Rise Wellness Center

01/05/2024

Searching for community and support on your health journey? You’re not alone!

Join the next Chronic Illness Counseling Group for anyone navigating illness, pain, or ongoing health symptoms. Starting February 21st at 4:00-5:30pm, we’ll meet weekly to share experiences, insights, and skills for living well.

This is a welcoming space to find connection, understanding, and practical tools - facilitated by a therapist with lived experience with chronic illness. Topics include coping with uncertainty, honoring emotions, mind-body awareness, communicating needs, internalized ableism, and more. You’ll gain new perspective and walk away less alone.

No matter where you are on your health journey, you belong here. Group is kept small and interactive.

Only open to Colorado residents. Limited spots remain!

Learn more about joining the community and reach out via our website www.therisewellnesscenter.com/groups

The Rise Wellness Center offers somatic counseling services for children and adults in Colorado. Our center specializes in working with chronic illness and chronic pain.

12/12/2023

I came across this holiday gift guide for chronic illness. It is targeted towards people with hypermobility/EDS but has tons of good ideas for overall pain management and wellness resources for spoonies: https://jeanniedibon.com/hypermobility-holiday-gift-guide/?inf_contact_key=d640380a92d2664a7f17ab7599304388680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1&fbclid=IwAR3xiHg0MzMLPDBGBBjY1ecboKnYItaxEQsSYEd8cYpRuj6hC09noqzIaoo

We’ve compiled this comprehensive list of holiday gift ideas for the hypermobile people in your life curated by members of The Zebra Club Community.

09/07/2023

If you live in Colorado and are in need of KN96 masks I just learned of an organization disturbing them for free to individuals or communities in need. You can visit www.covidsafecolorado.com to request them :)

Welcome!

08/09/2023

Exciting news for the Colorado community! Our next 8-week Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain Counseling group is now enrolling! This is a virtual space to navigate challenges, heal, and grow in community.

🗓️ Starting: October 2nd, 2023

🕓 Time: 4:00-5:30pm MT

📍 Where: Online (Zoom)

Whether you're seeking understanding, a space to share, or strategies to thrive, this group brings us all closer. Limited to 8 participants. Visit my site to learn more and reach out to schedule a 1:1 call with me! www.therisewellnesscenter.com/groups

07/20/2023

"Joy. A three-letter word that is so simple and short, and yet, experiencing joy often feels complicated.

Through my study and work in Karuna Training, I’ve seen joy as a spectrum, from contentment to ecstasy. There’s a wide range in there - celebration, happiness, satisfaction, playfulness, delight, wonder, and more. And, as Ross Gay says in the quote above, joy is not separate from sorrow."
- Miriam Hall

Join Karuna Faculty member, Miriam Hall on Saturday, August 26th at 10AM MT as she explores the complexities of harvesting joy. For more information and to register, visit: https://karunatraining.com/event/harvesting-joy/

05/12/2023

Today, I want to address a thought that often impacts those of us living with chronic illness: feeling like a burden. This feeling is deeply painful and isolating, but I'm here to tell you - You are NOT a burden.

Living with a chronic illness can mean needing extra support, care, or accommodations. It may mean days when you can't participate in activities as you'd like, or when you need to ask for help. But this doesn't make you a burden. It makes you human.

Every one of us has unique needs, and yours are just as valid as anyone else's. Requiring support doesn't diminish your worth or value—in fact, it emphasizes the strength in your vulnerability and the courage in your journey.

Remember, your worth isn't determined by how much you do, how productive you are, or how independent you can be. Your worth is inherent. It's in your kindness, your heart, your uniqueness.

Let's dismantle the harmful narrative that equates needing help with being a burden. Let's celebrate the strength in asking for support, and let's remind each other that we are all interconnected, all needing and giving support!

If you're living with a chronic illness, know this: You are valued. You are worthy. And you are NOT a burden.

03/27/2023

i had a show in melbourne last night and hollllllly mother the energy in the theatre was so wildly elevated i felt all 2500 of us transported into pure love. i feel like we all walked away feeling unstoppable so i wanted to share this poem which gives me the same feeling. you are the sweetest most kindest and just ugh. i can’t get enough. meet and greet was insaneeeeely sweet. i’m still on cloud 9 this morning. australia thank you for such a warm welcome. i really love it here 🥺 brisbane i’ll see you tmw!

page 177 from ‘home body’

01/09/2023

I am now enrolling for my next chronic illness counseling group. This is open to anyone with chronic health symptoms, diagnosed or not!

Past participants have shared that they benefited from processing their emotions around their illness/pain, understanding more about what they want out of relationships, building stronger boundaries, improving self-advocacy skills, and feeling more empowered overall!

This group meets ONLINE for 8-weeks beginning Wednesday February 8 at 4-5:30pm. If you are interested in learning more contact via www.therisewellnesscenter.com/groups

12/13/2022

What if wellness meant learning to co-exist with joy and pain?

In human life, it's inevitable. We are going to experience wild joy and devastating loss. We are going to experience both the light and the dark. Perhaps the best thing we can do is learn to co-exist with these truths.

Suleika Jaouad speaks to this beautifully in her book Between Two Kingdoms, a memoir of her journey with cancer. She states, "what if I stopped thinking of pain as something that needs to be numbed, fixed, dodged, and protected against? What if I tried to honor its presence in my body, to welcome it into the present?" She shares that "healing is figuring out how to co-exist with the pain that will always live inside you."

These words feel relevant to both physical and mental health. To acknowledge that pain or illness cannot necessarily be cured but that you can still live a beautiful life alongside it. Wellness might feel unattainable from the way our culture traditionally defines it, but maybe what wellness actually means is learning to co-exist with both the joy and the pain in our lives.

09/27/2022

Came across this event and thought it may be a helpful resource! Let me know if you attend!

Please join me for the free talk I'm giving tomorrow night on SBRN's Empowered Speakers night: Navigating the broken social security and social welfare systems! You can register here: http://bit.ly/sbrn-empoweredconversations2022