Heart Stone Counseling

09/25/2025

We’re so excited to host Brett Aldrich at Heart Stone this fall!
Brett is facilitating a 5-part Breathwork Series October 2nd-30th, taking participants on a journey through the senses, and a seasonal Mood & Food workshop on Nov 1.
Both events bring together Ayurveda, movement, and mindful practices for whole-body wellbeing. For more information and to register: https://seedthespirit.com/workshops-classes/

09/19/2025

Heart Stone is excited to be collaborating with outside providers offering creative and healing services to the community. Deb Arthur will be sharing an 8-week movement class called Foundation of the Turquoise Body. For more info: https://www.theturquoisebody.com/services-1

09/18/2025

Do you have tiny resets built in for yourself? Do you have your own personal ways to check in and make sure all systems are still go?
A few mornings ago, I stepped outside for a walk with my dog, not feeling super at ease. Some time with the morning moon changed things around for me.
Read the latest Heart Stone blog here: https://www.heartstonecounseling.com/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-ah4d6-xfj4b-c53hf

09/01/2025

In our latest (and only because it is our first🙂) blog, Emily reflects on the healing power of groups and why our stories, like water, flow downstream.

Read more here: https://www.heartstonecounseling.com/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-ah4d6-xfj4b

07/17/2025

Poet Andrea Gibson, a Maine native, passed this last week at age 49. In her poem, “Love Letter from the Afterlife,” she wrote, “Dying is the opposite of leaving. I want to echo it through the corridor of your temples. I am more with you than I was ever before.”

07/10/2025

It's another month of hosting Playback at Heart Stone!
Join Erin Curren of Solar Playback for a powerful afternoon at Heart Stone where real-life stories are transformed into spontaneous, moving theater. Through improvised performance, your experiences are honored, reflected, and brought to life with depth, heart, and creativity.

Sunday, July 13th
3:30–4:45pm
HeartStone Counseling, 967 Broadway, South Portland
$10 suggested | Family-friendly

What is this season a mix of? Come find out.

06/19/2025

We are so excited to have Erin Curren back at Heart Stone to perform this Sunday at 3:30 at the Treehouse Group space. She will be performing stories about Transitions shared by audience members. It's fun, special and healing. We'd love to see you!

I’m so pleased to be offering monthly in-person performances at Heart Stone Counseling in South Portland location throughout this summer. Join me on select Sundays from 3:30-4:45ish in the afternoon for this family-friendly event where true stories are shared and then honored through …

05/19/2025

We had a beautiful Open House on a beautiful day in Maine. Thank you to everyone who attended, donated, assisted, and performed. Extra shoutout to the Yarmouth Jazz Combo and to Erin Curren who performed "Small Beginnings" in the Treehouse Group Room. So much gratitude!

04/13/2025

03/18/2025

Does connecting to nature help the worries or dread? Lest we forget, we are also nature and connecting to breath, the rhythm of the rise and fall, can help connect us to all of the rhythms around us.

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry.

Annie Ovenden - Murmuration over Lanhydrock
Park, 2020.

03/16/2025

03/13/2025

A little spring refresh for our South Portland waiting room.