Love Rises, Hammond, LA (2026)

04/15/2026

What I Love about Rose? — This Week’s Herb Feature

I’m sharing what I love most about working with rose… not just as a flower, but as an embodied experience of the heart.

There is something instantly softening about rose. You can just feel it!

The aroma alone opens the chest, inviting you to slow down, breathe deeper, and feel.

Rose carries a gentle, nurturing medicine.

It’s rich in vitamin C, supporting the immune system and skin health, while also working on a more subtle level — helping to open the heart, soothe emotional tension, and bring you back into your feminine essence.

What I love about rose is this:

It reminds you that softness is strength.

In a world that often pulls us into doing, pushing, and holding it all together… rose invites you to soften. To receive. To reconnect with your heart and your natural rhythm.

When we use the medicine to its fullest, we’re not just consuming an herb…We’re allowing it to shape how we feel, move, and show up.

This week, rose felt like a return to the heart.

How I upgrade my coffee...
A Simple Morning Ritual I Love

Rose-Infused Honey:
• 1/4 cup dried rose petals
• 1 cup natural, local honey

Place both in a small mason jar and let sit overnight.
In the morning, strain into a clean jar, seal, and label.

I love adding one teaspoon of this rose-infused honey to my morning coffee — a simple way to bring a little softness and beauty into the day.

I offer personalized, curated one-on-one healing experiences in your home — designed to support your body, mind, and spirit in a deeply intentional way.

You can schedule a complimentary consultation through my website.

— Dr. Christina Melancon, ND
Trauma-informed Coach
www.LoveRisesWellness.com

04/01/2026

This is beautiful.

03/26/2026

During harvesting season, I just love the feel of my bare feet on the grass and dirt ... the intimacy with nature, the birds serenading me as I pick dandelions. It reminds me of the need to
Get Back to the Basics.

Again and again after 25 years in the health field, I always come back to the basics. It's a simple philosophy.

So many people reach out asking about the latest fad — the newest supplement, the quickest fix, the trending protocol.

And what I’ve seen time and time again is this:

Fads come and go… and so do their results.

But what stands the test of time is learning how to steward your health consistently.

Your body is not a problem to fix.
It is a temple. A gift.
And it follows a natural, intelligent rhythm.

When we honor that rhythm, healing becomes sustainable.

I always come back to the basics:

1. Eat natural, whole, unprocessed food
2. Move your body daily
3. Drink clean water for hydration
(a pinch of Celtic sea salt adds minerals and supports cellular absorption)
4. Stay grateful and forgiving
5. Use herbs over isolated chemistry
6. Get morning sun
7. Stay in prayer
8. Zoom out and be patient — there are no quick fixes

This isn’t complicated… but it does require consistency.

When you align your daily habits with how the body was designed to function,
you don’t have to chase healing — you begin to *live it*.

And that, to me, is the real work.

Let's get you back to the basics!
Now accepting virtual appointments.
985-242-0399

Love Rises
— Dr. Christina Melancon, ND

03/23/2026

I’m opening space for a few clients right now.

If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your body—I help you come back into alignment, gently and deeply.

Using EVOX Perception Reframing, we bring awareness to the deeper patterns shaping your experience—and allow them to soften, shift, and release.

This is a space to return to yourself.

If it feels aligned, you can schedule a session by texting 985-242-0399.

Dr. Christina Melancon, ND
Trauma-informed coach
Love Rises Wellness Center

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03/18/2026

There is a place in your body where you hold your breath…
where you brace…
where life has asked you to protect your heart.

And over time, that place becomes tight, guarded, and tired.

✨ Open Heart Pilates ✨ is where we begin to gently unwind that.

This is not just a workout.
It’s a space to move what’s been held, soften the chest, and reconnect to your breath in a way that feels safe and supportive.

In this 60-minute class, you’ll be guided through:

• slow, intentional movement to release tension in the chest and upper back
• gentle opening of the heart space
• core strengthening to support a healthy, aligned spine
• simple breathwork to calm the nervous system and create heart–brain coherence

You don’t have to be flexible.
You don’t have to be experienced.
You just have to be willing to show up for your body.

🕊 $20 | 60 minutes
🧘 Bring your mat
Venmo me at loveriseswellness to save your spot.

Location: Love Rises Wellness Center
3010 Old Baton Rouge Hwy, Hammond LA

Come as you are…
and leave feeling more open, grounded, and connected within yourself.

03/17/2026

I want to talk about something we don’t often consider…

Your skin holds stress.

Tension in the jaw.
Tightness in the brow.
Holding in the face from years of bracing, performing, surviving.

What Heather does is different.

She works with:

• intentional, slow facial massage
• lymphatic stimulation
• calming sound frequencies
• nervous system regulation through touch

This isn’t just about how you look…

It’s about what your body has been holding.

And when the body feels safe…
it restores.

Skin clears.
Eyes soften.
Energy shifts.

This is why we’ve brought this into Love Rises—
because healing isn’t separate from beauty.

DM “RESET” to experience Heather’s Healing Touch Facial 🌿

03/17/2026

Are you taking too many supplements… or feeling overwhelmed trying to figure out what your body actually needs?

Are you tired of swallowing handfuls of pills every day?
Confused about what to take—or what even works together?

You’re not alone.

Let’s simplify it.

Schedule a Supplement Review with Dr. Christina, ND and receive a personalized biofeedback supplement scan to help you:
• Eliminate what your body doesn’t need
• Focus on what truly supports you
• Align your supplements with this season of your life.

This is about clarity, simplicity, and supporting your body in a way that feels grounded and intentional.

Schedule your session: Text SR to 985-242-0399 to schedule this 60 minute session. Bring your current supplements to the appointment.

Dr. Christina Melancon, ND, CDS II
www.DrChristinaND.com
Love Rises Wellness Center & Apothecary

03/11/2026

I’m sharing something we’ve quietly been cultivating inside Love Rises…

A space where your body can soften.
Where your skin is nourished.
Where your nervous system is finally allowed to exhale.

Heather’s Healing Touch Facial is not just skincare.

It’s a full-body reset.

Through intentional touch, sound healing, and deeply nourishing skincare techniques, this experience invites your system out of survival… and back into safety.

✨ glowing skin
✨ softened tension in the face + jaw
✨ deep parasympathetic activation ... Exhale

This is for the woman who is tired of holding it all together.

You don’t need to push anymore.
You get to receive here at Love Rises Wellness Center.

DM me “FACIAL” to learn more or book your session 🤍

12/31/2025

My Butt is Bigger Than Yours!

Social media has quietly turned beauty into a contest.

Scroll for even a second and the message seeps in:
I’m not curvy enough.
My skin isn’t tight enough.
I need to fix something.

The constant comparison of the size of body parts doesn’t inspire—it fragments. It pulls you into the mind, and away from your heart.

In other words, “Enough with the bouncy butts in spandex! Geez”

💙Self-love powerfully rises above comparison culture and the obsession with physical appearance.

💙 Self-Love doesn’t ask you to measure yourself against anyone else. It isn’t looking for a “better version” of your skin, butt, or chest.

💙Love is coherence.
It is Resonance within.

When you stop performing for approval and return to embodiment, competition, comparison, and feelings of deficiency fall away.

💙 Here’s how love rises 💙
What makes you truly magnetic and beautiful has nothing to do with being curvier or fitter—and everything to do with being real and embodied—the harmonious merging of mind, body, and spirit.

— Love Rises 💙
Dr. Christina Melancon, ND
Trauma-informed Coach

www.DrChristinaND.com

12/29/2025

Love Rises — Coming Soon💕

There are creations that come quickly.
And then there are those shaped by a lifetime.💕

Love Rises was born from devotion—to truth, to integrity, to the quiet knowing that love is the most powerful healer there is. No matter what I walked through, that knowing carried me.

Now, alongside a circle of heart-led women who have each been forged by their own becoming, we are opening a sanctuary—one that honors growth, remembrance, courage, and the wisdom of the heart.

This is an invitation to rise into who you truly are.

More to come.💕

To open very soon in Hammond Louisiana, Love Rises Wellness Center
Reclaim. Restore, Renew.

Heather King Jayna Manieri Young Keely Anglin Tonya Hebert Mollere

12/20/2025

I’m sharing this photo as an invitation.

An invitation to embrace natural beauty.

An invitation to soften our relationship with aging.

An invitation to be real.

No Botox.
No fillers.
No makeup.
No filters.
No AI.

Just me—fully human.

If you feel called, I’d love for you to join me. Post a photo that feels honest. Or simply offer yourself a little more compassion today.

May we normalize authenticity.
May we celebrate faces that reflect truth, resilience, and soul.
May we remember that beauty was never meant to look the same on everyone.

You are beautiful because you are you.

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