Wise Oak Counseling

04/22/2023

04/10/2023

Hello everyone! just reaching out to share more about the type of work I do. I am a longtime body worker and yoga teacher who has transitioned to body psychotherapy since the pandemic.
I am offering a 10 session package called a Nervous System Reset path. This gives clients a $300 discount from solo sessions.
The nervous system reset path has its origin in Polarity Therapy, which I practice. The components are mindfulness based body psychotherapy, (clothed) bodywork, movement or yoga, and nutrition.
Mindfulness body psychotherapy is influenced by my studies in Hakomi, Sensorimotor and Gestalt therapy.

Bodywork is influenced by my studies in Cranio Sacral therapy, Acupressure and Polarity Therapy. Some talking may be done on the table about feelings that are coming up.

Yoga or movement practice will be linked to the area of the body the client is most interested in. As a practitioner of polarity and Chinese medicine there are Meridians and chakras in the body that give us much material to work with.

Nutrition counseling is based on my training with Paul Pitchford in healing with Whole Foods at Heartwood Institute. After a thorough consultation, foods will be recommended that bring balance to the body and the 5 elements within classical chinese medicine context.

Clients are invited to work with a specific theme or issue for the ten sessions.
Please refer any clients that you believe would benefit from Somatic work. Here is a link to my website. Thanks!

08/19/2022

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝘀 NOT 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 — 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀.

It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.

Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

What is relevant is that YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life — where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.
Your body is not your offering. It’s just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day.

Don’t curse your paintbrush. Don’t sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. You’re wasting time. You’ve got the one you got. Be grateful, because without it you’d have nothing with which to paint your life’s work. Your life’s work is the love you give and receive — and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soul’s behalf. It’s a system.

We are encouraged to obsess over our instrument’s SHAPE — but our body’s shape has no effect on it’s ability to accept and offer love for us. Just none. Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we don’t have to get to work painting our lives. Stop fretting.

The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine — and anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something. Don’t buy. Just paint.

No wait — first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body — right now. Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you. Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU. Paint this day beautiful, bold, wild & free.

Glennon Doyle, Momastary
Art by The Ronald West Gallery

07/16/2022

Mt. Fuji Reflecting in Lake Tanuki,Japan

07/01/2022

The first rule of success in many things is simply to show up. ✍🏻

bstulberg on Twitter

06/25/2022

by Introvert Doodles 💩

06/24/2022

❤️ “Just because someone carries it well, doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy”.