Lana LaChance

10/31/2025

Feeling down, get your body moving.

Exercise outperforms medication in fighting depression, says massive new study

A groundbreaking study of 128,119 people has revealed something remarkable, exercise is more effective at reducing symptoms of depression than medication alone. Researchers found that physical activity, even in small amounts, significantly boosts mood, lowers anxiety, and improves overall mental well-being.

The study compared people who exercised regularly with those treated using antidepressant drugs. The results were clear: movement triggers powerful changes in the brain that medication can’t fully replicate. Exercise increases blood flow, enhances neuroplasticity, and releases endorphins and dopamine, chemicals that naturally lift mood and strengthen emotional resilience.

What’s most encouraging is that the type or intensity of exercise didn’t matter much. Walking, running, cycling, dancing, or strength training all helped. The key was consistency, moving your body regularly, even for 20 minutes a day, created lasting benefits.

While antidepressants can still be life-changing for many, this study shows that combining or even replacing medication with physical activity could transform how we treat depression.

Your body isn’t just made to move, it’s wired to heal through movement. Every step, stretch, or sprint is your brain’s natural antidepressant.

10/30/2025

Love this!!!

Quantum physics reveals that reality isn’t as fixed as it seems. On the tiniest scales, the simple act of observation can influence how particles behave a phenomenon known as the observer effect. Some researchers and psychologists draw an inspiring parallel to daily life, suggesting our focus, beliefs, and expectations may subtly influence how we experience reality.

In this view, thoughts are more than passing ideas they’re forms of energy that interact with the world around us. When you focus on growth instead of fear, or potential instead of limitation, your mindset may align with outcomes that reflect those frequencies.

Therapeutic approaches like Matrix Reimprinting explore this link between mind and matter by helping people reframe emotional memories and release stored stress. It’s a space where science, psychology, and energy awareness meet showing that how we perceive the world might just help shape what we live.

Credit: Sources American Psychological Association, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Scientific American, National Geographic, CERN.

09/03/2025

To all of my clients, and any person in this dynamic, I see you….

The WORST feeling for a woman is when she tries to have a conversation with a man about his BEHAVIOR that hurts her every day, but instead of listening, he gets ANGRY and turns the situation around on her.
It’s a feeling that cuts deep—a mix of frustration, sadness, and emotional abandonment. She gathers the courage to speak up, not to argue, not to attack, but because she loves him and wants to make things better. She speaks from a place of pain and hope, hoping that maybe this time, he will really hear her, that he will understand the weight she’s been silently carrying.

But instead of leaning in, he raises his defenses. Instead of acknowledging her feelings, he deflects. He gets loud, or cold, or sarcastic. He shifts the blame onto her, twisting her concerns into accusations against her character, her tone, her timing. Suddenly, the conversation becomes about how she brought it up instead of what she brought up. And just like that, her pain gets buried under his anger.

And it’s not just the argument that hurts—it’s the message underneath it all: Your feelings don’t matter. Your pain is inconvenient. Your voice is too much. That moment becomes a silent wound, another scar added to the emotional pile she’s been trying so hard to suppress for the sake of peace. But peace without understanding isn’t peace—it’s silence. It’s pretending. It’s walking on eggshells while slowly losing pieces of herself just to keep things from falling apart.

What’s worse is that after enough of these moments, she starts to question herself. “Maybe I am too sensitive.” “Maybe I should just let it go.” “Maybe it’s not a big deal.” But deep down, she knows it is. She knows what respect, empathy, and love should feel like—and this isn’t it.

When a woman reaches out to address something that hurts her, it’s a gift. It’s her saying, I still care enough to fix this. It’s a chance for connection, healing, and growth. But when that moment is met with anger or blame, it pushes her further away. Not just emotionally—but spiritually. Because nothing is more damaging to a woman’s spirit than constantly being made to feel wrong for wanting to be treated right.

08/27/2025

To all the mamas that I’ve met here, I see you.

I want to tell you a story about a mother in a hole.

It was a deep hole, and she’d been there for quite some time. In fact, she couldn’t quite remember when or how she’d even fallen.

She was starting to despair of ever getting out.

People around her were worried.

Her family threw down a rope, but she couldn’t climb up.

Her doctor threw down a rope, but she still couldn’t budge.

Then, another mother came along. She took one look in the hole, and like all of the others, tossed a rope over the edge.

And she climbed down.

“Wait, what are you doing down here with me?” The first mother was puzzled.

She looked the second mother in the eyes and saw the same pain and sadness and exhaustion reflected back at her. But there was something else, too.

There was hope.

And immeasurable strength.

The second mother gave a kind and knowing smile, and wrapped her arms around the first.

“I’ve been here before,” she said. “And I’m going to climb out with you.”

For all the mothers who climb down holes just to help another find her way back up. ❤️

** It felt like the right time to share this again. Mothers can find themselves in some dark holes—maybe someone you know is in one right now. Please, please reach out. And if you are currently in that hole yourself—you are not alone. Just say the word, and we will come down and get you.

08/03/2025

You can only learn to regulate an emotion when you allow yourself to feel. Suppressed emotions lead to dysregulation. Connecting with the tension in the body allows you to feel what you are holding, the first step to releasing unhealed feelings.

Come and practice this skill at Summer Soul Soothe Somatic Release:

https://www.lanalachance.com/groups

Live in Love, Live in Light,
LL

08/02/2025

Life stress impacts your neurological functioning and nervous system regulation. If this continues to go unaddressed it will lead to living a life out of harmony and balance. Allow me to help you come back into balance. Join the Summer Soul Soothe Somatic Session and heal your self:

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Live in Love, Live in Life,
LL

08/01/2025

Your life experience is a choice to live and learn or live and ignore, avoid, run. If you avoid life and the impact the experiences has on you eventually your body will react. If your body is sending signals to you, take the time to listen and joing my Summer Soul Soothe Somatic Release session:

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Live in Love, Live in Light,
LL

07/31/2025

Come paint your own landscape. Come write your own story. Come compose your own song. Arrive with me in this space and work on the greatest artwork of all time, you.

There is time to register for the Summer Soul Soothe Somatic Release Session:

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Live in Love, Live in Light,
LL

07/30/2025

As a licensend professional counselor for almost two decades, working with hundreds of people on their healing journey, the most effective, life altering healing comes from a holistic approach where the mind, the body and the spirit are integrated into one self.

Join me for my Summer Soul Soothe Somatic Release and experience this truth for yourself now:

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Live in Love, Live in Light,
LL

07/29/2025

Connecting with your soul is a process that requires traveling through the layers of yourself and connecting with the story the self has lived up to the moment of conscious awareness when you decide that this story no longer serves you. Once you arrive at this space the soul speaks and the moment of rewriting your truth arrives to you too. Somatic healing takes you on this journey back to yourself in a phsyical way where you don't need to know the story or tell the story just physically feel and release the story.

Join my Summer Soul Soothe Somatic Release and journey back to your soul:

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Live in Love, Live in Light,
LL

07/08/2025

Come be still at the Summer Soul Soothe--the July Session is Meditation, Sound Healing, Aromatherapy & Journaling and the August Session is Somatic Release and find your own freedom.

Register at: https://www.lanalachance.com/groups

Live in Love, Live in Light,