Therapeutic Massage of Williamsburg

07/24/2025

Check out my beautiful friend Susan Walkley and her services!

07/15/2025

https://youtu.be/h3kBSF04Owk?si=3KT2vQ6ZIX9VAwmr

This Channelled sound healing and light language transmission was recorded in Peru’s Sacred Valley, on a sunlit morning surrounded by birdsong and the ancien...

07/14/2025

Happy Monday! Let's clear the space with some beautiful music to play as you work or take quick breathers.

Xoxo

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07/14/2025

Thank you for this important reminder from our local Tailwinds Ranch here, serving veterans who suffer from PTSD.

Do you know anyone who needs them? They are amazing people with an incredible program.

Xoxo
Anna

Self Care- Hiked 22 miles in three days…. Small steps, slow down, notice the small gains, and for me and my clients, walk. Last month, I found myself operating outside of my window of tolerance. I was irritable, checked out, impatient, unmotivated, overwhelmed, and at times, dissociated. I knew that this was not sustainable. When we are outside of our window of tolerance (WoT), our behaviors and emotions affect those around us, both at home and at work. It’s more arguments with our partner, finding ourselves more reactive with family, avoiding situations, dissociation (checking out/numbing), not sleeping well or sleeping too much, and getting the “F*$k it's!”
A bit like a PTSD reaction- my conceptualization is that when outside the WoT, the amygdala gets exhausted from alarms and decides everything is an alarm, because it doesn’t get a regroup break (Think of the movie Inside Out. My visual is of one of the characters sitting at the controls exhausted, head down, just continually hitting the alarm button). Self-care means finding your way back into the window of tolerance, opening space for daily stressors not to throw you over the edge. It’s not bubble baths and reading a book for me, not when I’m this far out of my window. Those things can help me maintain when I’m back in… But for now, it’s losing myself in nature, hiking as meditation, unplugging from electronics, work, and expectations, and regrouping. It’s hiking for miles and letting life stressors be washed away with sunlight, trees, and rock scrambles. It’s realizing that there are still 2.5 miles to hike up to get out of the Grand Canyon, and my legs are so tired, it’s hot at 7 am already, and there is no choice but to keep walking. It’s learning tricks from my hiking partner, being teachable! “Slow down, small steps, relax your muscles, feel the softness of your muscles as you take each step.” THIS! The anxiety stopped. It felt like therapy: slow down, notice the small gains, relax to give yourself momentum…sounds counterintuitive. Still, with each step, I gained energy and confidence, lost the anxiety, and left behind the stressors that I had been carrying. Small steps, relax, develop realistic and doable plans, take time, build in breaks to be more present.
Why did I push to 22 miles? IYKYK. The 22 miles was a statement, a recognition of veterans and suicidal ideation and attempts. How does one get to that point? We work with this every day here. And what I find is that many times it starts with being outside of our Window of Tolerance, the stress/activation level where one functions well and can handle stressors. Living outside of that zone for long periods can kick in a sense of wanting the feeling to end, to escape, feeling like it will never end. It will, with work. Small steps, relax, slow down, notice the small gains, and for me and my clients (who know walking Flash/EMDR for relaxation), walk.

07/11/2025

Amen!!

07/06/2025

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06/29/2025

https://youtu.be/F0S6Yzc2ESw?si=9aMIMOCxHQg4FkKr

Pamela Anderson is a modern day multi-hypenate. When she's not working in her capacity as an actress, you might find the 57-year-old embracing the slower lif...

06/26/2025

Cuteness!

06/25/2025

"Your skin isn’t just a barrier- it’s actually a solar receptor, and uses red light, infrared, UVA, and UVB to trigger hormonal responses like:

Melatonin (yes, during the day)
Vitamin D production
Cortisol and leptin regulation
Skin-based thyroid signaling (via α-MSH & nitric oxide)"

Being out in the sunlight is so healing, but remember what latitude you are genetically built for. Snow white peeps like me? Not Virginia. My skin was built, over 20,000 years, for the foggy and cloudy skies of Scandanavia and West England, so I avoid high noon and save myself for early morning and evening walks.

But I do take short sips of afternoon sun whenever possible, so my eyes and brain and skin know what time it is.

Xoxo
Anna

06/24/2025

This is a brilliant idea…

06/23/2025

https://themodernnonna.com/strawberry-protein-shake/

Every morning, this is my jam lately!
Only I add a handful of fresh basil from the garden + a splash of french vanilla coffee creamer.

Enjoy!
XOXO
Anna

Whip up a protein-packed strawberry shake that’s as delicious as it is nourishing—perfect for busy mornings or a post-workout treat! 🍓🥤