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Heidi Schaul-Yoder Holistic Psychotherapy

Embodied, mindfulness-based psychotherapy. Ground, heal, and evolve with Heidi Schaul-Yoder, LP

06/25/2025

Today I’m 40 years old. There’s something about this moment that feels like a profound rite of passage. So many illusions of how I once thought life was organized have fallen away; so many old identities have shed themselves like cloaks that no longer fit. As I sit at the threshold of this new decade, something new and not quite defined is beckoning. It is QUIET.

The last few years have taken me down & under more times than I can count, and not for nothing…I now have the deepest appreciation for life on life’s terms, and I know now in my bones that something beyond my comprehension is gifting all of us the exact experiences we need to live out our purpose. It’s incredibly humbling to realize the limits of willpower and our attempts at control. I’m glimpsing the wide open space on the other side of striving.

As the Buddhists say, attachment is the root of all suffering. What a gorgeous journey it is to learn to let go, to let be, to appreciate the wild & mysterious twists & turns of life, the way we’ll all be dropped to our knees with both devastating loss & unimaginable blessings.

There is a place where the battle with life and with yourself ends, where surrender feels like power and not weakness, where nothing needs to be fixed and the ecstasy of being alive wraps itself around whatever each moment brings.

Thank you for being here ❤️

03/29/2025

I’d so love to see you at my virtual workshop next Sunday, April 6, 12-1:15EST.

Experiencing this work together live is so profound, but if you can’t make it you’ll receive a recording.
See my Linktree to register (and there’s a discount code through tomorrow, 3/30).

Let’s get empowered & free together 🚀
There’s no time like the present.

03/03/2025

I just returned from the most intimate and expansive yoga & somatics retreat in Costa Rica with and . I’m bursting with gratitude for such gorgeous teachers and teachings and for this wild land.

I’m back in NYC, but my spirit feels like it’s still in the jungle, being thoroughly cleansed by the heavy rains & buzzing cicadas & the nighttime perfume of the ylang ylang trees. I left so much there that needed to fall off of me, in deep connection with incredible women and in those sparkling turquoise waters. My cells feel revived & reawakened to what matters most — the pure dance of giving & receiving, of loving & being loved. Knowing there is so much we get to yield and soften into, so much these hearts and bodies yearn to express, and so much medicine in the reciprocal exchange of holding & being held.

We are never truly alone, and nothing is out of reach — the exquisite aliveness of the jungle reminded me that there is always beauty and possibility and support available, should we choose to open our eyes, gather the courage to move toward what we want and need, and allow our tender hearts to be deeply loved.

01/01/2025

2024 completely tenderized me, and I’m turning the page into this new year feeling like everything has paused for a moment in the most breathtaking way, like a shimmering blanket of snow. I feel a new clarity on what it means to exist in this human form, with all of the loss & heartbreak & temporality alongside the most extraordinary beauty, that we miss if we’re not truly, all-the-way here. How hard it is to human, and how incredible.

My wish for you & all of us in this new year is to receive it all. To not reject any part of yourself, or the world. To become like the vast sky that can hold the sun & the moon stretched wide apart, the lightning and raging thunderstorms and the most spectacular blue. To include all of it, and leave nothing out. Because it all belongs, including all of you.

01/29/2024

Just over here tripping out on some quantum field theory on this Monday morning 🔮🤷🏻‍♀️…but truly, we get to choose our own adventure in this lifetime. Don’t believe anything your mind says that doesn’t feel beautiful & expansive, and maybe see what happens if you take a moment to question it all.

12/06/2023

Sometimes we avoid feeling our feelings & contacting our pain because we want to “move on,” telling ourselves “the past is in the past.”

But all time is Now, and the only way to truly move on & release what we’ve been carrying is first to bring it into the light. Anything that’s in the shadows will continue to stalk & haunt us, until we gather the courage to turn around and face it.

Only then can we feel truly free ✨

07/25/2023

There are some experiences that solidify & confirm our own deepest learnings in this lifetime, and this past weekend’s retreat with was one of them.

I shared this quote by Gabor Maté, and these words keep drawing me in, closer & closer to a truth I now know in my bones but that was at one time so unimaginable: that we don’t have to live a life devoid of discomfort or pain or difficulty to feel safe. That the more held & seen we feel in any and every feeling, the less threatening any experience becomes, and we can just allow it all to move through us like waves in the ocean. That no feeling is actually a threat when we know we’re supported. That the only thing that’s truly terrifying is feeling that we’re alone and helpless.

I’m feeling so reinvigorated by the power of human connection and true, raw, unfiltered presence - there really is no greater medicine. So grateful for a day of no phones, of laughter, tears, movement, breath and the palpable relief that arises when we know we are right here, together.

04/10/2023

Gestalt therapy completely revolutionized my understanding of mental health, and opened my eyes to a framework that’s radical & life-affirming. I‘m now totally trusting & unafraid of any feeling (even the deepest fear & terror, shame, rage, etc are at home with me) - I don’t know what freedom is if not that.

I hope you know that you get to choose how you view your life & your mental health. Please don’t let anyone define that for you. Your perspective & belief system rules everything, so if your current framework makes you feel scared, small, stuck, or uninspired, it might be time to choose again.

03/13/2023

I’m excited to be offering a workshop on vicarious trauma tomorrow for the Chaplain residents at Brigham & Women’s Hospital - it’s such an important topic that means so much to me, and will no doubt be a lifelong exploration.

How can we avoid getting swept away by the tremendous waves of suffering we encounter, yet keep our hearts fluid & open to our shared humanity and truly, fully meet one another? How can we learn to root down into the deepest part of ourselves, and show up for our families, our communities & the planet from such a grounded, steady anchor that we infuse the world with a sense of abiding safety & love? I can’t think of anything our world needs more.

12/19/2022

How are you doing out there?

As we approach the Solstice, on this Scorpio moon day, just a reminder that no feeling is final & nothing is arbitrary. Hidden inside every uncomfortable feeling, there is gold waiting for you. There is a message your heart has been needing to hear, maybe for decades, locked away inside all the grief, the loneliness, the depression. So please don’t just wish it away, or conclude something unsavory about yourself, or go numb to what’s calling out for your soul to finally greet it. I promise that pain is never devoid of meaning, & that your body wants a life for you that you may not have dared imagine you deserved. Maybe it’s time to lean in, & listen to the wisdom that’s here for you.

11/23/2022

This week last year, a dear friend passed away. This is for you

I miss you. How easy it was to be with you. Your smile, your endlessly inquisitive mind, your generous spirit, but most of all the unrestrained joy that flowed from your being & affected everything and everyone you touched. The way you just KNEW that there was nothing more precious than that bite of the best dark chocolate, the particular care with which you placed your finger on the piano key, this very moment in the kitchen just laughing & being together.

As if you knew that life would be short. As if you knew that you needed to savor every last drop, to squeeze out all that you could, while you were still here.

I hope that life loved you back, as much as you loved it. I know how hard you were on yourself, and I hope you know how loved you were, and are.

Thank you for teaching me, in both your life and your death, how to stop in my tracks in utter awe & gratitude for all that is so briefly here.

This Thanksgiving, I’m overwhelmingly grateful for your presence in my life. I hope to live half as fully. ❤️

11/18/2022

Your tears are beautiful & sacred.

As we enter the holiday season, I hope you can let yourself feel. We hold so much in these bodies. Crying & deep feeling open us up to streams of insight & information that we will never receive through the mind alone, and without which we will inevitably feel empty & devoid of meaning. If we stay locked in our doing & thinking brains, always looking for logic & explanations, we’ll only ever touch a small fraction of who we’re here to be.

My hope is that we all feel supported to continually open to our limitless depth, with awe & wonder for all that we contain. I hope you know that your emotions are in no way an indication of anything wrong with you - but exactly the opposite: they are both evidence of and a direct, palpable connection to the powerful truth & wisdom you specifically hold for us all.

So plug into that power source. It’s here to show you, and all of us, the way 💜

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