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Channing, Houston, TX (2025)

02/21/2024

Jones Wellness Center IOP is now OPEN!

At Jones Wellness Center, we nurture the mind-body connection in our patients by interweaving modern neuroscience, psychotherapy, and holistic body-based treatment modalities.

We offer Somatic Therapy, EMDR, DBT, ACT, CBT, and Yoga.

Our Program Includes Adult IOP, Adolescent IOP, and Virtual IOP.

We are passionate about supporting individuals on their mental health journey, and we believe that with restoring health to the whole mind-body each client will not only achieve a reduction in symptoms, but ultimately a greater sense of self: their authentic embodied self.

☎ Call us today at (713) 844-8447
📧 Email us at info@joneswellnesscenter.com
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01/01/2023

Today marks the beginning of a very beautiful yet very scary transition. When I moved to Houston 4 years ago, I found my home at Malaty. I found my footing here. Now, I'm blooming 🤍. I'm opening the first black owned intensive outpatient program in Houston, Jones Wellness Center. Our approach nurtures the mind-body connection, understands the intricate role of the nervous system, and uses a multidisciplinary therapeutic model that focuses on restoring health to the whole mind-body to allow each client to walk in their authentic embodied self. Follow my journey .

09/26/2022

Women go through the most attempting to uphold the patriarchal facade to be the chill girl who shows zero signs of aging, body hair, stretch marks, or weight gain & moves through life with seeming effortlessness that requires a GREAT deal of behind-the-scenes effort.

The attempts to uphold the ever-changing beauty standards is like being on a hamster wheel. And it's so freaking exhausting, distracting, and time consuming.

It progressively gets more impossible to obtain as time passes because - well, we ALL are going to age, grow body hair, have stretch marks, and gain weight because bodies change and that's a part of the human existence.

09/22/2022

Let's talk about shame & vulnerability. Everyone has something about themselves that they hide from the world.

When you sit in shame, it eats at you. It can lead to addiction, overeating, over-controlling behavior, depression, violence, and avoidance.

When we share our vulnerabilities with a trusted person, such as a safe friend or therapist, we're met with empathy and realize that we are not alone. When there is empathy and a sense of connection or belonging, shame simply cannot exist.

When you're hiding who you are, you aren't allowing yourself to fully connect with others. Genuine connection brings healing and acceptance.

Let's show up for the world, by first showing up for ourselves, by giving ourselves empathy, kindness, and our most vulnerable moments. 🤍

This will not only help you naturally display empathy, kindness, and compassion in the world, but vulnerability leads to joy, creativity, love, & belonging.

You aren't perfect, and that's okay. None of us are 🤗

09/20/2022

In my work, I often find that when people begin dieting they develop "fear foods" ( particular food choices they believe must be avoided to obtain a smaller figure).

When a particular food is limited or forbidden, it creates a sense of scarcity or deprivation. Fear food then can turn into binge foods.

Which is so frustrating and often makes people feel super helpless.

This happens when a food has been restricted for a long period of time and then suddenly becomes available. We tend to feel driven to eat as much as possible because we don't know when we will have the chance again.

This is actually one of the ways the body tries to get its needs met. Your body pushes past your mental food rule, because it's lacking nutrients your body needs to survive.

Research studies show that restriction and deprivation increase the "reward value" of food, so that food triggers a higher pleasure response when it's deprived than when its available.

When we're deprived, we tend to eat faster, eat more, and be less connected to our fullness cues.

Now, when food is abundant, we can feel relax knowing it's always available.

If you want to feel calm and relaxed around food, the best thing to do is gift yourself the unconditional permission to eat anytime you want. 🤍

09/18/2022

Peeling back the layers of body shame is like peeling the layers of an onion. We have to peel back years (if not decades) of conditioning, false beliefs about ourselves, grief, etc. and reconnect with our hearts.

Reaching body acceptance is not a "fireworks✨️" type of grand moment. The process is so slow that you might not notice it because your focus will no longer be on your body.

Your focus shifts onto other parts of your life and your experience on this Earth. Your time spent with the mirror will shift from disheartening to a simple mundane task.

This shift won't be because you have done something to drastically change your body.. its that you would have peeled back enough layers to actually see yourself, your whole self, multi-faceted & complex being as we all are. When this occurs, you'll be seeing yourself with your heart. 🤍

09/10/2022

Our bodies - our expressions, gestures, posture, positioning - sends messages to our nervous system in a feedback loop. How we feel can affect how we hold our bodies, and how we hold our bodies can affect how we feel.

When we feel shame, our bodies tend to look like we're slumping - our chest caves inwards, our shoulders curve in, our neck shrinks downward, and our head lowers.

If you are working on healing shame, notice how you may be exhibiting some of the physical shapes of shame naturally.

I invite you to experiment with what it feels like to elongate your spine, lift your chin up, raise your arms in a V shape above your head, and lift your chest.

Notice how your feelings shift as your body shifts. Notice, by chance, if any thoughts shifted.

09/08/2022

Spending more time naked (in the safety of your own space) is a form of body image exposure that can help increase a person's body image and self-esteem.

So many individuals do little "tricks" to avoid seeing themselves fully such as completely avoiding mirrors, only utilizing chest up mirrors, or rushing to cover your body with a towel before walking in front of a mirror after a shower. Avoidance only strengthens negative body image.

Gently giving yourself the space to spend time naked, forces your brain to build new experiences with your body, become comfortable with your body, and essentially will build new messages of body acceptance. 🤍

09/07/2022

Trauma can create a dissociative relationship an individual has with their body (the brain does this automatically to protect a person from the trauma they've experienced).

This may lead to discomfort with touch and intimacy, a distorted sense of identity & self- worth, and create a disturbance of how you think and feel in your body (example: immediate shame about your body).

This can create a shift in your subconscious mind (especially if the trauma happened when you were a child) because your brain develops a new core belief (I feel gross in my body) and then the brain naturally begins to collect "evidence" for you belief.

It gathers evidence to make your belief stronger and continues collecting "evidence" for years or decades until you restructure your core belief.

My Body My Celebration helps you to restructure your core beliefs, experience your body in a new way, and feel comfortable in your skin.

09/06/2022

When people say "I feel fat', they are using it to umbrella feelings and emotions that they don't have the words for. Many people use the phrase unconsciously to cover up feelings such as insecure, sad, overwhelmed, or disgusting.

Fat is a natural part of everyone's body and everyone's body is not supposed to have the same body type. Diet culture has managed to turn to equate the meaning of fat to "unhealthy," when your body literally needs fat to survive.

Restricting your body of food to be "skinny" is one of the most unhealthy things you can do to your body that's sitting at its natural weight. Hugely hypocritical, huh?

The next time, you catch yourself using the phrase, 'I feel fat', ask yourself how are you truly feeling and work through those emotions.

08/27/2022

When you stop exercising to punish your body, you unlock an inner joy that yields hopefulness, connection, and courage.

The human body is meant to move 🤍 By moving you are strengthening your muscles, stability, balance, bones, joints, circulation, coordination, heart, and mental health.

However, diet culture has stolen the joy of movement from many of us. Movement became something we had to do to maintain an "aesthetic". This causes individuals to create rigorous workout routines and schedules, feel guilty for the inability to work out or for rest days, obsess over steps, and ignore their body's needs in hopes to reach that aesthetic.

It is difficult to release this mindset. Here is a gentle invitation to move away from focusing on the number on the scale, and focus more on how your body feels as you do activities that you love.

Learning to move your body joyfully is key to improving your body image. Approach wellness from a place of self-respect and self-love, not self-hate and self-criticism.

There is much more to moving your body than trying to change your body.

08/26/2022

DO I HAVE AN EATING DISORDER? 94% of individuals who have an eating disorder do not "look" like they have an eating disorder. Eating disorders are in the mind and manifest through physical behaviors.

Weight does fluctuate, but typically not to the extent people can tell. Regardless if the weight is up or down, the emotional pain and mental anguish remains the same.

Weight does not determine how severe your eating disorder is, so please never make the assumption that just because someone looks fit and healthy that they're not struggling internally.

A few signs your body is struggling and not receiving the proper nutrients are: loosing your hair, anemia, mood swings, chronic fatigue, flat mood, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, weakened bones, insomnia, irregular menstrual cycle, gastrointestinal issues (constipation, bloating), heart problems, etc.

If you believe you may be struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to a licensed mental health professional. "I'm not sick enough" is not a thing. Let's not wait until we cause permanent damage to our bodies.

08/22/2022

I meet a lot of individuals who believe that they will feel good in their body or love themselves more when they meet their ideal weight.

The truth is, pursuing a weight goal specifically to make you feel better about your body does not work. Once you reach the weight goal, you will feel happy at first.

But this thought cycle leads your brain to create a new weight goal or fixate on another part of your body that needs "fixing."

Focus on building healthy habits as a form of self-respect. Your body deserves respect, kindness, and appreciation regardless of the number on the scale.

08/21/2022

HOW TO HANDLE FEAR OF WEIGHT GAIN: Many people fear gaining weight because they feel they won't be attractive or be able to feel beautiful.

Diet culture has done an amazing job at making people feel that they are not good enough or worthy of love if they are not some subjective ideal weight. If this is you, please sit with that belief for a minute.

Now imagine, a small child maybe 7 or 8..this could be your niece or little sister... running up to you and saying "I'm not skinny enough to be loved." What would you say back to this child?

Would you respond to this child with the same logic you just held? Probably not.

If you would not repeat this to a small child, a friend, or family member, then that means you don't truly hold this belief.

It is a learned belief of someone or something that taught it to you, or simply because it's the belief of society.

The beautiful thing is this: if it's not your inner belief, then the belief can be changed. There's a truth in you that you are not walking in alignment with.

Let's unravel your truth. 🤍

08/20/2022

Our culture teaches us to be disconnected from our bodies - to assess and evaluate our body and treat our bodies as objects.

Even our religious and spiritual text teach us the goal is to ascend above the body and not be weighed down by the realness of personhood. All of this separates our mind from our body.

We experience a sweet aliveness when we remember the body and allow ourselves to settle into our heart. The heart reconnects us to new insight, deeper seeing, deeper experiencing, and deeper wisdom.

08/19/2022

Whether you are struggling with comparing yourself to individuals on social media, your school, or friends -- the result is the same.

There's this strong urge to retreat or hide that is caused by a misbelief that you don't matter or that you're not good enough.

Here's a gentle reminder to trust your soul. It has been here before. It has chosen a unique journey specifically designed for your heart to beam in all the ways that matter most to your true spirit or highest self.

08/16/2022

When I think about being in human form on this Earth, I think about the delicate, precious, heart bursting, jaw dropping moments that this body so graciously allows me to have.

From the time we were babies, we learned that our bodies can take us anywhere our soul desired to go, feel pleasure through giggles or warmth of a hug, and feel connected to not just the world, but all beings in it.

Then, suddenly we learn: "Your body is bad," and forget all the beauty that this body connects us to. We loose the core of the human experience, connection to ourselves and others, and the fullness of pleasure, wisdom, empathy, and wonder.

Connection to our physical selves tells us who we truly are, what we long for, and how to be fully alive. Remembering and reconnecting with our physical selves is a radical act of self love -- to shatter our need to earn our worth, and wake up to the beauty that there is already something sacred here.

This is a gentle invitation to be fully present in the body, fully present with yourself, and experience the beauty that is present in your current physical form.

Channing

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