Sophia Center, Inc.

11/03/2025

Good Morning! We hope you have a great day and week ahead of you 💞

10/31/2025

We hope you have a fun and safe trick or treating tonight!
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Happy Halloween

10/28/2025

Embracing the power of And allows us understand it's okay and part of being human to have both experiences ❤️

DBTSkills. Mindfulness. The Power of AND

10/27/2025

📢 We are still taking registrations for our next Parent Café Series in partnership with Sylvania Area Family Services, Inc

🏆. Participate in important conversations with other parents about parenting. Share joys and challenges while learning from each other and making new connections.

➡️ Bring children age 3-12 along to attend a youth enrichment session in collaboration with NAMI's creative Kids program.

🍪 Incentives and a meal are also part of the evenings festivities

Register Here: https://NovemberCafe.eventbrite.com

10/22/2025

Did you know- Sophia Center is a Non-profit, mission based Counseling Center?

10/22/2025

Both can be true 😊

DBTSkills. Dialectical Thinking.
When seemingly opposing perspectives can co exist.

10/21/2025

Thanks for your beautiful care of our team!

What an honor to be invited by the Sophia Center and Bethany House to their Follow-up Wellness event. We had the privilege of providing care to volunteers of the Silent Witness Project, honoring the lives lost to domestic violence. Such important work; caring for the people who care for the people.

Thank you for all of the amazing work you all do in and for our community.

10/20/2025

Love this resource 🩵

The Window of Tolerance.
Credit : Lindsay Brahman.

We always stand a much better chance of staying on course if they pay close attention to our nervous system.

This is especially true for those with a history of trauma.

Learning about fight, flight, fawn, and freeze can be helpful, but learning how these responses manifest in our bodies is where the magic really starts.

When we understand how fight, flight, freeze, or fawn show up for us, we can develop an internal template to refer back to in moments where we are feeling a lot of (or beginning to shut down and feeling no emotion at all) that alerts us when it’s time take steps to soothe our and return to our window of tolerance.

No one has an innate ability to pause during a conflict and reflect “Gosh, I think I might be moving into a freeze response.”

Instead, this realization tends to be something we recognize as we reflect on an experience later.

Growing the capacity to check in with ourselves and notice, in the moment, when we are slipping into a response is one key to learning how to self-soothe, expand our , grow emotionally, and build .

That’s where my new comes in: it’s a tool specifically for helping us recognize when we are moving out of our window of tolerance (where we can listen, learn, and respond thoughtfully) and into a reaction state.

Like the Emotion Sensation Wheel, the Fight, Flight, & Freeze Embodied Wheel is a tool to prompt conversations and build awareness by showing how each of these responses *tends* to show up through physical sensations.

It's not prescriptive- it's a conversation starter. It's meant to teach, to stir, and to prompt conversations that build awareness, connection, and experience through awareness.

Download a digital copy of this art via Lindsay Brahman's website

10/09/2025

✨ Meet Ildi! With her love for insightful conversations and a quest for deeper meaning, she contributes a genuine sense of care and thoughtfulness to The Sophia Center, enriching the experience for everyone around her.

10/07/2025

📢. Sophia is thrilled to announce our next Parent Cafe Series in partnership with Sylvania Area Family Services, Inc and Sylvania Child Care

🏆. Participate in important conversations with other parents about parenting. Share joys and challenges, while learning from each other and making new connections.

➡️. Childcare available for children 3-12 years old

🍪 Incentives and a meal are also part of each session!

Spread the word: Whiteford Parent OrganizationSylvania AdVantageRotary Club of SylvaniaHighland Parent Organization - HPOSylvania Franciscans-SistersTimberstone Parent OrganizationHill View Parent ClubNeighborhood bridges SylvaniaArbor Hills Junior High SchoolMcCord Junior High SchoolSylvania Prevention AllianceSylvania Parents and Residents

Register Here:
https://NovemberCafe.eventbrite.com

10/06/2025

Meet the mastermind and powerhouse behind our grant programs, Polly! She’s committed to growing community resources and helping families thrive throughout Toledo, one program at a time.