The Resiliency Center, LLC

07/18/2025

Join Elizabeth Venart for Healing Intensives for Highly Sensitive Adults

When you’re highly sensitive, your empathetic heart notices more, processes it more deeply, and can become heavy under the weight of all you feel and witness. Healing Intensives offer an alternative to weekly therapy — or can provide time-limited focused support in addition to any weekly therapy you already do.

We meet for three hours initially to identify your goals and co-create a plan — the positive you want to welcome into your life and the memories, symptoms, or patterns you’d like support to process and shift. Intensives are 3-6 hours per day for a maximum of 24 hours. They can be done on consecutive days or spaced further apart.

Elizabeth Venart specializes in working with Highly Sensitive People, including other therapists. She is an Approved Consultant in both IFS (Internal Family Systems) and EMDR Therapy, integrating both approaches into her healing intensives work. If you’re interested in learning more, reach out to Elizabeth at 215-233-2002 or elizabethvenart@counselingsecure.com

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07/17/2025

We are excited to announce that this book, written by IFS-Informed EMDR Therapists to offer insights and strategies for EMDR therapists is now available for pre-order! Resiliency Center Director Elizabeth Venart is one of the authors — with a chapterin on IFS-Informed EMDR with Highly Sensitive People.

https://www.routledge.com/IFS-Informed-EMDR-Creative-and-Collaborative-Approaches/Polidi/p/book/9781032891675?srsltid=AfmBOoolpHUNByBAW1_KeBcLB5p9Rl3CQXwmhkKquwF9TbPsrytYQfgy&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLk-lFleHRuA2FlbQExAAEedz_xfMjkke-aJ_QfJKaxEwUTWuxWxmW0yJHmgmOtuJw4NtJT9QnGeWHgeoY_aem_Q00pwfLZ5ZIxJ85cUlo

IFS-Informed EMDR makes the case that the integration of these two influential therapy models creates something greater than the sum of its parts. It’s a book that can be used as a resource for therapeutic educational and training programs and as a supplement for people already familiar with at le...

07/16/2025

"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth."
— Ram Dass

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07/14/2025

Making healthy connections goes beyond simply avoiding feelings of loneliness and isolation. Our relationships impact all dimensions of our well-being, including physical and mental health and our ability to flourish at work and in every other facet of life.

07/12/2025

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."
— Hermann Hesse

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07/10/2025

More mindfulness opportunities for kids at the Resiliency Center:

Mindful Moments: Summer Series for Kids
Mondays: 10:00am-12:30pm. Age 5-7. Dates: 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28
Thursdays: 1:30pm-4:00pm. Age: 8-10 Dates: 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31

This four-week nature and arts mini workshop series for children includes nature-based arts and crafts, nature exploration and reflection, yoga, interactive music, grounding tools, mindfulness practices, and more.

Workshops take place at the Resiliency Center in Flourtown and Fort Washington State Park trails. Each participant will receive a canvas tote for gathering, a journal, a healthy nut free snack, and the items they create! Workshops have a maximum of 10 participants and pre-registration is required (no drop ins). Register early to save your spot!

Please contact Licensed Therapist Therese Daniels at therese.danielslcpc@gmail.com for more information or check www.rootstobranchestherapy.com for registration information.

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07/10/2025

One of the best instructions I’ve heard for meditation practice was given by Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahn Buddhadasa: “Do not do anything that takes you away from your body.”

The body lives in the present. When you are aware of the body, you are connected with living presence—the one place where you can see reality, see what is actually happening. Awareness of the body is our gateway into the truth of what is.

TR, Ch. 6, P. 80

07/08/2025

My Retreat at Chung-Nan
by Wang Wei

My heart in middle age found the Way,
And I came here to dwell at the foot of this mountain.
When the spirit moves, I wander alone
Where beauty is known only to me.
I will walk till the water checks my path,
Then sit and watch the rising clouds,
And some day meet an old woodcutter,
And talk and laugh and never return.

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

07/06/2025

There's a new play group for children at the Resiliency Center!

Social Skills Power Play: This 3-hour play group for children ages five and six starts combines fun learning of social-emotional skills with non-directive play time. Children also get creative — by making their own healthy snacks and engaging in artistic, expressive activities. Each session concludes with a mindfulness activity to learn tools for being calm and centered.

Six Fridays, 12-3 pm, from July 18-August 22nd

Group sessions are held at the Resiliency Center’s Schwenksville location and led by play therapists Julia Weimer and Lucas Valitski. To learn more and register your child, contact Julia at juliaweimertherapy@gmail.com or 610-209-2202.

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07/04/2025

Mental health retreats harness neuroplasticity through activities that encourage the brain to form new neural pathways, promoting emotional resilience and lasting change.

Discover how mental health retreats can transform your brain's wiring and enhance well-being. Read on to explore the science behind these healing escapes.

07/03/2025

Mindful Moments Mini-Workshops for children ages 5-7. Play, movement, nature, and fun!

07/03/2025

Do you have a child between the ages of 5 and 7? If so, the Mindful Moments series of mini-workshops is designed specifically for them and promises to be sweet and uplifting. Therese Daniels and Julia Weimer are therapists whose work integrates play therapy, nature, mindful movement, and fun. Contact information to learn more is in the flyer below.