In Warrior III, we're instructed to feel ourselves reaching in all four directions - the crown of the head, the heel of the extended foot, each of the arms in opposition. But I've always found that I best achieve balance when I sense extending into 6 directions: east, west, north, south - and down to [...]
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Humble Warrior: Strength in Surrender
Humble Warrior pose teaches us there is strength in surrender. Courage is required to rest our defenses and show up vulnerable to the world, to our experiences, and to our relationships with loving grace - a heart-centered trust that when we stand rooted in our values and our mission, then our unique gifts will align [...]
Calm & Connected
Now enrolling for the Fall series of Calm & Connected. Middle school and high school groups for anyone who identifies as female. Do you wish you had people who "just get" you? Do you struggle to find friends? Is it hard to feel like you belong? Are you worried about doing and saying the [...]
Therapy While Walking on the Trails
Want to take a walk? Contact Meg to get started with Walk and Talk Therapy. 706-372-1772 or email therapy@meghanharbin.com Even though it's nearly May in Georgia, the air was cool and damp, thick with mossy scents of forest and mud. A large woodpecker kept pace with me, and a family of deer scampered across my [...]
Let the Harry Potter Themed Therapy Begin!
“If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourselves into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then [...]
Nature is Congratulation
Sometimes, as she sat here, she imagined herself as her own distant ancestor: One step ahead of something large and hungry, she had leaped into branches and shinnied up a tall tree. At these times she looked out over the rooftops toward the sea, but did not, she said, see the cityscape. She saw savanna—the rolling, [...]
Healing with Yoga
Wondering how yoga can help? Often chalked up to "just a bunch of stretching," this powerful practice is often underrated in its ability to heal. Yoga is not just a form of exercise, but rather a spiritual practice with a physical fitness component, harboring incredible transformative qualities for practitioners. David Emerson recognized that yoga could [...]
What Are You Waiting For?
For most of us, when we were younger, we couldn't wait to grow up. What was it you wanted to do? What grand adventure could you not wait to begin? Are you living the life you've hoped? Ready to get reacquainted with the insatiable sense of wonder you carried as a child? Call or email [...]
8 Ways Our Thoughts Play Tricks
"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Ghandi When put like that, it's tough to argue with Ghandi. Our thoughts are powerful. Sometimes our thoughts can trick us, and [...]
When Therapy Ends Unexpectedly
This job is hard. Yes, we sit and we talk and we listen. The job rarely requires us to do the heavy lifting of construction, or the rigorous routine of running laps around a restaurant, or quick calculations of medications. But the responsibility of holding the sacred space, of guarding others' secrets, of bearing witness [...]