Gentle Reflections Energy Healing

12/23/2025

My latest art project - a milestone blanket for my granddaughter.

I modeled it after several blankets I saw online but designed it specifically around my daughter’s request for a handmade gift and a love for nature and wildlife.

I experimented with several animal designs but ran out of time and gave up and ordered a kit with these little cuties that I just sewed together.

The weeks and months “logs” are interchangeable.

It was challenging getting everything in the right proportion, but I love it, and so does my daughter and her family.

Art comes in many forms and incredibly therapeutic!🌲🌳❤️

12/21/2025

Children hear more than the volume of our voice —
they hear the meaning behind it.
And when the moment gets loud,
when our frustration spills over,
when we raise our voices without meaning to,
the message gets lost in the noise.

Yelling doesn’t make our words stronger.
It makes them harder to receive.
A child’s nervous system reacts to tone long before it understands content,
so when the volume rises, their ability to absorb the lesson falls.

But speaking quietly isn’t about perfection or never losing our temper —
every parent has moments they regret.
It’s about remembering that calm communication keeps the door open.
That softness gives our message a place to land.
That connection teaches better than fear ever could.

When we slow down, they can too.
When we steady our voice, their bodies unclench.
When we choose quiet, the message actually reaches them.

It’s not about getting it right every time.
It’s about knowing the power we hold,
and learning to use it in a way their hearts can hear. ❤️

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12/21/2025

This.

Even when children seem distracted, their hearts are paying attention.❤️

12/21/2025

I’m taking a break for the holiday, happily visiting my daughter and her family in Brooklyn, NY. I’m over the moon in love with my new granddaughter! 🌕 💫🕊️🌸💕🎄💝Such a precious Christmas present! 💝

Wishing you and your families a lovely, joyful, safe, and happy holiday!
💫🕊️💛💫🕊️💛💫🕊️💛💫

12/17/2025

I had the great pleasure of teaching a class based on neurographic principles last night at the Cumberland Arts Collective meeting.

Thank you to the fabulously talented and extraordinary Kellene Turner for inviting me to the group and asking me to share this powerful process, and thank you to all the wonderful CAC members who attended!

Come January I’ll be offering a class entitled “Artful Calm: Drawing From Within” at the Whitley County Community Arrs Center in Williamsburg. The 2.5 hour class will take a more in-depth exploration of a neurographic process that invites calm, healing, and creativity, coupled with intention and features a new topic every month. Classes will be held the first Wednesday of the month through April.

12/17/2025

Heads up, friends! Come January I’ll begin offering a class entitled “Artful Calm: Drawing From Within.” The class incorporates the neurographic process that invites calm, healing, and creativity, all coupled with intention and featuring a new topic every month.

Classes will be held the first Wednesday of the month through April. I hope to see you there!

Our spring 2026 newsletter is here!

We will be offering an array of educational programs, such as pottery, hiking, and many other programs including our annual Earth Day event in April.

Click the link below and take a look at what we have coming up!

January-April 2026 Newsletter:https://whitley.mgcafe.uky.edu/sites/whitley.ca.uky.edu/files/SPRING%202025.pdf

12/16/2025

As a holistic healing practitioner who works with clients who have experienced PTSD and CPTSD as well as having experienced both myself, I'd like to remind people how important it is to be gentle with others. (PTSD is a single traumatic event while CPTSD is complex trauma experienced over a period of time.)

After years of observing people who are quick to judge, condemn and/or gossip about others, I have learned that it's easy to jump to conclusions. I've done it myself so I get it. Sometimes we project due to our own insecurities or do the "compare and despair" thing. It could be habit formed at an early age because that's how people bond. There are numerous reasons why people do this.

It's more difficult to observe without judgment and allow for space to not know, not judge, not assume. This takes awareness and conscious effort.

I invite others to consider that not everything that meets the eye is what it appears to be. Many people are going through situations and issues that they can't talk about or are used to managing on their own.

The world is a hard enough place. I believe that we can all use a little more kindness. 🙏

11/30/2025

I practiced self-care today by visiting my favorite state park, bathed in the sun, grounded with a few beautiful trees, and petted some furry farm animals.

11/27/2025

Read the latest East Tennessee Wellness Directory blog post
:
𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬) by Carol Lucia Lopez, Gentle Reflections Energy Healing

Q. Which of your body systems is at play when you feel stressed or triggered?
A. The limbic system.
If you’ve ever had a smell transport you instantly back to childhood, or felt your heart race during a tough conversation even though you knew you were safe, you’ve experienced the work of a powerful part of your brain: the limbic system. Read more: https://etwellnessdirectory.com/blog/why-your-emotional-reactions-aren%E2%80%99t-random-and-how-healing-your-limbic-system-helps

11/26/2025

Wishing my friends, family, and neighbors a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving. I pray that you are blessed with love and good health.
🙏❤🙏