Kindred Tree Healing Center

12/19/2025

The darkest nights of the year and the start of winter is nearly here, Kindreds! ❄️🌚🕯️🌞

We’re inviting everyone to build yourself a cozy nest with your particular nervous system in mind: what physical items or inner mindset might you surround yourself with if you could take time each day to hunker down and enjoy your surroundings? 🪹🤲🏽🥰

There’s a few essentials most people can agree on: soft blankets, perhaps a warm mug of tea or other non-caffeinated drink, soft lighting…some may enjoy a good book, a furry companion, a coloring book or other creative task. Others might like a board game with friends, a comfort movie, or soft music playing. Whatever sounds just right to you to create a cozy scene, we invite you to slow down, and spend time in your nest!

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12/17/2025

❄️ At the beginning of winter, societal expectations demand that we rush through the solstice and the days that follow to overextend our energies and create more output than we take in input. Instead, we encourage everyone to turn inward, reflect, and receive. 🤲🏽

🎄 Rather than race to prepare for the holidays and collapse once we manage to get through it all, consider what it might be like to just be with one’s self, even for just an hour per day (and it doesn’t have to be a full hour- try breaking it up in smaller increments of time throughout the day). We invite everyone to use the time to rest (no screens), journal, light a candle and meditate upon the end of the darkest nights of the year. Join us as we prepare to go within, and notice what you might need in these moments. 🕯️

12/15/2025

Winter isn’t officially here yet, kindreds, but brrrr! ❄️ It sure feels like the winter season is here in the Northern Hemisphere! 🥶 With this in mind, remember that humans are animals, too, and we need to engage in our own kind of hibernation, even when society tells us to stay busy! Consider the wisdom in gathering your resources, going inward, taking a long rest, and then emerging only once Spring has invited us into renewal. The calendar new year and the seasonal new year are very different- there are so many benefits to living in rhythm with nature! 🌲🩵🤲🏽

12/14/2025

The Kindred Tree’ple podcast has a whole new season coming out very soon! But if you’re wanting some poignant winter wisdom find this old episode- it will help support you this winter!❄️

It’s time for another episode of the Kindred Tree’ple Podcast! Episode 6: Winter Survival Wisdom!
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This week our host and Kindred Tree Healing Center owner, Vanessa Durrant, shares all about living intentionally in the Winter season! She takes us “back to the basics” of how our ancestors lived in relationship to nature, and how this helped them cope with the natural difficulties of the coldest season.
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12/12/2025

We’re thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration between and .integrative coming in January 2026! This all-day workshop will be offered at our location, in a trauma-aware community space, where participants are invited to soften into presence, rediscover their natural creativity, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom that lives within and between us.

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12/11/2025

🥳So many fun things happening at Kindred!
Congratulations to our latest advanced Reiki graduates, Sarena, Sophie, Anna, and Katrina- who just completed Advanced Restorative Reiki! Delighted by their journey of deeper clinical knowledge, empowerment and growth. ✨🤲🏽🌳

12/10/2025

Are you curious about how to integrate tarot into your mental health journey? Are you open to a grounding energy that you can return to again and again throughout the next year? Do you want to get nerdy with like-minded people about archetypal psychology? Check out our first workshop of 2026! Lead by Vanessa Durrant, LCSW-C, and Anna See-Jachowski, LCSW-C, this workshop will happen at our location!

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12/09/2025

Announcing a MONTHLY offering! Reiki, Meditation, and Journaling will be offered on the 1st Saturday of each month at our location! Lead by Katrina Cutshall-Clark, LCSW-C and Reiki Level 3 Practitioner, this workshop is for those who have had ANY level of reiki experience and are open to receiving support and engaging in reflection.

12/08/2025

We all relate to our sense of spirituality in many different ways. What most can agree on is that we need these guiding practices to be in touch with our spirituality:

🌲 Connecting with Nature can be an act of tending to ourselves and being in relationship with the world around us in a supportive, loving way.

⛹🏽 Engaging in regular PLAY is important for people of all ages! Expressing yourself through art, music, dance, sports, games, comedy, and more helps support kids and adults in not taking life’s pressures too seriously, and moving emotions and sensations through us in safe ways.

🧘🏼‍♂️While we’re big believers in the power of connecting with others at KTHC, we must also spend some time in connection with ourselves! This is often achieved in rare moments when we make an effort to be in peaceful solitude.

📝 Reflection can be achieved in those quiet moments through meditation, journaling, prayer, or a mindfulness practice. Take the time to acknowledge the ways in which you have grown in the last year, and BE with that before setting goals for the new year. Everyone deserves to acknowledge and celebrate what makes them feel proud!

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12/03/2025

🌲🧠🩵 December is upon us, kindreds! With winter and the holidays fast approaching, and geopolitical stressors at an all-time high, many are already feeling burnt out or on the precipice of burnout. Follow us this week as we share tips for healing from burnout for the body, mind, and spirit. Today, we cover MIND:

📴 Take a break from ALL screens- a real, intentional break! Whether it’s for several hours or a full day or two, step away from scrolling mindlessly on phones, binge-watching TV, gaming or browsing on tablets, etc. Pick up a book, play a board game, practice drawing or another creative activity. Your brain will thank you for going analogue for a little while!

🫂 For many, December is a time of gathering with loved ones. For some, their loved ones are blood family, while others are chosen family and friends. At KTHC, we live and practice the value of CONNECTION, and we hope you all seek connections that feel supportive, safe, and meaningful.

👂🏽Talk less, listen more- we all have important things to share with our kindreds as the year comes to a close. Are we making sure that we’re really hearing what matters most to those we care about? Notice if you can remember what your loved ones are spending their time and energy on, and make a point to ask about these topics and listen when you spend time with them.

🎧 Binaural Stimulation refers to music or beats that one listens to to help reduce anxiety, improve sleep and focus, and increase calm. This is achieved by alternating sound waves between the right and left ears- usually with the use of headphones- in a way that supports brain waves and functioning. For more information about how to intentionally use binaural stimulation, seek guidance from a qualified therapist!

🙅🏽‍♀️What are your sensory ‘don’ts’? For many, sensory overstimulation can be loud noises, itchy fabrics, too much socialization, bright, fluorescent lighting, and more can negatively affect a person’s ability to think and function well overall. Maybe your sensory ‘don’ts’ look different, and that’s okay! Curate your spaces to be sensory-friendly for you.

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12/01/2025

If you’re feeling like you’re on the edge of burnout or way past the edge, we have some important tips for you, kindreds!

🤲🏽 Yes, REST is important to the process of healing from burnout, but rest takes on many forms, not just sleeping or laying in bed. Rest can also look like saying no when necessary- to our loved ones, work or creative cohorts, and even ourselves!

🌳 Movement, at whatever pace and intensity level is right for you and your body, is an important part of supporting your body’s systems and chemistry, especially during the colder months!

🩵 The holidays often mean that our rituals and routines around food and hydration are disrupted, with more celebratory food and drink- which in our culture, often means more inflammatory foods, alcohol, etc. Try taking in more grounding foods and increasing hydration between celebrations, or abstaining from foods or drinks that do not support your overall health and wellness when it feels safe to do so.

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11/29/2025

Being in safe, healthy relationships with those you choose to have in your life is a cornerstone of community. Nature IS a part of our collective community! When we lovingly tend to our relationship with Nature, we are respectful of the Land’s cycles. We buy produce in-season, we shop at local, Indigenous-owned businesses to give back to those who honor the seasons.

We hope you are spending this weekend connecting with all of those friends and family that you love, kindreds!

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