Balanced Life Movement

10/12/2025

10/12/2025

A Weekend of Remembering What Matters

This weekend I am spending nearly all my time outside — biking along quiet roads, kayaking on still water, hiking until my legs ache, and napping beneath a tree with the wind moving softly through the leaves.

No screens. No schedule. Just being. A tiny hamlet in the Adirondacks calling me outside to explore.

Something happens when we step away from our phones and back into the rhythms of the natural world. Our senses start to open again — the light looks different, colors feel more alive, and the mind finally stops trying to fix or analyze.

Out here, I could feel my nervous system exhale. The simplicity of movement, sunlight, and fresh air is medicine. It reminds me how healing can be found in what’s already here — in the body, in the breeze, in the sound of water touching shore.

If you’ve been overwhelmed or disconnected lately: Leave your phone behind for a few hours (or all day), go outside, and let yourself be moved by the beauty that’s always waiting.

Your body will remember how to breathe again.

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🌞 At Balanced Life Movement, we help people reconnect to this sense of presence through somatic and creative arts therapy — because nature and the body are our first healers.

09/23/2025

Fall invites change — but with change often comes stress. 🍁 Our bodies can feel the shift in daylight, schedules, and energy. If you’ve been feeling tense, scattered, or heavy lately, you’re not alone.

Here are a few ways to regulate and ground yourself this season:

✨ Shake it out: Stand, soften your knees, and gently shake your arms, legs, and shoulders for 1–2 minutes. This signals safety to your nervous system and discharges stored tension.
✨ Breath + sound: Place your hands on your ribs and take three slow, wide breaths. Exhale with a gentle hum or sigh to release stuck energy.
✨ Create with what’s around you: Collect leaves, acorns, or fall colors and make a mini “nature altar” in your space — a visual reminder to slow down and honor the season.
✨ Dance or sway: Put on a song that matches your mood and let your body move freely, even for a minute. Movement helps process emotions when words aren’t enough.

🍂 If stress feels like it’s living in your body this fall, therapy can help you find your rhythm again.
At Balanced Life Movement, we offer Somatic and Creative Arts Therapy to help you move through change with support.

📩 DM us or click the link in bio to schedule a session — let’s help your nervous system settle into this season.

09/10/2025

Today is World Su***de Prevention Day 💛

Su***de is never just about wanting life to end — it’s often about wanting the pain to stop. At Balanced Life Movement, we know how overwhelming trauma, depression, and despair can feel. You don’t have to carry it alone.

🌿 Our message today:

Your story matters.

Your pain is real.

Healing is possible.

We care about you.

Therapy can be a place to untangle the weight, find safety, and learn tools that bring relief. Together, we can move toward hope, connection, and new ways of being with what feels unbearable.

If you or someone you love is struggling, please reach out. Support is available:
📞 Call or text 988 for the Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (24/7)
📞 In an emergency, dial 911
✨️To explore therapy with us ~
Call (516) 847-4289 or send us a DM

You are not alone. 💛

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08/15/2025

✨ A Sacred Journey Awaits ✨

For the past three years, I’ve been guiding individuals through Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)—both in intimate retreats and one-on-one sessions—witnessing the profound ways this medicine can open the heart, quiet the mind, and reconnect us to ourselves. I have personally been transformed by this medicine to heal the trauma I experienced from loss a few years ago. KAP helped me take the next action step in moving forward and letting go. I felt the safety and love I needed. The messages and visuals I received were profound, taking me back to a time in childhood that I had yet to contend with. The medicine, in a safe container of therapy, can be transformative, and offers something unique for those who engage with it.

🌿KAP combines the use of low-dose ketamine with therapeutic support to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health concerns. In a safe, professionally guided setting, it can facilitate access to deeper emotional processing, new perspectives, and lasting change.

💃💃🏼So when my dear colleague, Joy Ruben-Welts, asked me to co-create this retreat with her, I said YES without hesitation. We work alongside Journey Clinical medical team for the clinical health assessment and prescription portion of care. Then we craft the embodied safety, creative mindset, and setting of the experience with you.

🎨Together, we weave ritual, expressive arts, and dance/movement therapy into every step—creating a sacred and grounded container where your inner wisdom can speak and your body can lead the way home.

✨️This is more than a retreat.
It’s a sacred, embodied journey—rooted in both science and soul.

Read more about the science and efficacy of KAP on our website:
https://balancedlifemovement.com/psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy

📩 Curious to learn more or join us?
Fill out our Interest Form here:
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