The Center for Mind, Body & Play, 3345 Whitfield Avenue (2025)

02/08/2025

Psychedelic-Assisted Healing is More Than the Substance.

What makes a psychedelic journey truly transformational?

In my experience—after sitting with many brave souls on their healing path—it’s not just the neurochemical shifts created by the medicine. That’s powerful, yes, but not the heart of it.

The deepest healing unfolds inside a sacred container.
A space of real safety, attunement, and unconditional presence.
A space where the nervous system finally says, “I’m safe enough to let go.”

That’s when the journey begins—not just inward, but homeward.

We were always meant to be held in relationships and environments that meet us right where we are, allowing the truth of our Soul to rise, unguarded and unashamed.
When those conditions are offered, sacred things happen inside us.

The fractured parts begin to re-member—
to return to wholeness,
to reclaim the beauty that was never lost, only buried.

This afternoon, I have the honor of sitting alongside another courageous journeyer, as they awaken to the wonder of it all… and of all of themselves.

This is what healing was always meant to be.

09/07/2025

“We deserve to be in environments that bring out the softness in us, not the survival in us.” ~ Brene Brown

Some spaces bring out the version of us that braces, is always scanning for safety and informs our next right word, or gesture or performing action to remain safe in unsafe rooms or relationships. Make no mistake, this is not Social Etiquette, these are trauma responses.

While other rooms and relationships —the right ones—let us soften. Exhale. Feel fully human without fear.

That shift isn’t small. It’s everything.

07/07/2025

Join us for A Night of Sound and Community while creating Healing Space Within.

We create spaces for like-minded people to Connect, Heal and Restore. This summer Sound Circle is a special one

Limited seats remain but our welcoming spirit is always Unlimited. Join us…

24/04/2025

We are thrilled to have Humminbird Holistic’s Founder, Susan Munn host this beautiful meditation event.

This 90-minute class will guide you through opening your Lower Chakras while dropping you IN with a guided meditation and community connection.

What better way to start your week. RSVP today, space is limited.

22/04/2025

This building, She can hold the LIGHT on a sunny day as powerfully as she holds LOVE & Possibility for every person who walks through her doors to heal.

April marks the 3rd anniversary of opening our doors to this Collective Healing Center. We opened with one goal in mind and that was simply to create “A Place Where Healing Feels Possible” from the moment anyone walked through the doors .

Since then, we have had the privilege of offering everything from individual therapy sessions for soul changing trauma healing, yoga by candlelight, Cincy Postpartum Circles, acupuncture, Reiki, Psychedelic assisted therapy, ART for Self-Expansion to groups on Intuition, Human Design to Mindfulness. We even have a Reiki school that is hosted here. So if you’re looking to be a Reiki master, we have you covered. 😉

All of this is to say, we couldn’t be more touched and inspired by the courage, playfulness and healing grit that we get to witness in and around this space daily.

And, since then, several more Healing Centers have opened up in Cincinnati and we are so inspired by their visions.

To be in a city with fellow Healers who are making spaces like this for ALL of us to heal enough to Hold Our Own Stories is a dream come true after being an isolated Therapist during COVID.

On this 3rd birthday, my only hope is that we can keep casting the net so wide with healing solutions in our region that ALL who seek healing have a soft chair (or yoga mat) to land on where an open-hearted healer sits across from them saying, we’re so glad you have come.

Thank you Cincinnati for allowing us to serve so many of you. It is my greatest passion and my greatest body of aligned work.

Please celebrate this with telling us about your time here with us. ❤️

Signed with a full heart ~ Andie Bernard, Founder

20/03/2025

You’re not alone.

If “The Tell” has been sitting heavy in your body, if it’s unearthed something tender or cracked open a knowing you can’t quite name—you’re not alone. Some books don’t just tell a story; they stir something deep. This is one of them.

I believe in spaces where we don’t have to hold it all alone. Spaces where we can be with what’s rising, where we can breathe into the discomfort, rage, grief, and relief that come when truth is spoken.

That’s why I’m starting a Book Circle—not just to read, but to process, connect, and witness one another in what’s bubbling up. A place to sit with the hard without shrinking from it. A place where community meets healing.

If this speaks to you, if you’re feeling the pull to be in conversation with others who are also sitting with The Tell, come join us. Let’s do this together.

Drop a comment or DM or email me directly if you want in. You don’t have to hold it all alone.

This series is a healing circle created by our Founder, Andie Bernard. Join us on 5 Sunday’s beginning the last week of April from 10-12:00 pm in the sacred Main Room at The Healing Center for Mind, Body & Play in Gaslight Clifton.

Space is limited. Email interest and we will send you the details.

04/03/2025

Listening for Your Wise Inner Voice ✨

Your inner wisdom is always speaking—are you listening?

Join us for an immersive class where we’ll explore ancient techniques to deepen self-trust, enhance intuition, and reconnect with our inner knowing. This is more than a class; it’s a community of seekers coming together to heal, grow, and support one another.

This is the first in a series of offerings from The Center for My Body and Play, where we believe that true healing begins when we learn to tune into ourselves and connect with others in meaningful ways.

Come as you are. Leave with tools to listen deeply, live authentically, and engage in relationships with greater clarity and presence.

04/03/2025

Listening for Your Wise Inner Voice ✨

Your inner wisdom is always speaking—are you listening?

Join Valarie as she offers us an immersive class where we’ll explore ancient techniques to deepen self-trust, enhance intuition, and reconnect with our inner knowing. This is more than a class; it’s a community of seekers coming together to heal, grow, and support one another.

This is the first in a series of offerings from The Center for My Body and Play, where we believe that true healing begins when we learn to tune into ourselves and connect with others in meaningful ways.

Come as you are. Leave with tools to listen deeply, live authentically, and engage in relationships with greater clarity and presence.

08/02/2025

So, I didn’t buy this hat, but I did buy this $10 outfit…

This is a short story about the universe sending us signs.

On the plane yesterday, I watched Goodrich and loved it. In one scene, a healing ritual asked people to claim one word they wanted most. Instinctively, I answered with them: Held.

I want to feel deeply held—by the universe, my guides, my people, my family, and myself.

Fast forward to this morning…

While sitting outside in the sun, I realized I hadn’t brought a hat. After 30 peaceful minutes, I approached a group of women and asked where I could buy one. “What kind?” one asked. A simple straw hat to protect my face, I replied.

Later, there was a knock at my door. I called out from the shower, “I’m sorry, I’m in the shower! Please don’t come in yet.”

A voice responded, “We have a gift for you.”

I had no idea what they meant, so I asked for 10 minutes. Another voice chimed in, “We have a hat for you.”

Wrapped in a towel, I opened the door to two women from a skateboarding retreat. Sarah, one of the instructors, explained that an hour after I left their table, someone from their retreat had left behind a hat.

A forgotten hat? Delivered by strangers? After I had just spoken my desire to feel held?

Tears welled up. The message wasn’t about the hat—it was the universe whispering, We’re listening.

I told Sarah I was here alone, turning 50, and seeking the felt sense of being held. She had unknowingly carried a message I needed to hear: I am held. I’m not alone. The world is full of beauty, and the universe is always responding if we’re open enough to receive it.

She asked if she could hug me, and in that moment, I was physically held.

I hope to keep this hat forever as a reminder that what we put out into the universe, love and energy will pick up. And sometimes, if the conditions align, the universe comes knocking—disguised as Sarah, the skateboarding teacher/healer.

Sending you all love. May this message reach whoever needs it.

Oh, and Sarah? She’s also a breathwork healer. We’re going to go breathe together.

❤️❤️

18/12/2024

Please join The Center for Mind, Body & Play’s Founder along with a roomful of empowered women who are curious, motivated and connected in growth.

Photo credit: Teah Longland Photography

https://www.andersonareachamber.org/awe-sessions

26/11/2024

Brilliantly hopeful!

10/06/2024

Tomorrow I embark on a deep journey inward. I’m headed to Oregon to do the last leg of a year long journey of becoming a Psychedelic Assistant Therapist.

To do it, I must go to the plant medicine for my own answers. Given the scary and sometimes unbearable stories in my life, I’m afraid to let down my well-earned defenses and just surrender myself to the pain and shadow of myself. But in the end, what I believe is waiting for me in my deep subconscious, behind the pain - is love.

Because from the moment I could walk and talk the only thing that I’ve always felt was ALL pure in the world was Love.

I’m nervous and I’m scared because I’m human and I’m also open and curious. I intend to rest and play.

If you find yourself Timid to walk towards your own pain, but knowing it’s the only way through the darkness, I get you. You are not alone. And we will both find each other in the light on the other side.

Be well my friends.

In the meantime, I’ve left you with a beautiful Mary Oliver poem that has guided my courage:

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognised as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save

Mary Oliver

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