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Anna Gries Body Mind & Heart Therapy LLC, Rutland, VT (2025)

03/08/2024

Going through the motions of life without actually calling attention to what is going on isn’t actually helpful to you.

Our culture often perpetuates the “out of sight, out of mind” concept. Overlooking the very things we need to pay attention to, especially when it comes to mental health. There is an existing normalization to ignore what you cannot see which impacts those who struggle with any degree of their mental health.

Breaking this pattern of cultural engagement will require you to have a therapist who firmly believes in calling bull💩 on this cultural normalization. It will require you to engage with new practices that allow you to not only create better beliefs and understanding around your own mental health needs, but how to bring that out into the world, one relationship at a time.

Engaging in mental health therapy takes a great deal of effort, bravery, and consideration. But engaging in therapy within my practice will allow you to get crystal clear on how you want to be living your life, getting you out of just going through the motions, finding clear and fast ways to regulate your nervous system, and actually live your life robustly.

If you are realizing you no longer want to be playing into the cultural avoidance that is your own mental health care, reach out to my practice and get set up with a free consultation today.

02/26/2024

What an amazing long weekend! Officially completed the second phase of my beginner year and I am now officially an SEP Beginner Level Two. This process has been truly incredible. I am honored to be a part of my cohort. I’m already learning so much and seeing this with my clients in the areas we can tend to with this and the tools I have gained. Somatic work is a beautiful and tender practice, and one as a clinician I know I was meant for. Allowing to build a relationship with my own nervous system so I can tend to the nervous systems of others has never been more clear of a calling. ✨

02/21/2024

6 week group therapy AND yoga for parents/ caregivers! Starting May 1st I will be offering a truly unique experience for my clients: mental health therapy paired with yoga. This group is designed just for parents and caregivers who are in need of community and tools as you get ready to navigate Summer 2024. Stay tuned for more information on why this group will be unlike any other and what it will offer you and your parenting tool kit!

01/05/2024

The practice's Colorado wait-list is officially open! All of my CO folks: thank you for your patience! I will be reaching out within the coming days!

To any Coloradans or fellow Colorado clinicians looking for referrals for teletherapy, all potential clients can reach out today to request a consultation.

01/04/2024

Happy New Year!

12/22/2023

The practice will be closed beginning today through Jan 01. During this time I will be taking time away from the office to be with family and friends.

If you are looking to book a consultation you can still do so! Please follow the "request appointment" link and you can get on the schedule for January.

I look forward to connecting with you in the New Year!

12/21/2023

As winter is setting in and the holidays begin, you will often have more opportunities to connect with your friends and family.

You will be able to perhaps see family you haven't seen in some time, or connect with friends you haven't had the chance to see in months.

Connection is a vital part of how we operate as humans, and especially this time of year it can allow you to break the monotony that winter brings.

AND connection during this season can also feel overwhelming.

If you are finding yourself anxious for your impending gatherings, fatigued, easily drained, avoidant, annoyed or irritable, know you are not alone and it doesn't mean anything other than you now have an invitation to tend to yourself and your mental health a bit more.

A common concern I hear from my clients about this, is the guilt that can come from feeling this way. Being able to hold space for that guilt is important, AND allow yourself to move through that guilt (and all of the other feelings that are coming up) rather than feeling stuck there.

One way to do just that is by acknowledging that it's there AND not hold judgment of yourself. Remember to go slow, take your time, and take time for yourself.

12/06/2023

College life. It's a time for connection, learning, growth.

And as you come into that growth more questions come.

"Is this the right place for me?"
"Am I really getting the education I need?"
"Is this really what I want to do with me life?"
"Why does everyone else seem to have their 💩together?"

Can college can be some of the best years of your life? - Yes.

AND it can also be some of the most challenging .... it is after all one of the greatest lifetime adjustments you will experience.

And what if in that experience you sift through all of that uncertainty and still feel lost?

This is a natural part of the process, but it certainly feels more tolerable when you can have someone you trust, walk along side you as you're sifting through it all.

Part of my area of expertise, is not just working with folks who might be managing their anxiety, but managing their anxiety while they are going through a big life adjustment.

So if you are finding yourself here, approaching the end of your semester, or quarter of school and needing someone to help sort through it with you, reach out today to schedule your consultation. That way you can start off your next semester or quarter with a clearer vision of what you might actually want for your life.

12/04/2023

As human beings we are taught to ask questions to learn. Asking questions is one of our most powerful practices to gain knowledge and understanding.

But we are rarely, if ever, taught to turn inward and ask questions of ourselves.

This is powerful practice that you can easily begin implementing. Especially when phrased with intention for tending to your mental health.

How have you taken care of your mental health today?

If you are in need of more support, especially around this time of year, reach out and easily schedule a consultation so you can begin to create lasting practices for your mental health.

11/30/2023

Using just 2 words, there are multiple ways to describe this image:

No time.
Over-worked.
Feeling overwhelmed.

As you approach the end of the year, there can tend to be this push to get all the things done, especially when it comes to work.

In reality what’s actually happening here in 2 words are: poor boundaries.

That may seem like an over-simplification.

When your boundaries are flimsy you often see:

- meetings run way past the allotted time
- Emails coming in earlier in the morning or later in the evening
- Never getting off from work on time.
- Eating any /all of your meals in front of your computer/at your desk
- Having a mentality of “I don’t have time to take a break today.”
- Expectations to be *on* from an earlier to a later time into the night
- Ignoring your colleagues boundaries

When your boundaries are too loose, you need to ask yourself “what is it costing me to have poor boundaries?”

By not taking proper care of your relationship with your work it’s costing you:

Time.
Money.
Connection.
Peace.
Space.
Growth.

So ask yourself:

- What kind of relationship do I want to have with my work?
- What parts of me am I dismissing by practicing “over-working?”
- Where am I not upholding my own boundaries with myself or others?

Even if you never set out to over-work or be chronically overwhelmed as an intention, it can happen because you weren’t clear about what your boundaries are. This is not a bad thing, but as soon as you can create more clarity in what it is you want within the hard work that you do, you will be able to create practices that feel more in alignment with how you want to live. AND it will allow you to actually be in relationship with your work the way that you want to.

Let’s connect if you are finding yourself in this position and needing a space for processing this relationship with your work and a place where you will be held accountable so you can close out this year feeling grounded, clear, and certain about what your 2024 work life can look like.

11/21/2023

Working from home certainly has its perks.

11/16/2023

Entering into this training was not just so I could have a few more letters behind my name, but so that I can have even more somatic tools for my clients to HEAL. Over the course of this year and becoming a trauma-informed yoga teacher, I have seen first hand how physical practice supports my clients in healing. And so I delved further into the research and evidence to support my clients and this work.

I've long held a desire to begin a certification program like this, and am now on the path. While I train and learn over the course of the next few years, I have already begun integrating my training with my clients and witness them regaining their own agency and resource for healing.

I am privileged to do this work and honored to be a part of this healing.

If you have been looking for a therapist to heal your trauma, and have real-time, in the moment feedback on how to resource yourself as the healing tool, contact me today for a consultation to explore how you can access this through one on one therapy.

10/19/2023

When moments of intended connection get overcome by your own stuff, it ruptures the relationship.

Being in relationship with others is tough work. As a parent, you are not only creating haven and connection with your kids, you are also simultaneously navigating your own generational traumas and healing work.

When you get to bare true witness to what it is like to be activated by someone else you learn the greatest lesson: you get to be shown how much more work you need to do .

*And the real amazingness in all of this, is your kids are almost always going to have the ability to activate you in all of the ways.*

"Why is that?" Well this is because this is the healing work of generations. Whether you birthed your child in this world yourself, or not, you will be activated by them because they show up in you all of the work that you need to tend to that has been passed on to you for generations.

Let's take this picture for example... Look it over and really hold space for what is coming up for you.

Do you feel understanding for the parent-figure?
Can you feel their disgust?
Their annoyance?
Or the adolesent's annoyance?
The adolesent's confusion?

Can you witness similarities in your own experience? Can you witness your own personal narratives and judgements that may be coming through?

And if you can answer these questions, great, and if you can't that's great too.

What I teach my clients is that it's not about what you are currently able to do, or even what you think you are capable of. But about being willing. Willingness to explore where it is that you are showing up in your relationship and how your stuff is contributing to it.

If you want to be able to be in your relationships, and really *be* in them, where you learn to set your stuff down so you can be present for connection, and present for what you want to create with those you love, reach out for a consult today.

10/13/2023

Something I always ask my clients, when they come to me frustrated with their attempts to change some aspect about their lives, is "In what way is your language coloring your experience?"

The usual response I get is "well, I don't know..."

Language is a beautiful thing. AND it is something that folks rarely think about impacting their lives. Language is powerful; it shapes and colors our experiences. It is the very foundation for how we communicate in the world.

Language is especially powerful in the scope of therapy work because often times humans are rarely in the present moment. So that coloring is not only impacting the present, but impacting the future and even the past.

How you speak about your experiences support your thoughts, your feelings, and your beliefs about whatever your "thing" is. And if the very "thing" you are trying to change is caked in fear, resentment, shame, etc. then you will have an extremely difficult time changing *it* because you aren't tackling the language cakey- layers.

One thing you can do today, is start noticing your own behaviors and how you engage with language in your life.

If you want more tips and tools to master this, reach out for a consult so we can chat more about how to establish more lasting change with the support of therapy.

10/11/2023

If you've been watching any form of media and you are finding you are not OK, you are not alone.

You are mourning and trying to make sense of what is going on in the world. Trying to grasp understanding through actions that make little sense. And while that is going on, also experiencing secondary trauma to these events.

As these events will continue to unfold, there are things you can do to care for yourselves:

- limit how much information you are taking in- pay attention to when you choose to take this information in- perhaps not immediately when you wake up and not right before you go to sleep.
- *consider what type of learner you are: For example, if you are a visual learner and you want information, you may want to find sources you can read instead of watch to reduce the amount of visual trauma you are exposing yourself to.
- surround yourself with those you love; cuddle with your animals, your kids, even a stuffed animal.
- rest as much as you can.
- sleep and nap when you need it.
- regulate your nervous system.
- stay connected to yourself; journal, meditate, move your body with intention.

These small actions you can take for yourselves are small acts to reduce potential secondary trauma. Take care of you and let that ripple out into your community.

10/10/2023

Today is the celebration of World Mental Health Day; a day to not just look at how and where we can celebrate acceptance of and for mental health, but to also highlight the importance of *access* to mental health care. And on a day like today and the last few days, Mental health care is more important than ever.

Mental health matters.

Mental health is health.

And mental health care is for everyone.

On a day like today, it can be challenging to celebrate the idea of mental health care access as we witness continued traumas and mourn the loss of so many. So what I’d invite from you is lots of space to tend to yourselves, honor those who are seeking mental health care, cheer on those who want to, and do everything in your collective power to grant access to those who don't have it or who will be desperate for it in the coming days and months.

10/03/2023

I've been talking a lot lately about the importance of creating awareness through the use of mindfulness. But I have been getting a lot of questions from my clients around what the *best* mindfulness strategies are. And as a visual learner, well I love to teach with visuals.

So here is the thing, Mindfulness is a concept and the very definition of mindfulness per Oxford Languages is as follows:

1) the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.
"their mindfulness of the wider cinematic tradition"

2) a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

Certainly there are LOTS of mindful strategies that can assist to guide you to creating awareness, like:

- yoga
-breath work
- eating/drinking

But ultimately the above are catalysts for awareness building and are sparked by your desire for something different.

So there is no *best strategy*. (Sorry to burst that bubble).

But what there is, are lots of places for you to begin. That is really what it is about. Creating, starting, to engage in a new practice that allows for you to build the muscles you need to have more clarity within your life.

How are you practicing clarity within your life? What kinds of practices are you engaging in on a regular basis to create the awareness you are looking for? If you're unsure, reach out so we can connect and explore how to create this practice together.

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