Let go of what doesn’t serve you. Several weeks ago, during a yoga session with the amazing Joanna Yates, I was struggling with some crazy hard pose she asked us to do, and I heard her say “Let go of what doesn’t serve you at this moment.” Now, I have heard this phrase before, but […]
My ideas for this post seem more in line with Thanksgiving so maybe I am late but since being grateful is always a good thing, I will go with it. Gratitude is a concept that is discussed quite often here in therapy sessions. Focusing on what we are grateful for doesn’t change or eliminate the […]
Arguably the fall colors in our part of the WV were nothing to write home about this year. It was a bit disappointing not to see the vibrancy and variety of colors generally worn by these mountains. But here at Shayna Meadows, we still had a glorious fall, full of light and color, and we […]
We are offering this wonderful workshop once more this fall, Saturday October 15th The focus of the workshop is to provide a time and space to stop, take a deep breath and focus on YOU. In a beautiful outdoors setting and with the help of the horse herd, we will seek to look at ourselves […]
In my work, I hear a lot of scary stuff…either scary things that have happened to people or scary things that they are currently enduring and passing though. Life takes us into scary territory, frightening places, way more often than we would like. We would all rather hang out in our well furnished comfort zones. […]
Shayna Meadows Therapy and Wellness is offering a Women’s Wellness Workshop, September 17th from 10:00am to 12:30pm. The focus of the workshop is to provide a time and space to stop, take a deep breath and focus on YOU. In a beautiful outdoors setting and with the help of the horse herd, we will seek […]
Here’s what happened in a therapy session a few days ago: the client and I began the session both with the same yet unspoken idea that the session needed to be about “sitting with” the difficult emotions that she is experiencing. But before we got to that, we were processing some insights she had from […]
I have had a hard time finding time to write a post for the website because it has been so wonderfully busy lately. On any given day, I feel both overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done and overjoyed at the smiles on the faces of kids on horses and the moments of […]
It’s the beginning of an exciting spring here at Shayna Meadows. In contrast to this time last year, when I was lamenting how long it was taking to get things up to full speed, now I am greeting clients daily and watching my herd of now five horses bring hope and healing to the folks […]
Well, we survived the big blizzard of 2016 pretty well here at Shayna Meadows. We are thankful we didn’t get the heavier snow falls that places in Virginia got, but 18 inches is still a lot to deal with. It’s interesting to watch how the horses deal with this extreme change to their environment. Snow […]