Phoenix Rising Solutions, LLC

I have been doing a lot of inner work on many levels and will be focusing on spirituality and nutrition for my new adventures to add to services offered by Phoenix Rising Solutions, LLC. I have transitioned out of teaching yoga after 17 years and retaining the scientific and healing properties of the postures and breath work for counseling clients and in workshops/retreats.

Hopefully in the future, I can offer mindful movement classes. In this season of life, know that I am still here to offer mind-body counseling with various research-based polyvagal and/or trauma-informed lens: Somatic Experiencing, Transforming Touch, forest therapy walks, attachment as well as inner child work. I also offer nutrition education, supplement purchases, and inner healing prayer for those desiring to explore these adjunct services.

Blessings and peace.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and I’m happy to share with you about a unique experience from this past month.

I was invited along with 20+ other mental health professionals (including licensed counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers; educators; and psychiatric and/or family nurse practitioners) to tour Sierra Tucson in Arizona. It was a great experience to see an integrative and holistic mental health treatment center in such a beautiful setting. They specialize in anxiety and mood disorders, trauma, and addictions, also offering a veteran’s red, white, and blue program.

Beyond the standard IOP, PHP, inpatient, and detox programs, they offered adventure therapy (e.g., ropes courses), equine therapy, naturopathic medicine, Somatic Experiencing (part of my expertise), EMDR, hikes, art therapy, improv, among other complementary therapies.

Let me know if you have questions about a higher level of care from the outpatient, office sessions that private practice providers offer. We have local places like Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, which has a wonderful history and reputation for their breath and depth of programs they offer.

However, some may want to stay residentially in a more natural environment with a lot of access to the outdoors. Quite frankly, Tucson has much better weather in the winter than we do, mountains, desert climate, saguaro (sah-wow-row) cactus, and a lovely Native American feel as much of the Southwestern land is owned by different Tribal Nations.

Check out their website for more information. Have a wonderful week ahead! ☀️⛰️🌵♥️

Premier Residential Treatment Center: Drug Rehab & Behavioral Health | Sierra Tucson Sierra Tucson is one of the nation's premier residential treatment centers for drug addiction, alcohol abuse and mental health like depression, bipolar, PTSD & co-occurring disorders for over 30 years.

Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and all other holidays and celebrations! May you have a Blessed New Year that brings an abundance of health, joy, and peace. Be the light 🌟.

Something to help us slow down, to contemplate on the simplest things in life, and to know that even a small gesture is sometimes the sweetest.

Happy Gratitude Day! 🍁

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

Praying by Mary Oliver

International Stress Awareness Week

Do at least one thing today that will fill your cup with calm.
- 5-minute meditation, deep belly breathing, or sit spot (forest therapy practice)
- take a slow mindful walk
- self-massage without or with oil (Ayurvedic abhyanga)
- drink your favorite herbal tea, cocoa, apple cider, or other warm drink
- do 5 minutes of postures, stretching, tai chi/qi gong (much gentler movement for people who cannot get down on a mat), or dance
- listen to healing music, classical music, calming piano/guitar, adagios, etc
- journal your greatest strengths and what you like about yourself
- eat well today by limiting caffeine, sugar, and seed oils
- take brain supportive supplements that help the nervous system to function better

Ask me about integrative counseling sessions, somatic/touch work, mindful movement classes, forest therapy walks, nutrition, and more to help you reduce your stress. www.phoenixrisingsolutions.org

This seems fitting for the time of year in season and with the political divisiveness that has been encountered this year. This is a great reminder to find ways to connect to gratitude and with nature to strengthen your heart in times of stress and turmoil.

Counseling…Fitness/Stretching…Prayer/Meditation…Touch Work…Forest Therapy…Nutrition.
Let me know how I can help you find more regulation in your life.

This poem is Blessings by Mary Oliver. Enjoy!

It’s that time again to celebrate full moon meditation 🧘🏻‍♀️ 🧘🏽 This month’s supermoon looks so luminous with the naked eye this evening as I was driving home. Maybe it will also look that way tomorrow evening for meditation. Join me and other universal love and peace seekers to sit wherever you are or online with .meditation.center or where they have Zoom sessions for the different full moon meditations.
Look to previous posts for inspiration and advice on how to meditate. Here are simple instructions: sit with your spine straight, hips elevated higher than knees /put cushion under you hips, use deep diaphragmatic/belly breathing, and find a neutral or positive mental focus to come back to if your mind wanders (e.g., mantra, short prayer, affirmations, follow your breath). You will find that after regular meditation practice that your focus, memory, mood, and feeling present in life improves. Regular practice would be every day even if for 5 minutes. Typical is 20 minutes per day but you can start out low and slow to build a healthy habit.
Drop a comment ⬇️ about how your meditation practice is going or if you’d like to start one.
Happy Meditating and Happy Hunter’s Moon 🌝

Harvest/Wisdom Full Moon on Tuesday 9/17 at 9-10pm Central. Join unity and peace seekers in meditating tomorrow evening from the comfort of your own home or through two other yoga centers that I’ll tag below. You can look at other full moon 🌝 posts for guidance on meditation 🧘🏻‍♀️ 🧘🏽.

This is a death anniversary 🕊️ of someone very close to me, so it will be a whole day of mindfulness about this person’s impact on my life amidst the robust and sometimes chaotic energy around the full moon.

Journaling before or after meditation is a great way to further your self-study. You may choose to focus on balance in your life at the nearing Autumnal Equinox, the coming darker days as we usher in Fall and Winter, the various upcoming holidays, the wisdom you have harvested from the year, and/or other topics important to you.

May your meditation sessions be filled with truth, love, and light on this day and subsequent days. Until next time…♥️🌳🌾.

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