Connections Therapy

12/23/2025

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12/21/2025

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12/21/2025

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12/20/2025

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12/12/2025

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12/10/2025

Tonight is exploring spirituality group at 6:15 PM at 431 E. Elm Ave. it's a very special talk about archangels and the angel realm and there will be a cute little gift for anyone who attends tonight. Hope to see you there.

12/09/2025

In May 2021, Angelina Jolie chose to do something most people can’t even imagine.
She stood absolutely still for eighteen full minutes while sixty thousand bees moved across her skin. They crawled over her face, her collarbone, her arms. One even slipped beneath her dress and stayed there the entire time. She didn’t panic. She didn’t flinch. She simply held her ground.

It wasn’t for spectacle. It was a warning.

For World Bee Day, Jolie partnered with National Geographic to create an image that would force the world to look at what we are losing: our bees, and with them, the stability of our food supply. The beauty of the photograph didn’t come from glamour. It came from the urgency behind it.

Preparing for that moment required a level of discipline most of us never think about.
For three days before the shoot, she couldn’t shower. No perfume. No soap. No shampoo.
“Scent confuses them,” she said. “The bee doesn’t know what you are if you smell like everything except yourself.”

The photographer, Dan Winters—a lifelong beekeeper—wanted the bees to gather on Jolie the way they had in Richard Avedon’s famous 1981 portrait of a beekeeper covered in honeybees. So he tracked down the same entomologist who had worked with Avedon four decades earlier. The man was eighty-seven years old. And astonishingly, he still had the original jar of queen pheromone.

That very same pheromone was applied to Jolie’s skin on the morning of the shoot.

She stepped onto the set and moved within inches of a swarm containing sixty thousand honeybees.
No veil. No gloves. No protective suit. Winters wore none either, saying he wanted to stand with her, not behind a barrier.

“She had this remarkable calm,” Winters said. “No flinch, no tremor. It was as though she had been working with bees her entire life.”

When the session ended, Jolie gently lifted the hem of her dress to free the lone bee exploring her thigh. It drifted away into the air. She left the set without a single sting.

But the photograph wasn’t the end of the story. It was the doorway.

Jolie had partnered with UNESCO and Guerlain to launch “Women for Bees,” an initiative designed to train women worldwide to become beekeepers and stewards of local ecosystems. By 2025, the program plans to train fifty women across twenty-five countries, build 2,500 hives, and help protect 125 million bees.

Why women? Because when women gain the tools to protect their environment, communities become stronger.
Why bees? Because without them, one-third of our food disappears.

Bees pollinate most of the world’s fruits, vegetables, nuts, and the crops that feed livestock. When bees vanish, the chain of life weakens. And they are vanishing—threatened by pesticides, habitat destruction, disease, and climate change.

This is a crisis with a solution, if we choose to take it.

“With so much to worry about in the world,” Jolie said, “this is a problem we can address. We can all do our part.”

The photograph became one of the most widely shared images of 2021 not because it was shocking, but because it was honest. It captured a truth we tend to forget until it is almost too late.

Our survival is woven into the survival of the smallest creatures around us.
Angelina Jolie didn’t just pose with bees that day.
She stood beside them.

And in doing so, she reminded us that protecting bees is, quite literally, protecting ourselves.

12/09/2025

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