Y’all have probably heard, read, seen or have had first-hand experience with the benefits of meditation. Most can feel a sense of ease or calm after only a few minutes of focused attention on the breath or the body. But when meditation is ‘practiced’, which means it is something you regularly engage in for at least three times a week, the benefits can go beyond feeling calm. For instance, a 2014 clinical review of research found that meditation can improve conditions of hypertension, diabetes type 2 and high cortisol and encouraged more research in comparing meditation to therapeutic treatments like some medications.

Practicing mindfulness can help you shift from internal “why” questions and into your body’s sensations or experiences that are occurring in the present moment and this can give your brain the vacation it is craving. Curiosity can be the key to connect you to the here-and-now, improve relationships with others and yourself and release you from the annoying dialogue in your head.

Mindfulness can help us hold some of the heavy feels of 2021 by accepting the current environment as it is. Right now you might know people who are ill; right now you might be fearful of a party or travel plan being cancelled because you or someone else is sick. When we compound this reality with feeling disappointed our ‘normal’ 2019 lives have not returned along with stress around the rising cost of everything, hopelessness can easily set in.

Instead of making a new year's resolution to try a ‘diet’, take our group class to learn the best long-term individualized approach to nutrition rather than a short-term diet. Our group class will guide you to connect what foods help or hinder your mood, energy and mental clarity and shift your relationship with food to one that is nurturing and fulfilling.

Reset & Restore is a 6-week group nutrition class that focuses on mindful nutrition and lifestyle resets to help us feel more in tune with our connection to food, mood, energy, and mental clarity.

While individual therapy can help to uncover, integrate and even resolve early emotional regulation challenges, group therapy goes further to enlist the nervous system of others for co-regulation, attunement and comfort to express previously internally forbidden emotions. We have found that some of our people with depression, anxiety, and mood disorders can develop healthy emotional regulation, confidence and a sense of ease during periods of stress when they combine individual and group therapy.

The number of mindfulness studies have experienced a surge in the last 20 years—in 1999 there was hardly any scientific research in the field.

Mindfulness meditation is now regarded as an effective, evidence-based treatment that can improve symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.

Brain imaging research has shown that regularly practicing mindfulness is associated with beneficial changes in the activation of certain parts of the brain.