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We combine all kinds of therapies to help you address the wellbeing of your whole self. As an

The Center for Healing Arts & Sciences is a mind, body, spirit wellness collaborative. Our unique integrative care model combines modern evidence-based practices with the ancient healing wisdom of eastern medicine, for the health and wellness of the whole being. We provide a safe, inviting place for our Houston community to receive several different styles of mental health treatment, acupuncture, cupping, holistic health and nutrition coaching from caring, licensed professionals. The Center is the manifestation of a dream to create an all-encompassing healing experience that is the first of its kind. Our healing practitioners combine years of experience in psychotherapy, education, eastern medicine, acupuncture, cupping, and health to deliver truly holistic integrative care. We bring our services to the community with public classes, educational workshops, and corporate wellness retreats and events.

02/27/2026

We’re back with another Food as Medicine Friday!

This week's recipe supports movement without depletion. It nourishes your body's deep reserves, stimulates Liver Qi (the system that moves you through transition), and provides steady energy without heaviness.

🥗Lentils with Hardy Greens 🥗

Ingredients (Serves 3-4):

1 cup green or brown lentils
2½ cups water
2 carrots, sliced
2 cups chopped kale or chard
Juice of ½ lemon
1-2 tbsp olive oil
Sea salt to taste

Instructions: Rinse lentils. Simmer in water for 20-25 minutes until tender. In the last 5 minutes, add sliced carrots. Drain excess water if needed. Stir in greens until just wilted. Finish with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt. Serve warm.

Why this works:

✨ Lentils build Blood and provide steady protein.

✨Carrots harmonize digestion and support the Earth element (your body's center).

✨Hardy greens like kale and chard move Liver Qi, the system governing spring transitions.

✨Lemon provides the sour flavor that stimulates early spring energy. Sour foods gently activate the Liver without overstimulating.

✨Olive oil prevents dryness as wind increases seasonally. Spring brings shifting weather and environmental dryness. Healthy fats protect your tissues.

Movement without depletion. Save this for later! 💚

02/26/2026

Whether winter felt like a year unto itself… or the seasons seem to be changing before you can fully settle into the one you’re in… here we are again at another seasonal transition.

In Chinese Medicine, spring is governed by the Liver system — the energy of growth, flexibility, vision, and forward momentum. It’s the time of year when things begin to move and stretch toward possibility.

When Liver Qi flows smoothly, you feel creative, adaptable, and able to navigate challenges without getting stuck.

When it’s stagnant, you feel that too.

Here’s how it can show up:
🌸You're irritable over small things. Quick to anger, short-tempered, snapping at people you care about. What helps: Deep breathing into your lower rib cage (the Liver sits here). Breathe in slowly, expand your ribs out to the sides, then exhale with an audible sigh. Sighing releases stuck Qi.
🌸You feel tense in your shoulders, neck, or jaw. The Liver governs tendons and ligaments. When Qi is stuck, your body holds tension. What helps: Gentle stretching. Yoga. Movement that creates suppleness without forcing. Walk more. Stretch daily. Your body needs to move Qi physically, not just mentally.
🌸You feel stuck, indecisive, or unable to move forward. Stagnant Liver Qi affects your ability to make decisions and take action. What helps: Small, consistent action. The Liver responds to movement: literal and metaphorical. Start with one small step. Break the inertia.
🌸Your digestion feels off: bloating, gas, constipation. The Liver and digestive system are intimately connected. What helps: Add sour foods (lemon, vinegar, fermented foods like kimchi).

Eat more leafy greens (kale, spinach, arugula). Avoid greasy, fried, or heavy foods that bog down an already sluggish system. 👀Look out for a great recipe tomorrow!

If you've been feeling stuck, irritable, tense, or sluggish, these aren't personal failings. They're signs your body needs support transitioning from winter rest to spring activation.

02/24/2026

What IF the mundane is already miraculous?

Most of us have been taught that spiritual experience belongs in specific places: churches, temples, meditation retreats, moments of transcendence. But what if your everyday life is already sacred ground?

⭐On April 17-19, internationally acclaimed author and teacher Mirabai Starr is leading a 3-day workshop called Ordinary Mysticism at The Center.

When you walk the path of the mystic, the mundane appears as miraculous. The boring becomes fascinating. Your shortcomings reveal themselves to be your greatest gifts.

April 17-19, 2026 | Investment: $300

To register, call 713-597-8047 or visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ordinary-mysticism-your-life-as-sacred-ground-3-day-workshop-with-mirabai-tickets-1234567890

02/20/2026

In Chinese Medicine, winter asks your body to rebuild reserves, and seaweed is one of the most mineral-dense foods you can eat.

Winter eating doesn't have to be all stews and soups. Sometimes your body needs lightness, crunch, and the kind of minerals that come from the ocean.

🌊🥒Seaweed Cucumber Sesame Salad🥒🌊

Ingredients:

Soaked wakame or seaweed salad base (available at Asian markets or HEB)
Sliced cucumber
Rice vinegar or lemon
Sesame oil
Sesame seeds
Optional: tamari + ginger

Instructions: Soak wakame according to package directions (usually just a few minutes in water). Drain and combine with sliced cucumber. Dress with rice vinegar or lemon juice, a drizzle of sesame oil, and sesame seeds. Add optional tamari and fresh-grated ginger if desired.

Why this works:

✨Seaweed is mineral-dense and salty, making it a Water element food in Chinese Medicine. It supports the Kidney system (long-term energy and stress resilience) and provides minerals your body needs when you've been running on empty.

✨Sesame supports yin and fluids, which get depleted in winter when heating systems dry out the air and your body.

✨Vinegar or lemon wakes digestion without aggression. When your system feels sluggish, a slight acidity helps things move without overstimulating.

✨Cucumber is cooling and hydrating, helpful when you're experiencing "hot stress"—the kind where you feel wired, overheated, or restless even in winter.

This salad balances minerals with freshness. Simple, nourishing, and fits into your actual life.

Comment if you’re making this! 💚

02/18/2026

We're welcoming Angeles Araujo, MS, LPC to The Center. She works with adolescents ages 11+ through a person-centered, trauma-informed approach where young people feel safe enough to show up as they are and move through what feels challenging.

💚If you're looking for support for your teen or older child, you can schedule a consultation at thecenterforhas.com

02/17/2026

The Lunar Year of the Fire Horse begins today. Can you feel the energy of it?

Perhaps you’ve noticed it building for weeks now—a sense of movement, momentum, and readiness—as the previous cycle completed its shedding and release.

This is an exciting time because, in Chinese medicine, Fire is the element of the Heart.
It governs joy, connection, compassion, vitality, and spirit.

Fire moves quickly. It spreads. It warms everything it touches.

And it requires attention and care—so it illuminates rather than rages out of control.

This year invites a heart-led life—one that brings this way of living into clearer focus and daily practice.

It calls for passion with purpose, growth with integrity, and a kind of courage that comes from being fully alive —from surrendering to the guidance of your Heart.

It also happens to be Random Acts of Kindness Day today.

A perfect reminder that kindness moves energy—whether it’s offered inward or outward.

Sometimes we begin with self-compassion.
Sometimes we begin by caring for another.

Either way, the heart responds.

As within, so without.
As without, so within.

May this Fire Horse year be led by courage, joy, and heart-centered action—born directly from your Heart. 🔥❤️

02/14/2026

As important as offering love to others…is learning to find love, care, and resonance for yourself.

Everything in nature has a rhythm.
Everything has a frequency.
You recognize the vibration of so many others…what would it feel like to attune to your own?

Whether today feels sweet… heavy… lonely… full… or tender—we invite you to let the waves of emotion move through you.

Sound helps us return to the heart and move what feels stuck— especially when words fall short.

Here is a way in:

One hand on heart, one hand on belly.Slow inhale through the nose.Long exhale through the mouth.(Repeat 3 times)

Now add a hum, sounding gently on your exhale. Just one soft tone.

Let yourself feel it—really feel it.

Let your sound soften you as its vibration moves through your body. Let your breath gift you calm and presence.

Love and care for self isn’t just a practice…it’s a process.
A relationship you cultivate, like any other.

You get to come home to yourself—and feel at home in your body.

♥️ Happy Valentine’s Day. 🎶 Happy World Sound Healing Day.
We are sending you LOTS of love and care.

Save this post for when you crave softness and a return to your centered, beloved self.

02/12/2026

Nearly 1 in 2 caregivers report significant emotional strain. Most of them don't ask for help until they're past the breaking point. 💚

If you're a caregiver or clinician, you already know this pattern.

Everyone else's needs feel more urgent. Your own exhaustion gets deprioritized. Rest feels like something you'll get to eventually, when things calm down, which they never actually do.

The problem isn't that you don't know you need support. It's that most support options require more energy than you have left.

On February 21, we're hosting a full-day Caregiver Wellness Retreat designed specifically for people who spend their lives holding space for others.

This is a day when you get to receive care without responsibility. Your only job is to show up and let someone else take care of you!

The day includes:
💚 Art-based healing that doesn't require you to be "good at art."
💚 Yoga therapy for bodies that are tired, not just tight
💚 Breathwork for nervous systems that haven't had permission to rest
💚 Ear seeding for regulation and grounding
💚 Nourishing meals you don't have to prepare
💚 Space to simply be, without anyone needing anything from you

We're limiting this to 12 participants so the day can feel restorative rather than overwhelming.

So you can exhale, and your nervous system can register that it's safe to stop holding everything.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caregiver-day-retreat-tickets-1980232874835
📞 713-597-8047

02/10/2026

Your Galentine's menu is here for February 13. 💗

💗Appetizer: cozy loungewear + zero stress

💗First Course: sheet masks that are clean + jade gua sha

💗Palate Cleanser: yoga nidra + deep, restorative rest

💗Entrée: nutritious + delicious dinner

💗Dessert: clean beauty + self-care tips you'll actually use

💗The Digestif: chocolate meditation

No uncomfortable outfits. No forced conversations.

Just an evening where being pampered is the whole point.

6 - 9:30 PM | Come in your coziest loungewear

Limited spots left! Link in bio to register.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/galentine-gathering-tickets-1980406646591?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

📞713-597-8047

02/06/2026

Food as Medicine Friday!

In Chinese Medicine, winter is the season when your body needs warming, grounding foods that support the Kidney and Lung systems.

Think: cozy without being heavy. Sweet without spiking your blood sugar. 🍐

This dessert checks all those boxes!

🍐Warm Pears + Tahini + Cinnamon (Dessert as Medicine) 🍐

Ingredients:

Pears, sliced & cored
2 tbsp tahini
1-2 tbsp warm water
Pinch sea salt
Cinnamon, sprinkled to taste
Chopped walnuts
Optional: honey drizzle

Instructions: Sauté pears lightly or bake until soft. While they cook, make the tahini drizzle by stirring tahini with warm water and sea salt until smooth and pourable (it will look thick at first, keep stirring). Top warm pears with tahini drizzle, cinnamon, walnuts, and optional honey.

Why this works:

✨ Warm pears are soothing, hydrating, and gentle on digestion. They support the Lung system, which governs moisture and respiration in TCM.

✨ Tahini provides grounding fats and minerals that calm and stabilize your nervous system, especially when you're feeling scattered or depleted.

✨ Cinnamon is warming and helps move stagnant cold in the body. It supports circulation and digestion.

✨ Walnuts are a Water element food that supports Kidney energy and brain nourishment in CM.

This is a dessert that actually supports your body instead of depleting it. Cozy, satisfying, and aligned with what winter asks of you.

Save this for later and let us know if you make it! 💚

02/05/2026

Sheet masks and chocolate meditation…need we say more?

That’s Galentine's at The Center. 💗

On February 13, you get to show up, be cared for, and leave knowing that the best love is self-love.

Here's what's happening:
✨ Sheet masks + gua sha
✨ Yoga nidra
✨ Chocolate meditation (yes, really!)
✨ Clean beauty tips
✨ A healthy, delicious dinner
✨ Your girlfriends + zero pressure

Come in your coziest loungewear. Bring your friends.

Limited spots available.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/galentine-gathering-tickets-1980406646591?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

📞713-597-8047

02/02/2026

Raffle winners from the New Year’s Wellness Event! Congratulations!! We’ll be reaching out to the winners very soon to connect you to your prizes :)

If you didn’t win this time, come back to future events for a chance to win the next one! Thank you to all of you who could make it, and we hope to see some old faces and some new faces at our next event taking place on February 21–Stay tuned!

(Extra points to anyone who spots Susie 😉)

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