (Patty's teacher), therapist, and retreat leader with decades of expertise—will be answering your questions about mindfulness meditation: how to do it, where to start, and what the benefits are. Trish has trained extensively in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and will be providing an overview of the 8-week MBSR class starting on 3/14.

If you’re curious about taking a mindfulness class with us, we encourage you to join us on Zoom tomorrow at 10 am est. We’ll help guide you toward the best resource or class to begin your mindfulness journey—or deepen the practice you already have.

Trish brings a compassionate, trauma-sensitive, eco-mindfulness approach, and we are truly grateful to have her on our team leading the MBSR class this spring.

Orientation and Q&A for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

March 7th @ 10-11 am EST via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85013191190

Hope to see you there!

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