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Try this months Office Space Relaxation - It's Free!

Office Space Relaxation, updated December 14th 2009 - A brief stress buster for busy people.
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In The News April 2, 2009:

  

 Read about Gail in the Wiscasset Newspaper!

  Staff Reporter Susan Johns has written about Gail in the following article entitled:
  Edgecomb native dedicated to stress management, wellness

GUIDED IMAGERY

This therapeutic method utilizes working with the power of the imagination. This process has a positive impact by activating healing energy within the body and promoting a positive mental attitude. The body senses may be scripted and the client is guided by the practitioner.

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Our lives are filled with various stressors. Some examples of stressors are family, jobs, relationships and global events. The key component in dealing with stress is how we react to the stressors. When the body is continually in a state of stress, it is said to be in a hypervigilant state. If the body is continually subjected to this high alert stress state, there is a potential for many physiological changes to occur. Examples of these changes are high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and chronic headaches. The immune system may be overburdened, leaving the body open to infection and disease potentials. Here at Turning Leaves we help you develop tools to better cope with reaction to adverse stressors.

INTEGRATIVE IMAGERY

Integrative Imagery is a process of imagery that encompasses active participation in the process of health awareness, stress management and creative problem solving. Participants will learn skills to access inner strengths, aiding in stress management, dealing with chronic illness issues, and dealing with life changes.

PEGGY HUDDLESTON'S PREPARE FOR SURGERY HEAL FASTER

Both Gail and Jeanne offer Peggy Huddleston's Prepare For Surgery Heal Faster sessions, based on Peggy Huddleston's nationally acclaimed program. This program prepares the client for surgery, using the mind-body technique. This allows the client to access their own inner healing process, which promotes a more positive surgical experience. Call for more information on this cutting-edge therapy.

GUIDED MEDITATIONS FOR MENOPAUSAL JOURNEYS........A NEW RECORDING JUST FOR YOU

A slightly humorous reframing of your major menopausal symptoms Written and narrated by Gail Boudin,RN, Jeanne Goodrich,RN, Pat Kett,RN, Joyce Leatherman,RN, and Babs Vitale,RN. With heart and a large dollop of humor, the five guided meditations on this CD help you reframe your major menopausal symptoms. Why languish with your preconceived notions of night sweats and hot flashes, menopausal insomnia, foggy thinking and memory loss, mood swings and body changes? Untether yourself from cultural and patriarchal stereotypes. Learn what these previously burdensome menopausal moments really are! Written and narrated by five nurses who are friends and crones well versed in the passage, Guided Mediations for Menopausal Moments will give you exactly what you need to make each menopausal moment a welcomed affirmation of your hormonally altered aura. Suck in that chi like a vacuum cleaner (hot flashes), embrace the private moments for creativity (menopausal insomnia), visit the mood swing playground and more! Laugh, cry, relax, let go and embrace your glorious moments of powerful womanhood with this playful yet profound CD. Guided Meditations for Menopausal Moments: just what you need!