ReStory Summer Series
FREE conversations hosted by our team
Join ReStory for unique conversations on topics such as digital media, self-care, and integrative approaches to mental health.
Free. No need to RSVP. At our office on Harvard, 5:30-6:30pm.
June 24: Digital Media: Why the Medium Matters As Much as the Content with Leslie Coy
We all have some idea that the digital age has had a profound effect on us as individuals and as a collective culture. What are social media, video gaming, and limitless access to limitless information doing to our brains, our relationships, and our mental health? And how do we make technology work for us, while still living into the values we hold most dear?
July 8: Cultivating the Emotional Landscape: Emotional Care, Connection, and Regulation with Sherae Mulligan
The word cultivate means to nurture or to help grow. When it comes to our emotional experience it can feel more like we are managing than cultivating. How often do we stuff our feelings down, numb, ignore, feel shamed for feeling a certain way, or have explosive moments where our emotions come out sideways, seemingly out of nowhere, and now we are left cleaning up a mess? Our emotional landscape can often feel messy, like a place of tension, confusion, and difficulty, or possibly even barren or non-existent because our emotions have been neglected for so long.
What might it look like to lean in to, bring curiosity, and tend to our emotions? Creating space for emotional capacity to develop and grow as we nurture the parts of us that have been shamed, ignored, and left to their own devices. What if our emotions could be of benefit to us, more than an annoyance? What if anger, frustration, desire, joy, sadness, and pain, are all pointing us back to what needs to be cared for and tended to in our lives?
During this session a few things you can expect:
Discussion on how when cared for our emotions can point us towards a greater healing, and a better understanding of ourselves and our needs, and can benefit our relationships.
A space to discuss what it looks like to cultivate and tend to our emotions
Practical tools, mindfulness practice, and support for emotional care and regulation
July 22: Her Rites- A Sacred Journey for the Mind, Body, and Soul with special guest Dr. Christy Bauman
Every woman wants wholeness—to be at home in her body, in her relationships, in her life. But women too often feel that they don’t belong to themselves. The path to wholeness, to a woman belonging to herself, is formidable, and women know they can’t travel it alone.
In Her Rites, Dr. Bauman takes you into her office and through six transformative exercises: a deep dive into the most common rites of passage in every woman’s life, when she sometimes loses hold of herself but also has a unique opportunity to reclaim herself.
August 5: When Self-Care Isn’t Enough with Ashley Ward
Since it gained traction in 2016, self-care and wellness have climbed to a 41 billion dollar industry. Google searches for self-care increased 250% at the height of the pandemic, and everywhere we look, someone is selling us something. But how did we get here, and why is self-care is burdening women with more shame, a longer to-do list, and promises that it doesn’t keep? Come be freed from the shame of not being “good enough” at self-care, and learn why it was never meant to be enough after all.
August 26: Integrative and Holistic Approaches to Mental Health with Julie Kittredge
Come explore how the role of food, lifestyle, and nutrition impacts our mental health. Gut health and inflammation in the body have a huge impact on mental health including depression, anxiety, and cognitive function. Julie Kittredge is pursuing a certification in Integrative Mental Health and will facilitate a conversation about how we can learn to address mental and emotional well-being through an integrative and holistic approach as we consider natural ways to tend to mental and emotional health.