Foundational
Values of Healing Connections Wellness Center
Foundational
Values of Healing Connections Wellness Center
Creating an atmosphere and relationship where every person feels seen, heard, validated, and supported throughout their experiences.
Providing a space where people can find connection to safe people and helpful resources regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, or income level.
Honoring and respecting each person’s humanity and the life experiences that shaped them to be who they are today.
Supporting and empowering people on their therapeutic journey that allows for transformation, healing, and growth.
Encouraging holistic wellness for every human we come into contact with.
Helping people connect to and engage with their body and mind in a new way that allows us to feel anchored in safety and deepens self-understanding and self-compassion.
Helping raise awareness and understanding about health and wellness.
Helping people disrupt old maladaptive ways of thinking and being and open and strengthen healthier and adaptive ways of being.
Helping people to see their inherent worth and value as they are, not as they have been defined to be by others.
Helping people understand trauma as anything that is too much for too long, too little for too long, or too much too soon and in these experiences, there was no one attuned to them to help them through it or to make sense of it.
How Can We Help?
At Healing Connections Wellness Center, we specialize in many different areas. These are just a few of the areas that our experienced counselors can help.
If you are dealing with any of these issues, please call us at 855-805-HOPE (4673).
Addiction Recovery
Anxiety
Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Behavioral issues
Bipolar disorder
Body Image issues
Depression
Divorce
Disordered Eating
Domestic Violence
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Why you can "know" you're safe and still feel unsafe. You can be somewhere totally fine, telling yourself "there's no danger here"-and your body feels as if a lion is chasing you. This isn't you being dramatic. Neuroscientist Stephen Porges calls it neuroception: your nervous system scanning for danger, constantly, below conscious thought. This is why "just calm down" doesn't work. You can't logic your way out of a response that never used logic in the first place. It's not the facts around you that decide how safe you feel. It's your body's subjective read of them. Feeling unsafe when you're technically fine isn't a flaw. It's your nervous system doing its very old, very literal job. Healing isn't convincing your mind you're safe. It's teaching your body. ...
No matter how perfect your relationship is, we're all in an endless dance of harmony, disharmony, and repair. The problem is nobody told us that. And nobody taught us how to come back. Allow yourself to move away from a belief you have to avoid ruptures and instead look at the beautiful opportunity for growth and strengthening of your relationships through healthy repair! ...
Anything on this list can flip into the opposite of a superpower. Anxiety can get loud and debilitating. It can override the calm, authentic part of you and spiral things out of control fast. That is really hard sometimes. But when we start to see it as fuel (at times) instead of the enemy, we can learn to work with it instead of against it. At the end of the day, this part is trying to keep you safe and protected. It's sole job is to ensure your safety and survival. It just gets a little over the top sometimes when it's not nurtured. It's less about silencing it and more about sensing it, supporting it, and understanding it. Learn it's patterns instead of fighting them. Once you learn how to work with it, it stops running the show and starts having your back which can be a superpower. ...
The guilt you feel right after saying no? It's evidence that you learned something a long time ago. Somewhere along the way, your mind picked up a rule. Other people's comfort comes first. Your needs are negotiable. Disappointing someone is dangerous, even when you're the one you're protecting. That rule didn't start with the boundary you just set. It started years earlier, in whatever room taught you that being easy to manage was safer than being honest. So the guilt is a signal of how long you practiced abandoning yourself to keep the peace. Guilt and wrongdoing are not the same feeling, even though they can feel identical in your body. Learn to tell them apart, and you'll stop mistaking discomfort for evidence you should undo what you just did. The boundary was the first sign you're done abandoning yourself. ...
When we hear the word "trauma," we often think of the big, catastrophic events. But that's not the only kind of trauma that we experience in our lives. We also carry wounds from early trauma formed in our relationships. The emotional absence, the roles you were never supposed to carry, or the parts of yourself you learned to hide just to keep the peace. This trauma shows up in the way you handle conflict, the way you over-function to feel worthy, or the way closeness feels dangerous even when you want it. You may not call it trauma. But these are wounds that shape every relationship you're in-and the ones you're passing down. The best gift you can give your children is your own health and recovery! Reach out today @ healingcwc.com to get connected to the support you deserve for your healing journey! ...
Why you can "know" you're safe and still feel unsafe. You can be somewhere totally fine, telling yourself "there's no danger here"-and your body feels as if a lion is chasing you. This isn't you being dramatic. Neuroscientist Stephen Porges calls it neuroception: your nervous system scanning for danger, constantly, below conscious thought. This is why "just calm down" doesn't work. You can't logic your way out of a response that never used logic in the first place. It's not the facts around you that decide how safe you feel. It's your body's subjective read of them. Feeling unsafe when you're technically fine isn't a flaw. It's your nervous system doing its very old, very literal job. Healing isn't convincing your mind you're safe. It's teaching your body. ...
No matter how perfect your relationship is, we're all in an endless dance of harmony, disharmony, and repair. The problem is nobody told us that. And nobody taught us how to come back. Allow yourself to move away from a belief you have to avoid ruptures and instead look at the beautiful opportunity for growth and strengthening of your relationships through healthy repair! ...
Anything on this list can flip into the opposite of a superpower. Anxiety can get loud and debilitating. It can override the calm, authentic part of you and spiral things out of control fast. That is really hard sometimes. But when we start to see it as fuel (at times) instead of the enemy, we can learn to work with it instead of against it. At the end of the day, this part is trying to keep you safe and protected. It's sole job is to ensure your safety and survival. It just gets a little over the top sometimes when it's not nurtured. It's less about silencing it and more about sensing it, supporting it, and understanding it. Learn it's patterns instead of fighting them. Once you learn how to work with it, it stops running the show and starts having your back which can be a superpower. ...
The guilt you feel right after saying no? It's evidence that you learned something a long time ago. Somewhere along the way, your mind picked up a rule. Other people's comfort comes first. Your needs are negotiable. Disappointing someone is dangerous, even when you're the one you're protecting. That rule didn't start with the boundary you just set. It started years earlier, in whatever room taught you that being easy to manage was safer than being honest. So the guilt is a signal of how long you practiced abandoning yourself to keep the peace. Guilt and wrongdoing are not the same feeling, even though they can feel identical in your body. Learn to tell them apart, and you'll stop mistaking discomfort for evidence you should undo what you just did. The boundary was the first sign you're done abandoning yourself. ...
When we hear the word "trauma," we often think of the big, catastrophic events. But that's not the only kind of trauma that we experience in our lives. We also carry wounds from early trauma formed in our relationships. The emotional absence, the roles you were never supposed to carry, or the parts of yourself you learned to hide just to keep the peace. This trauma shows up in the way you handle conflict, the way you over-function to feel worthy, or the way closeness feels dangerous even when you want it. You may not call it trauma. But these are wounds that shape every relationship you're in-and the ones you're passing down. The best gift you can give your children is your own health and recovery! Reach out today @ healingcwc.com to get connected to the support you deserve for your healing journey! ...
