Tired of working hard throughout the week, only to feel like you have no energy left over for yourself, your loved ones, and your passions?

As busy New Yorkers, our modern life and culture prioritizes working and hustling over rest and recuperation. The output does not match the input of energy. We get out of sync with what our body needs and with nature’s timing. Ongoing overwork and undernourishment leads to increased fatigue, stress, a weakened immune system, and lower quality of life as we age.

We sweet, mortal humans tend to complain about age and all the changes that it brings.

We’re keen on viewing these changes as inconveniences, as though we are becoming paradoxically “less than” even as we gain so much more in the way of experience, insight, maturity, clarity, groundedness, evolution, wisdom. 

And the truth is, friends, that life is long and short.

REPAIRING RELATIONSHIPS WITH SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

In this interview we are joined by Heidi Schaul-Yoder, Holistic Psychotherapist, Certified Gestalt Therapist and New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst, who talks to us about relational repair and how somatic psychotherapy helps us reconnect the multiple parts of our own self, finding balance and harmony.

RELAXATION - THE FORGOTTEN KEY TO HEALING

In this interview we are joined by Alison Roehs, Licensed Acupuncturist and Massage Therapist, who shares with us how relaxation as a treatment in and of itself is often overlooked. Guiding her patients to find a relaxed state in the beginning of her sessions has proven to help the work on both their mind and body.