The Restored Soul Integrated Wellness- Allison Hillberry, LMT

10/14/2025

We are closed this week at The Restored Soul. Taking time to get out and explore the beautiful world around us. Make sure to step out, breathe the fresh fall air and admire the clouds and the changing trees!

10/02/2025

Last night we had the pleasure of hosting our local Zonta women’s group and helped them bag up birthing kits for underprivileged women in struggling countries. Each kit contained simple but important items easily obtained for us… one plastic sheet to lay on, clean gauze, string for umbilical tie off, a razor blade, a pair of gloves and a bar of soap…in a quart sized ziplock bag… it highlighted how fortunate we are in this country to not have to worry about taking a bag like this into our hospitals to be sanitary, or to put down on dirt floors or open ground… I pray each of these kits( more than 1100 packed up in these garbage bags) blesses each woman they come in contact with… thank you to my Rooted Sisters group for coming and helping out , it was a pleasure joining our groups for such an important thing!
Thanks Nancy Verderber and friends for letting us know about this need!

08/21/2025

This is happening at my church in September, it’s going to be so good! Let me know if you want to come and need info!

I’m honored to have been asked to be the guest speaker at the Women’s One-Day Retreat hosted by Calvary Baptist Church on September 13, 2025 in Washington, PA.

This will be a day set apart to pause from the busyness, find encouragement, and be reminded of how God can reshape even our brokenness into beauty. I’ll be sharing my story of hope and self care, weaving it together with clay in my hands, and you’ll even get the chance to create a little piece of pottery yourself. ✨

If you’re local, I’d love to see you there.

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07/01/2025

6 years ago, we opened on July 1st. I felt the push to see who owned the old schoolhouse/church on Franklin Farms, got to talk with the owner (new friends!) who was willing to rent to us and let us renovate to meet our needs, we had the opportunity to buy massage tables from Penn Commercial who had closed their massage program ( this story is what made me know this was a “God thing”)
… and we hit the ground running for 3 months to renovate this old space (largely used for storage for several years ) and it has now become this comfortable space where I get to help my clients in their health journey and manage pain.
These 6 years we’ve added multiple modalities, my daughter in law joined me here to provide counseling, we’ve had terrific Bible studies, essential oil classes, sharing laughs and tears with clients, praying with and for them… and I pray so much more to come. It’s a privilege and a blessing to have this opportunity and I’m so grateful for the family and friends who helped make it happen!

06/19/2025

(I had originally posted these words below with a link to an article about cranial lymphatic work helping with Alzheimer’s… but somehow it ended up linking a weird group to join… if I find the article again, I’ll post it in the comments.)

And this is why I like doing cranial and neck work… often times it’s hard to convince someone to let me do the light pressure that cranial sacral work offers. People prefer to have the deeper pressure on muscles ( which is absolutely beneficial) but the lighter pressure that “seems like it’s not doing much” helps move those lymphatic fluids much more than deeper work. If you’re curious, ask me at your next appointment and I’ll show you and explain what I’m doing and why. Those who have had it done in a longer, more therapeutic way, love it and love how it relaxes the central nervous system. There are benefits to all the levels of pressure, that’s why I usually do a combination based on how you’re feeling that day and what we are trying to achieve.

06/05/2025

Did you know that our eyes were created with special receptors in them to pick up the different types of light spectrum our sun gives off throughout the day?
Even though we can’t visibly see the different colors throughout the day, our eyes receive important information from that first dawning light to the sunset’s last glimmer and that information tells the systems in our bodies what to do next.
We have been taught to fear the sun, but our creator made our bodies to use the sunlight.
I heard the analogy that when we put sunglasses and loads of sunblock on our skin, it’s like putting a black plastic bag over a plant and setting it in the sun expecting it to stay green and healthy…
Let’s try to cut down the time we shade our eyes with the UV blocking sunglasses. Save them for when it’s absolutely necessary like driving, skiing, beach reflection etc.
I always thought I had sensitive eyes because they are blue ( that’s what I’ve always heard) but actually it’s a sign that I need more sun exposure to help combat the inflammation going on inside the body… but maybe that’s info for another day…
Anyway, will you join me in this challenge to wear sunglasses less often? To build a tolerance for it?
*Here’s a hint, start by gazing towards the sun ( not directly at it) in the early morning hours each day and then again in the evening hours as the sun is setting. That brings so many benefits to the body…. And it’s FREE!!!

05/01/2025

I am loving this app that lets me know when vitamin D can be made on any given day in my location. Today I stored up over 1000IU’s in just 15 minutes. I ate my lunch in the sunshine and was grounding barefoot and no sunscreen or sunglasses. It’s that easy to make vitamin D the way our creator designed us to! Let’s not be afraid of the sun, I know it’s been drilled into our heads, but we are sicker from NOT absorbing the sunlight into our skin and eyes! Grab some water and just go out and even get 3-5 minutes of sunlight! If smoke-breaks are a thing why not sun-breaks ?!☀️☀️☀️☀️🌿🌱🌳

04/29/2025

Did you know that our bodies have special receptors in our eyes and skin that pick up the spectrum of light outside?
The sunrise and uva rise light turn on our body’s clock to set the rhythm of our systems for the day. And the light coming from the sunset hours trigger the body to turn off the stress and get the body ready to be repaired while we sleep.

God designed our bodies to pick up what it needs from the sun and the earth and we have unfortunately been taught to fear the sun and often our lifestyle and work situation keeps us indoors far more than we were created to be.

We also disrupt those signals as we live life in front of screens that send too much blue light into the eyes… let’s resist the urge to pick up the phone right when we get up and before going to bed so that our bodies can begin to find their rhythm again.