Mindful Wellness Center of Texas

10/27/2025

A true story on Divine Intervention:

BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. on the door.
We all three nearly jumped out of our skin.

A frantic voice called out, “Hello? Hello?? I need a psychiatrist! Is there a psychiatrist here?”

Renee stood up immediately. I turned to my friend, Mihya, whose eyes were as wide as mine felt. The woman who had stormed in had her Medicaid provider on speakerphone. She was standing in the hallway, saying she was in pain, still asking for a psychiatrist.

Renee walked out and tried to get information as quickly as she could.
“Is there an emergency?”

“No, I’m in pain, and I saw wellness on the sign outside. I thought maybe there was a psychiatrist in here who could help me talk to my insurance about my psych meds.”

Hearing no emergency was enough for Mihya and me to exhale and stop bracing for a crisis.

If you know me, you already know what happened next. I heard I’m in pain, and my ears perked up. I walked out into the hallway and asked the same question I ask everyone:

“Are you in pain now?”

“Oh, every day of my life.”

“What’s your pain level right now, zero to ten? Ten is please shoot me.”

“About an eight.”

I turned to Renee without hesitation. “Renee, can we please borrow your table?”
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10/25/2025

You don't have to suffer alone. I can't tell you how many times I ask people, "On a scale of 1-10, what's your discomfort level right now?" And they give me a, "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh, about an 8."

AND YOU'RE JUST WALKING AROUND LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME?

*Sprays with water bottle* No. Absolutely not. If you're dealing with chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, or nervous system dysregulation that's stopping you from fully enjoying your life, please email abby@mindfulwellnesscenteroftx.com and let's figure out when we can get you in for a ZPI session.

My schedule is a little more flexible than usual for the next two weeks, so if you don't see a time that works for you on the booking calendar, try speaking with me directly via email, and I can take care of booking for you. (This is always an option.)

There is no bigger joy for me than getting someone down to a 0/10. Sometimes it happens in one session. Sometimes, we can make it down to a 4 or a 2 in the first one, but regardless, getting that number down is my goal.

Let's get you on the schedule and see what we can do. Direct ZPI booking link:
https://mindfullwellnesscenteroftx.floathelm.com/booking/with/11442131/for/1212869

10/21/2025

TL;DR: Pretty please help me fill out a quick Google form for my research, and I’ll enter you into a drawing for a free 1:1 30-minute sound therapy session or a free ticket to one of our monthly sound baths, your choice!

https://forms.gle/dQMPzpbXY7XFfNvE7

It's Abby, co-director at MWC here in Denton. If we haven’t met yet…

I see clients for energy healing (please do come if you’re in chronic pain as I specialize here, and I can help; ask me about ZPI), integrative health consults (for when you finally want real, clear answers to chronic struggles), and sound therapy sessions (if you’d like to relax and let sound waves sweep the overthinking right out of your head).

I also run our group programs, including monthly sound baths and plant workshops.

Speaking of, I’m an herbalist who really, really loves plants.

My botanical energy healing sessions bring my love of plants into 1:1 work. My workshops are the same medicine shared in community, which is my favorite way to teach and connect.

For the last year, I’ve been nurturing an idea to expand that love farther: a book of herbal folklore and embodied healing. It’s part reference, part guide, and part storybook, designed to help you connect with plants for emotional growth, self-understanding, and gentle inner healing. The aim is to help people move from noticing or intellectualizing their pain to truly experiencing healing from it. Through what I call therapeutic storytelling, grounded plant practices, and gentle, trauma-informed reflection, it helps us rewrite old protective patterns and reconnect with the parts of ourselves still longing to be seen, held, and nurtured.

So, I have a little favor to ask. I’d be so thrilled if you took a few minutes to fill out this short survey to help me identify the most pressing, widely felt needs in our community.

Your responses will help me shape upcoming workshops, refine my 1:1 sessions, and even guide the writing of this book. I would be so, so, so grateful for your insight.

As a thank you, everyone who fills it out will be entered into a drawing for a free 1:1 30-minute sound therapy session or a free ticket to one of our monthly sound baths, your choice!

Your time and reflection will help me support our community (and hopefully reach many more through the book!) in growing, healing, and reconnecting with the plants that love us so much, each other, and ourselves. Thank you in advance!
https://forms.gle/dQMPzpbXY7XFfNvE7

Hi! I’m Abby, co-director at Mindful Wellness Center here in Denton, TX. I’m an herbalist and energy worker, and I’m currently gathering insights to help guide community workshops, refine my 1:1 sessions, and support a book I’m writing about emotional healing with plants. This survey takes ~...

10/13/2025

We’ve been plotting behind the scenes for months now. Planning, meditating, refining, and here we are… recording episode 1 of Tending the Tenders: A Restorative Podcast for Helpers and Healers. We are so incredibly excited to bring our whole hearts to you via our voices. All this heart-centered energy has to move, after all!

We’re Abby and Tabitha, soul sisters and co-directors at Mindful Wellness Center in Denton, TX, walking this path of purposeful, heart-led living together.

We explore ways to reconnect with our inner healer, to navigate the joys and challenges of caring for others, and to live out our Good Work in the world while savoring the journey along the way.

This clip is pretty indicative of our relationship. A little serious, a little goofy, and always willing to dive deep when it matters.

Release date incoming, so stay tuned. We are so excited to share more and more.

10/03/2025

Thought it might be time for a review drop. 😁 This is what I live for.

Little me is so over the moon that we can do something about the suffering we see in the world.

I love you, little one. And I love all of you!

💕 Abby

10/02/2025

If you’ve been bouncing between ER visits, specialists, and other health and wellness professionals for months—or even years—feeling off, we want you to know you’re not alone.

Abby offers integrative health appointments that combine the best of modern, functional medicine labs with holistic, individualized care. A word from Abby:

"Honestly, there’s pretty much nothing I enjoy more than getting a client’s intake forms and past labs back, diving in with my nerdy, pattern recognition powers, and finally giving them the answers they’ve been searching for. Sometimes I have to pause myself before I email them, 'YAY DON'T WORRY, WE CAN TOTALLY FIX THIS!' 😆 I usually do it anyway… ahem.

But really, it's because most often, it comes down to just 5 or 6 simple changes that can help someone start feeling so much better so quickly!"

If you’ve been waiting for a place to finally get clear guidance and real results, let’s make that happen. Your health is worth it. 💛

Learn more here:

Start Your Healing Journey With Abby My Philosophy I don’t believe healing comes from rushing to fix yourself. True healing happens when you slow down enough to really meet yourself—sometimes for the first time.That process isn’t easy to do alone. Not because you need a healer to save you, but...

09/30/2025

Inhale: “I’m here. I’m present.”
Hold.
Exhale: “This will pass.”

Let your breath remind you that every moment is arrival and loss.

As you breathe, notice one unrepeatable thing. Your loved one’s voice in a moment, the sound of thunder, or even the way your chest rises.

Every single moment will never be again. Allow the grief of passing time to meet the love of its presence.

Don’t push this grief away. Feel it fully. It hurts because you love.

I hope to see you at our Cacao Ceremony & Somatic Grief Release THIS Sunday evening at 6:30pm.

Grief is not something we move past. In our experience, it’s something to move with . Like a rubber band stretch, it pulls us into the places that ache, yet it also propels us into growth and deeper aliveness. Together, in this ceremony, we will honor grief as a sacred passage that can soften, tra...

09/24/2025

Once, back in 2019, I was zoned out driving seventy miles an hour on a two-lane highway when a loud thump snapped my attention to the front bumper on the passenger side.

A cardinal had flown straight into my car. In that split second, I caught the last flap of its wings before it drifted lifelessly back toward the shoulder. I gasped, tears streaming instantly, with an audible “No!” And then the only words I could find tumbled out: I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.

That small, tragic moment has stayed with me, and not because I could have done anything differently or because I believe it was my fault, but because of what it has shown me.

Our pain often works like that collision. When we're lost in unconscious wounds or protective patterns, we think we're only hurting ourselves, but pain never stays contained. It ripples outward. It touches the people around us—sometimes the ones we love most—even when we don’t mean for it to. Even when we don’t realize it’s happening. Even when we aren’t aware of the wounds at all, because numbing has become easier than noticing.

There comes a point in every healing journey when the veil lifts and we finally see the weight of our pain—not just on ourselves, but on others too. That realization carries its own kind of grief. And grief is necessary, because grief is how we honor impact.

But grief isn’t the end. Awareness also brings choice. Once we see clearly, we can choose differently. We can lay down the patterns that perpetuate harm and begin to move more consciously, more gently. We can cultivate practices that ripple outward as healing instead of hurt.

After that day on the road, I bought a bird feeder and a bird bath. Every morning since, I’ve fed the birds, giving gratitude to God and to them for the joy of watching them live. In some small way, that one cardinal’s death has gone on to sustain hundreds of others. And now, six years later, I feed them with my son, teaching him compassion, empathy, and stewardship of the living world.

We can't undo the collisions of the past. We can't stop our pain from ever having caused harm. We can't erase its impact. But we can honor it by how we move forward—by noticing instead of numbing, even when noticing stings. By choosing to stay awake and attentive to our inner life, and to the ways we affect others. By ensuring that what radiates out from us is not more pain, but the fruit of our healing.

~Abby

09/22/2025

Abby, here.

There was a time when my nervous system was stuck in survival mode, looping trauma responses on lather, rinse, repeat. I couldn’t imagine anything truly changing.

What I’ve learned since then, and what I now share through my 1:1 and group work here, is that nervous systems don’t heal with giant leaps. They heal with small, consistent, honored actions. One choice at a time. Over time, that grows into capacity. Into self-trust. Into hope.

That’s why I believe nervous system healing matters not just for individuals, but for families, communities, and the collective. Because when one body learns to regulate, it ripples outward.

This Friday morning, I’ll be speaking with the Denton Area Wellness Coalition (DAWC) on “Nervous System Healing for Collective Change.”

I’ll be sharing why this matters so much to me personally, and why I believe this kind of healing is how we begin to create a better world together, starting with Denton.

There are apologists for top-down and bottom-up healing alike, but as always, I'll advocate for a third option:

💛 Healing begins at the center, at the still point in the home of your heart and spirals outward. Always.

09/18/2025

Bummed you were going to have to miss this? Good news, we've rescheduled! We'll meet Sunday, October 5th at 6:30pm.

http://mindfulwellnesscenteroftx.com/events/cacao-ceremony-somatic-grief-release