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Lakes Counseling & Wellness Center, Spirit Lake, IA (2026)

03/11/2026

Anxiety doesn’t just live in our thoughts — it lives in our bodies too.

In this week’s Mind | Body | Soul episode, Rachel and Jen circle back to last week’s anxiety conversation and share real-life updates about how they’re working with anxiety while navigating parenting, business ownership, relationships, and everyday stress.

They talk about the importance of:
✨ Self-compassion
✨ Slowing down and acknowledging feelings
✨ Giving ourselves space to process instead of pushing through

Plus, they share details about their upcoming Yoga + Therapy Experience designed to help you work with anxiety through both the body and mind.

Instead of just talking about anxiety, we’ll explore it through movement, nervous system awareness, and supportive conversation.

🧘‍♀️ Yoga + Therapy: Working with Anxiety

📅 March 27
⏰ 8:15–9:30 AM
📍 Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center
💲 $40

The experience includes:
• Grounding and heart-opening yoga to calm the nervous system
• A therapist-guided conversation about how anxiety shows up in the body
• Practical tools to regulate and support yourself in everyday life

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, tense, or stuck in overdrive, this is a space to slow down, reconnect, and restore.

✨ Space is limited — pre-registration required

To register contact:
Jen
📧 jenschaben@kw.com

📞 319.325.5075 🔗 Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5H5CPfUk85YNSCNbYbN32T?si=rtPt9nGXTJmYix2vgDuM0Q&pi=3RYOGCj7QrKz1&t=0

03/10/2026

✨ YOGA + THERAPY: A Different Way to Heal ✨

This month, we’re focusing on anxiety — not just talking about it, but truly working with it in the body and mind.

Join us on March 27th from 8:15–9:30 AM at Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center for a powerful, integrative experience designed to help you reconnect, release, and restore.

🧘‍♀️ The Yoga Practice
We’ll move through grounding, heart-opening, and stabilizing postures specifically chosen to:
• Calm the nervous system
• Release stored tension
• Create space for emotional flow
• Build a sense of safety and steadiness within

💬 The Therapy Conversation
Our licensed therapist, Rachel, will guide a supportive discussion exploring:
• How anxiety shows up in the body
• The impact it has on our nervous system
• Healthy, practical ways to process and regulate it

This isn’t just yoga.
It isn’t just talk therapy.

It’s a powerful blend that recognizes anxiety lives in both the mind and the body — and true healing honors both.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, tense, or stuck in overdrive, this class offers a compassionate space to slow down, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and learn tools you can carry into daily life.

✨ Space is limited — pre-registration is required.

📅 March 27
⏰ 8:15–9:30 AM
📍 Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center
💲 $40

To register, contact:
Jen
📧 jenschaben@kw.com

📞 319.325.5075

Come breathe. Move. Process. Heal. 💛

03/09/2026

Your body remembers.

It remembers every room where you didn’t feel safe.
Every moment you had to shrink yourself to survive.
Every time you carried pain quietly.

Healing isn’t only something that happens in the mind.
It’s also teaching your body that those spaces no longer exist — that it’s safe to soften, breathe, and release.

Emotional Release Yoga – 4 Week Series 🧘‍♀️
A gentle, supportive space designed to help you let go physically, emotionally, and energetically.

📅 Sundays | 1:00 – 2:00 PM
April 12 – May 3

📍 Lakes Counseling & Wellness Center
507 18th Street
Spirit Lake, IA 51360

This 4-week yoga series will guide you through areas of the body where emotions and stress are commonly stored, helping you reconnect with your body and release what you’ve been carrying.

Weekly Focus

🧘‍♀️ Week 1: Neck, Shoulders & Jaw
Release tension from overthinking, clenching, and carrying the weight of “everything.”

💨 Week 2: Chest & Lungs
Open the heart and breath — helpful for grief, sadness, anxiety, and feeling emotionally closed off.

🌙 Week 3: Hips, Pelvis & Low Back
The emotional storage center of the body. We’ll gently work with deep-seated stress and suppressed emotions.

✨ Week 4: Stomach, Hands & Full-Body Release
Digest emotions, release control, and leave feeling lighter, grounded, and more whole.

This series may be especially helpful if you:

• Feel chronically tense or “on edge”
• Carry stress in your body but don’t know how to release it
• Feel emotionally stuck or overwhelmed
• Prefer gentle movement instead of intense workouts
• Are in therapy or doing healing work and want body-based support

You don’t need to be flexible.
You don’t need yoga experience.

You just need a body — and the willingness to let it soften.

💰 Cost: $71 for the full 4-week series
⚠️ Class space is limited

📞 Contact Jen Schaben to register:
319.325.5075
jenschaben@kw.com

03/06/2026

BOUNDARIES SERIES | Why You Need Boundaries

Healthy boundaries are not selfish—they’re essential.

When we don’t have clear boundaries, we often find ourselves overcommitting, people-pleasing, and saying yes when we truly mean no. Over time, this can lead to burnout, resentment, and emotional exhaustion. Instead of showing up as our best selves, we show up depleted.

Boundaries protect your time, energy, and emotional well-being so you can live and give from a place of balance rather than obligation.

One important truth about boundaries:
The right people won’t be offended by them—they’ll respect them.
People who care about you want you to be healthy, balanced, and able to show up authentically. Boundaries actually create stronger, healthier relationships because they bring clarity, honesty, and mutual respect.

But if setting boundaries feels uncomfortable, you’re not alone. Many of us were never taught how to do this in a healthy way. We may feel guilt, fear disappointing others, or worry about conflict.

This is where therapy can be incredibly helpful.

A therapist can help you:
• Identify where boundaries may be missing in your life
• Understand the patterns that make it hard to say no
• Practice communicating your needs clearly and confidently
• Work through the guilt or anxiety that can come with change
• Build healthier relationships based on respect and balance

Setting boundaries is a skill—and like any skill, it can be learned and strengthened with support.

Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center is here to support you through every step of your healing journey. Whether you come for one session to gain clarity or ongoing support for deeper growth, you deserve a space where you can learn, heal, and grow.

Healthy boundaries don’t push people away.
They make space for the relationships and life that truly support you. 🤍

03/04/2026

Anxiety doesn’t mean you’re broken.

It usually means your mind is living somewhere other than right now.

This week on Mind | Body | Soul, we’re talking about:
✨ Why anxiety keeps you stuck in the past or future
✨ How avoidance quietly makes it worse
✨ What’s happening in your nervous system
✨ Practical, safe ways to face fear and calm your body

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, tense, or constantly “on,” this episode is for you.

And if you’re ready to go deeper…

✨ YOGA + THERAPY: A Different Way to Heal ✨
March 27 | 8:15–9:30 AM
Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center

We’re combining intentional yoga + guided therapy conversation to help you regulate anxiety in both the mind and body.

Spots are limited and pre-registration is required.

Message us for details or contact Jen to reserve your spot:
📧 jenschaben@kw.com

📞 319.325.5075

🎧 Listen to the episode now. Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pABRJdCcLy3UqUnooAE4S?si=b4-rB2u7Q-msuAKNkMAOVQ&t=2&pi=vMkvOB6xQrqzZ
Follow Mind | Body | Soul for weekly conversations that support your healing journey.

You don’t have to manage anxiety alone. 💛

03/02/2026

THE REASON WHY PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN THROUGH THERAPY OFTEN SAY IT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT:

It’s not because therapy magically solved every problem.
It’s not because life suddenly became easy.

It’s because it changed the relationship they have with their own thinking.

Instead of being overwhelmed by every anxious thought…
Instead of believing every inner critic…
Instead of reacting on autopilot…

They learned to pause.
To notice.
To question.

They became the observer of themselves.

And that skill? It doesn’t stay in the therapy room.

It shows up in:
✨ Relationships
✨ Parenting
✨ Leadership
✨ Decision-making
✨ Boundaries
✨ Stressful moments
✨ Everyday conversations

When you can step back and observe your thoughts instead of being controlled by them, everything shifts. You respond instead of react. You choose instead of spiral. You grow instead of repeat.

That’s why so many people say therapy is the best investment they’ve made — because it strengthens a skill that improves every area of life.

If you’ve been thinking about starting, this might be your sign.

Reach out to Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center
📞 712.336.2186
🌐 https://www.lakescounseling.org

Your relationship with yourself is worth it.

02/27/2026

BOUNDARIES SERIES — How to Hold Boundaries

Setting boundaries is step one.
Holding them is the real work.

Anyone can say, “That doesn’t work for me.”
The growth shows up in what you do next.

Holding a boundary looks like:

• Repeating yourself calmly (even when you’re tired of hearing your own voice)
• Following through on consequences
• Resisting the urge to over-explain or justify your needs
• Allowing others to be disappointed without rushing in to fix it
• Staying grounded when someone pushes back

Because here’s the truth:
The first time you set a boundary, people may test it. Not always maliciously — sometimes because they’re used to the old version of you.

Consistency is the message.

When your words and actions match over time, you teach people how to treat you. Not through force. Not through anger. Through steadiness.

And this is where therapy can be powerful.

Therapy helps you:
• Understand why holding boundaries feels uncomfortable (fear of rejection? conflict? being seen as “too much”?)
• Unlearn people-pleasing and over-functioning patterns
• Regulate guilt and anxiety that show up when you say no
• Practice scripts and responses in a safe space
• Build the self-trust needed to follow through

Many of us weren’t taught that boundaries are healthy. We were taught to keep the peace, be agreeable, or earn love through self-sacrifice.

Holding boundaries often means grieving the version of you that survived by overextending.

But on the other side?
Self-respect.
Clarity.
Healthier relationships.

You don’t need to be louder.
You need to be consistent.

What’s one boundary you’re working on holding right now?

02/25/2026

✨ NEW EPISODE + NEW OFFERING ✨

This week on Mind | Body | Soul, Rachel & Jen talk about something so many of us quietly wrestle with:

How do we practice self-compassion… without using it to justify the very behaviors that are causing our suffering?

We’re diving into:
• Health, diet & personal responsibility
• Being hard on ourselves vs. holding ourselves accountable
• Chronic frustration & negative self-talk
• The idea that dis-ease can come from not living in alignment with our purpose

And we’re so excited to share a new experience we’re offering through Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center:

🧘‍♀️ Yoga + Therapy: Anger & Self-Compassion

Feeling angry all the time?
Hard on yourself?
Stuck in negative self-talk?

If you notice frustration simmering under the surface…
If you’re quick to react and slow to soften…
If your inner voice is more critical than kind…
Or if you’re craving a healthier way to process big emotions —

This experience was created for you.

Anger isn’t “bad.”
It’s information. It’s energy.
And it lives in both the body and the nervous system.

This intentional space is designed to help you explore, understand, and move through that energy safely and compassionately.

Here’s what to expect:

🧘‍♀️ 1. Yoga (Asana Practice)
Grounding, heart-opening, and stabilizing postures to release stored tension and create emotional flow. Accessible for all levels.

💬 2. Guided Discussion
Led by Rachel, licensed therapist:
• How anger shows up in the body
• How it impacts the nervous system
• Why it often masks deeper emotions
• Self-compassionate ways to respond instead of react

🌬 3. Somatic Body Work + Breathwork
Techniques to regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your body, and create internal safety.

🤍 4. Mind–Body Integration
This isn’t just yoga.
It isn’t just therapy.
It’s healing that honors both.

📅 Friday 2/27
⏰ 8:15–9:30 AM
💲 $40
⚠️ Space is limited

To register:
📧 jenschaben@kw.com

📱 319.325.5075

Come as you are.
Leave grounded, empowered, and a little more compassionate with yourself. 🪞Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/17M53vEkTK2tp5LxnAUdy3?si=MULvMWqYTyObZ9GD9umd-Q&t=0&pi=Ze-NojC0SLa0l

02/24/2026

✨ Emotional Release Yoga: 4-Week Series ✨
Did you know your body stores emotions? Stress, grief, anxiety, overwhelm—when they’re not processed, they don’t just disappear… they settle into your muscles, joints, and breath.
One of the easiest, fastest, and most natural ways to release stored emotion is through movement. This 4-week yoga series is designed to help you gently let go—physically, emotionally, and energetically. No yoga experience necessary!
Each week we’ll focus on a different area of the body where stress and emotion tend to live:
🧘‍♀️ Week 1: Neck, Shoulders & Jaw
Release tension from overthinking, clenching, and carrying the weight of “everything.”
💨 Week 2: Chest & Lungs
Open the heart and breath—great for grief, sadness, anxiety, and feeling emotionally closed off.
🌙 Week 3: Hips, Pelvis & Low Back
The emotional storage center of the body. We’ll work with deep-seated stress, trauma, and suppressed emotions.
✨ Week 4: Stomach, Hands & Full-Body Release
Digest emotions, release control, and leave feeling lighter, grounded, and whole.
This series is specifically designed for those who:
• Feel chronically tense or “on edge”
• Carry stress in your body but don’t know how to release it
• Feel emotionally stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected
• Want gentle movement instead of intense workouts
• Are craving nervous system regulation and deep exhale energy
• Are in therapy or healing work and want body-based support
You don’t need to be flexible. You don’t need yoga experience.
You just need a body—and the willingness to let it soften.
📅 4-Week Series
Sundays | March 1 – March 22, 2026
1:00–2:00 PM
📍 Lakes Counseling - 507 18th Street | Spirit Lake, IA
💰 Cost:
• $71 for the full 4-week series
⚠️ Space is limited. Pre-registration required.
📞 Register by calling or emailing Jen:
319-325-5075
jenschaben@kw.com
Your body has been holding a lot for you.
It’s time to let it release. 💛

02/23/2026

At Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center, your experience and feedback truly matter to us. We are exploring several new service offerings and would love to hear your thoughts. 💫

Please take a moment to click the link below and let us know if you would be interested in any of the following new offerings:

https://form.typeform.com/to/Q6XfKyJa

Your input helps guide our growth and ensures we continue to provide services that best support your needs and our community. We value your perspective and would greatly appreciate you taking a few minutes to share what you would like to see from us.

Thank you for being a part of our community. We look forward to hearing from you! 🌷

02/23/2026

✨ Feeling angry all the time? Hard on yourself? Stuck in negative self-talk? This experience was created for you.

If you notice frustration simmering under the surface…
If you’re quick to react and slow to soften…
If your inner voice is more critical than kind…
Or if you’re simply craving a healthier way to process big emotions —

Join us for Yoga + Therapy at Lakes Counseling and Wellness Center — a unique mind–body experience focused on anger and self-compassion.

Anger isn’t “bad.” It’s information. It’s energy. And it lives in both the body and the nervous system. This intentional space is designed to help you explore, understand, and move through that energy safely and compassionately.

Here’s what to expect:

🧘‍♀️ 1. Yoga (Asana Practice)
We’ll move through grounding, heart-opening, and stabilizing postures to help release stored tension and create space for emotional flow. Accessible, supportive movement for all levels.

💬 2. Guided Discussion
Our licensed therapist, Rachel, will lead a supportive conversation exploring:
• How anger shows up in the body
• How it impacts the nervous system
• Why it often masks deeper emotions
• Healthy, self-compassionate ways to process and respond

🌬 3. Somatic Body Work + Breathwork
We’ll integrate somatic techniques and breath practices to regulate your system, reconnect you with your body, and create safety within.

🤍 4. Mind–Body Integration
This isn’t just yoga.
It isn’t just talk therapy.
It’s a powerful blend that acknowledges anger lives in both the mind and the body — and true healing honors both.

Yoga + Therapy with Rachel & Jen
📅 Friday 2/27
⏰ 8:15–9:30 AM
💲 $40
⚠️ Space is limited.

To register:
📧 jenschaben@kw.com

📱 319.325.5075

Come as you are. Leave feeling grounded, empowered, and a little more compassionate with yourself. 🪞

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