Heart Stone Counseling

12/16/2025

Tuesday Tips ✨
Here’s your nudge to show a little kindness today — to yourself and to the people crossing your path.

Kindness doesn’t have to be grand. It can look like taking a breath before reacting, offering a genuine compliment, or giving yourself permission to not be perfect (because, spoiler: no one is).

Small kindnesses shift the whole day. Go start a ripple.

12/15/2025

Our Body Image Support Group is back this winter 💫
Our next 4-week Body Image Support Group starts January 15th — a space to explore your relationship with your body with compassion, not criticism.
If you’re tired of fighting with your body, feeling “never enough,” or getting stuck in comparison, you don’t have to do that alone. In this group, we’ll focus on:
Building a kinder inner voice
Understanding body image triggers
Practicing grounding + self-acceptance in community
Learn more and sign up here:
👉 https://www.heartstonecounseling.com/body-image-workshop-1
Know someone who might need this? Feel free to share 💛

Body Image Recovery Support GroupA restorative circle group for womenbiweekly Thursday evenings 5-6:15pm (75-minute session)967 Broadway South PortlandJanet Steady, MS, RDN, RYT-200 Complete Interest Form “The body is not an apology. It is not something to be fixed. It is not a flaw. It is a mirac...

12/11/2025

Welcome to Therapist Thursdays!
We’re kicking off this new series with someone very special — Emily Van Cannon, the founder of Heart Stone. In today’s video, Emily shares the story behind our name and the heart that shaped this practice from the very beginning.

Curious to learn more about Emily and her work? Visit:
https://www.heartstonecounseling.com/staff-directory/emily-vancannon

Stay tuned each Thursday as we highlight the incredible humans who make Heart Stone what it is.

12/09/2025

Tuesday Tips with wellness coach Janet Steady:

Ground and Stay Warm

Cold days, long nights and even holiday stress can leave your body and mood running low. Stoke your metabolism with warm, grounding meals — soups, a simple crock pot meal, roasted vegetables or a baked potato. Season with spices, some butter or olive oil, grated cheese, or a handful of nuts for lasting energy.
Meals don’t have to be elaborate to be fulfilling - use what you have and like - each bite offers connection and care.

12/08/2025

Reminder 🌟

The holidays can stir up a lot — especially grief. If you’re needing a gentle place to land, Cheyne’s Holiday Grief Expressive Arts Group is happening this Thursday, 12/11, 10am–1pm.

Through art, writing, and reflection, we’ll make space to honor your grief and your whole self this season. 💛

Register here:

Explore expressive arts therapy for grief, loss, and transition at Heart Stone Counseling in South Portland. Join workshops and support groups for healing through creativity.

12/04/2025

🎉 Say hello to Therapist Thursdays! 🎉

We’re kicking off a new weekly series where you can meet the amazing therapists who make our practice what it is. Each Thursday, we’ll feature a short video introducing one of our team members—what drives them, what they’re passionate about, and the heart they bring to their work.

It’s a simple way to get to know us a little better and maybe discover the therapist who feels just right for you.

Stay tuned!!

12/02/2025

✨ Tuesday Tips: Transitions & FLOW ✨

Transitions — big or small — can yank us out of the present and straight into stress-mode. Before you bulldoze into the next thing, try this quick 10-second grounding ritual called FLOW to bring yourself back into your body and the moment.

F — Feet:
Pause and feel your feet on the ground. Let the support beneath you register.

L — Legs:
Gently squeeze your legs with your hands. Notice the sensation.

O — Observe:
Check in with what’s happening inside — fast, slow, calm, buzzing, tense. No fixing, just noticing.

W — Wonder:
Look around and choose one thing to marvel at — a tree, a texture, the wild fact that cars exist. Let a little awe in.

A tiny reset like this can turn a slippery transition into a moment of presence. Give it a try today, especially when you’re rushing.

12/02/2025

Love this thought. 💜

11/25/2025

Our latest blog is about adapting and finding resilience in dark places — and why nature is such a good teacher this time of year.

→ Read “A Deep-Sea Shrimp’s Guide to Surviving the Season.” https://www.heartstonecounseling.com/blog/lessons-of-the-dark-and-slow

11/25/2025

✨ Tuesday Tips ✨
Before you charge headlong into the day, find just one moment to pause. Take a few full, deep breaths. Let the world around you come back into focus—your feet on the ground, your shoulders softening, the pace of life slowing just enough for you to step back into yourself.

Today’s offering is a reminder wrapped in poetry, inviting us all to move with intention rather than momentum.

Walk Slowly — Danna Faulds
It only takes a reminder to breathe,
a moment to be still, and just like that,
something in me settles, softens, makes
space for imperfection. The harsh voice
of judgment drops to a whisper and I
remember again that life isn’t a relay
race; that we will all cross the finish
line; that waking up to life is what we
were born for. As many times as I
forget, catch myself charging forward
without even knowing where I’m going,
that many times I can make the choice
to stop, to breathe, and be, and walk
slowly into the mystery.

May this be your cue today: pause, breathe, notice… and walk slowly into whatever comes next. 🌿

11/21/2025

The holiday season can be beautiful… and brutally hard. 💛

This year Cheyne is offering a Honoring Grief Workshop designed to help you move gently through this season with support, ritual, and space to feel what you feel — no pretending everything is “fine” required.

In this workshop, we’ll:

Create space to honor who and what you’re grieving

Use expressive arts and reflection to explore your story

Connect with others who get it

✨ We’ve also updated our pricing to make it more accessible

If this time of year feels heavy, you don’t have to carry it alone.
👉 Learn more and register here: https://www.heartstonecounseling.com/expressive-arts-grief-workshop

You’re welcome exactly as you are — tender, grieving, and human.

11/18/2025

Today's Tuesday Tips: You know how to heal.

Whatever pain, sadness, grief or anxiety you may be experiencing…trust that there is some part of you that knows how to heal. Through honesty, reflection patience and love, that healing can be found.