Heart Center for Families: Yoga, Expressive Arts, and Trauma Therapy

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I will be volunteering here next weekend. Please help get the word to those who may benefit.

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We celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. And we love this country and this land. This does not make us radical activists. It is not revisionist history; it is INCLUSIVE. We learn history, and we carry the stories through generations, in order to self reflect as a people -and as a nation. Failure to do so does not make us patriotic or stronger or wiser, and certainly not compassionate or mindful. Failure to self reflect as a nation - failure to grieve transgressions and the ways ...in which the history of a people impact them today - failure to recognize and praise and extend gratitude for the many beautiful qualities and contributions - leads to stagnation and regression, rather than the sometimes gritty work of evolution and neurobiological integration. Here’s but one of many resources for Georgia. I’m happy to help you locate resources for your location. And I can offer several recommendations for books, documentaries, films, places to visit, groups to connect with, authors/speakers/guides to follow upon request. http://www.native-languages.org/georgia.htm

H.e.a.r.t. Center is SUPER excited to welcome Brittany Caylor to our team of experienced therapists!! From Brittany: Hello, I’m Brittany. I am a warm, authentic, open-minded clinician who values connecting with and learning from clients. I believe that meaningful change and healing can occur in supportive, therapeutic relationships, and I work with clients to identify areas they would like to better understand, change, or improve. I specialize in working with teens and pret...eens around life transitions, relationship issues, anxiety and mood disorders, trauma recovery, body acceptance, and grief and loss. I have bachelors and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Georgia and am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have more than ten years of experience working with children, teens, and families experiencing crisis and navigating traumatic situations. I partner with clients to create an individualized approach utilizing techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy, along with creative interventions based in art, music, mindfulness, and nature. I believe that all people have inherent value and worth and am affirming of all gender identities, sexual orientations, and cultures. I look forward to meeting you! https://georgiaonlinetraumatherapy.com/meet-brittany/

It all begins with knowing nothing lasts forever. So you might as well start packing now.... But, in the meantime, practice being alive. There will be a party where you’ll feel like nobody’s paying you attention. And there will be a party where attention’s all you’ll get. What you need to do is know how to talk to yourself between these parties. And, again, there will be a day, a decade where you won’t fit in with your body even though you’re in the only body you’re in. You need to control your habit of forgetting to breathe. Remember when you were younger and you practiced kissing on your arm? You were on to something then. Sometimes harm knows its own healing comfort its own intelligence. Kindness too. It needs no reason. There is a you telling you a story of you. Listen to her. Where do you feel anxiety in your body? The chest? The fist? The dream before waking? The head that feels like it’s at the top of the swing or the clutch of gut like falling & falling & falling and falling It knows something: you’re dying. Try to stay alive. For now, touch yourself. I’m serious. Touch your self. Take your hand and place your hand some place upon your body. And listen to the community of madness that you are. You are such an interesting conversation. You belong here. ~Pádraig O Tuama, How to be Alone

A succinct breakdown of IFS parts and trauma response. Where are you dominant now?