Mindful Matters Mind-Body Counselling

11/12/2025

What we give our attention to grows. Expanding our awareness actually creates new neural pathways in the brain. What do you want to grow more of in your life?
For me these days it’s Connection, Positivity, Patience. ❤️☀️🧘🏼‍♀️

11/12/2025

What we give our attention to grows. Expanding our awareness actually creates new neural pathways in the brain. What do you want to grow?
For me these days it’s Connection, Positivity, Patience. ❤️☀️🧘🏼‍♀️

11/03/2025

10/10/2025

The 2025 Mental Health Day theme is “Access to Services – Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies,” which stresses the importance of inclusive support during crises. It’s not just about physical aid; mental health services like counseling and psychological care are equally crucial. This day aims to create a safe space for individuals to share their struggles and seek help, promoting resilience and reducing stigma.

We need to hear each other and lean in to each other 💚

09/10/2025

As we come back to our fall routines, consider how and when you are making time in your schedule to connect with others and engage in your community. This is a key element to our overall health and well being.

Isolation and loneliness is actually dangerous to our health and is shown to double the rates of heart attack and stroke, depress our immune function, cause low stress tolerance, as well as increased rates of anxiety snd depression. Feeling excluded from groups and the community also triggers the same pain circuits as physical pain.

Search online, talk to your friends, family and coworkers about activities and events they are involved in, see what interests you and get out there and connect! Your heart and mind will thank you for it ❤️

09/02/2025

As the season changes, remember to allow yourself to slowly transition. Your nervous system needs time to adjust to the busyness of the fall routine, the cooler weather and the many emotions that come with this time of year.

If you were able to experience the slowness and lightness of summer, remember that was imprinted in your nervous system and your body and brain remember what that experience was.

So elicit a felt sense of it in the middle of your busy day and remind yourself that even in the busy times, we always have time to slow down, be present, look around, take a deep breath and enjoy the moment 🍃🍂 ☀️

08/13/2025

Somatic (SE) Touch helps the body recover from physical and emotional overwhelm.

For many people, traumatic experiences may not even be in their conscious memory, but they know that talk therapy is not helping.
SE Touch is a slow type of bodywork that provides neuro signals to the body to decrease the production of stress cortisol levels and increase the trust hormones such as oxytocin. The body is able to start to organize towards having more regulation and resilience in the nervous system and vital organs (viscera).

Kathy Kain emphasizes that “Somatic therapists need to be highly skilled in their capacities to understand as many of the body’s forms of communication as possible.”

To book a somatic touch session, click the link in the bio.