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Trauma informed Counseling and Healing Centered Creative Expression.

12/17/2025

✨ Lunar Resonance: A Resonant Rest Ritual — New Moon Edition

Our January 10 ritual sold out quickly — thank you for the incredible response.

We’re opening a second gathering to honor the energy of the New Moon.

As the sky draws inward, we arrive in a space of rest.
Join us for intention setting, breathwork, restorative yoga, guided meditation, and a resonant sound immersion with Maria McIntyre — a soft, grounded way to begin again.

Bring comfy clothes and your coziest socks. Register through the link in our bio.

Space is limited.

12/14/2025

We carry light—ancient, tender, and entirely our own. Art helps us notice how it meets the world. Tending to that light is its own practice, letting what’s rooted in us steady itself and radiate outward.

This piece traces the quiet exchange between inner glow and outward form—the moment when what lives inside us begins to surface. The light drifts, gathers, and reshapes itself, reminding us that expression doesn’t need to be forced.

It only needs room.

Artwork by Corbly Brockman.

12/10/2025

12 Steps & Spirituality: Art Reflection Workshop
Begin the new year grounded, creative, and connected.

This workshop uses guided art-making inspired by the spiritual principles of the 12 Steps — honesty, hope, courage, faith, and more — to explore personal healing in a supportive, nonjudgmental space.

🗓 January 17
⏰ 4:00–6:00 PM
📍 Roots & Rays – Beverly
🎨 All materials included
💛 No art experience needed
💵 $75 · Registration required

Facilitated by Ellen Greene LPC, ATR-P ( blending two decades of professional art practice with lived experience in recovery.

👉 Sign up through the link in our bio
🌱 Support this work and help keep community offerings accessible by donating to our nonprofit

12/09/2025

Soft Fascination: Ecotherapy at Roots & Rays 🌿
Healing deepens when we reconnect with the living world around us.

Ecotherapy reminds us that we’re not meant to move through life disconnected from the rhythms that steady us. Research continues to affirm what our ancestors always knew: time in the natural world regulates the nervous system, softens overwhelm, and supports emotional well-being.

But beyond easing symptoms, ecotherapy brings us back into relationship — with ourselves, with each other, and with the ecosystems that hold us.

This piece, written by Colleen O’Sullivan, offers a gentle doorway into what ecotherapy is and why it matters.

🌱 Check out the full piece on our website!

12/07/2025

Flow State traces the moment when thought loosens its grip and instinct begins to guide the hand.

Colors drift, merge, and expand—reminding us that creativity often lives in the spaces where control softens. This serves as a quiet invitation to witness movement without interrupting it—an echo of the way clarity can emerge when we stop trying to hold it still.

12/05/2025

Lunar Resonance carried such a beautiful energy — soft, grounding, and exactly what so many of us needed.

If you were there, tell us your favorite part. If you weren’t, we hope these glimpses bring you into the room with us. ✨

12/03/2025

Winter asks us to slow down. 🌙

Join us for Rest & Root at 8 AM — a gentle restorative practice that nurtures stillness, rest, and release.
Come as you are, rest as you need.

RSVP/Sign-Up link in bio

12/02/2025

Giving Tuesday at Roots & Rays!
Help us keep creative healing accessible for our community.

Your donation supports:
✨ Sliding-scale therapy
✨ Community-based arts programing & healing workshops
✨ LGBTQIA2S+ youth programming
✨ The buildout of our woodfire kiln & ceramics programming
✨ The future of our healing space

This work is powered by people like you!

Help us create a future where art heals.
Give today by follwing the link in our bio!

12/01/2025

A Manifesto for the Creative — How to Create Like a Mother
Last week, (LCPC, ATR-BC) offered a reminder we all needed:
You are not small.
You are not separate.
You are a living edge of creation.

From Earth’s grounding, to fire’s spark, to wind’s breath, to water’s flow, to the cosmos humming in our bones—she called artists back to their origin story.

To create like a mother is to remember:
🌱 You are cyclical
🔥 You are powerful
💨 You are connected
🌊 You are adaptive
🌌 You are stardust in motion

Your imagination is a force of nature.
Your art is prayer.
Your life is testimony.
Return to your materials. Return to your breath.
Create like the mother of all things.

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11/19/2025

Healing happens in its own time… folks who do the hard work of healing often ask, “how long will it take for me to feel better?” And that’s a hard question to answer. Consistency is the key- continuing to show up for yourself and doing the work yields results. Here’s a reminder that the shifts occur both in the therapy space and within our daily practice. Artwork by annie novotny

11/18/2025

As the season turns, let your body soften.

Rest & Root (8 AM) is your space to unwind, release, and arrive fully in yourself.

🪷 Accessible · Trauma-informed · Community-held

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