Category Archives: Meditation

March 9th Healing Saturdays: Visions of Womanhood

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Visions of Womanhood
Melissa Kester, LMFT & Sarah Lebeck-Jobe, MS

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Last year we did a creative workshop that nurtured so much positivity amongst attendees, we decided to do it again.

Melissa Kester, LMFT & Sarah Lebeck-Jobe, MS will lead a creative healing group where we explore our personal connection to our feminine selves. We will have a playful couple of hours discussing what the idea of womanhood evokes in each of us. We also will create drawings to assist in our exploration of our personal visions of womanhood.

This month’s charity is Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS).  GEMS’ mission is to empower girls and young women, ages 12–24, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth.

Details

  • Time:  11:00am – 1:00pm
  • Donation:  $25
  • Profits go to a different charity each month
  • Location: Madison MFT, 271 Madison Avenue, Suite 1400, between 39th & 40th
  • Please RSVP due to limited space: email info@madisonmft.com or call 917.488.6364

Journey Towards Happiness

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Real happiness cannot exist when we are not free.  Burdened by so may ambitions, we are not able to be free.  We are always grasping at something; there are so many things we want to do at the same time, and that is why we do not have the time to live.  We thing that the burdens we carry are necessary for our happiness, that if they are taken from us we will suffer.

However, if we look more closely, we shall see that the things at which we grasp, the things that keep us constantly busy, are in fact obstacles to our being happy.  In letting go of them, we learn that true happiness can only come by way of freedom, an awakened life, and the practice of love and compassion.  ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness Anger Management

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If we can hold our anger, our sorrow, and our fear with the energy of mindfulness, we will be able to recognize the roots of our suffering. We will be able to recognize the suffering in the people we love as well. Mindfulness helps us to not be angry at our loved ones, because when we are mindful, we understand that our loved ones are suffering as well. ~Thich Nhat Hanh