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10/30/2019 0 Comments Gratitude starts at home November is here and that means you’ve probably already seen about 942 memes or posts about having an attitude of gratitude... and you know what? We say, bring it on! It’s pretty much impossible to overestimate the power of gratitude, so in our book, 942 is just a start. At Complete Wellness, one of the things we’re most grateful for is you. And us. Together. In this space. Complete Wellness is like a second home for us. It’s a home for the magical, inspiring, talented, loving community that gathers here to share and heal and express and grow and give. We are thankful for the clients and for every person (human and canine) whose presence makes this space a home. And not just any home, but *the* home-- you know, the one everyone wants to come to because it’s always full of cool people doing cool stuff, and when you walk in you know you’re part of a family whose connection mends hearts and bodies and uplifts spirits. This November, we invite you to join us in an exploration of what it means to be grateful. What are you grateful for? What do you share that brings out gratitude in others? Where do you find a space for expressing your gratitude? Let’s find out together! AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC
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9/30/2019 0 Comments The beauty of letting go If it feels like just last week that you were packing up for a last minute day trip to the shore, that’s because it probably was! The suddenness of red and gold and brown where mere days ago there was only green seems to have caught even nature by surprise, as the temperature scrambles to catch up to the expected crispness of the season. But since Autumn is all about letting go, we’re thinking that makes sense. The trees have to let go of the idea that flourishing green lasts forever. Summer has to loosen its grasp, reining in its balmy days so swirling winds and lengthening shadows can come out to play. And we have to let go of… so much. It would be easier if all we had to release was our attachment to long, bright days and warm starlit nights, but life gives us far more to consider. It also gives us the best kind of teacher--one who instructs by example. Nature shows us the grace of letting what is no longer ours find its way free, on a different current. She shows us that the parting can be graceful, even beautiful. And she shows us that when, like her trees, we are firmly planted, the places that “lost” don’t stay bare for long. This October, we invite you to join us in an exploration of what it means to let go. What is no longer serving you that can be released? What does letting go look like? What does it open the door to? Let’s find out together! AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 8/22/2019 0 Comments Back to School You see it start mid-summer. First it’s an ad in the paper. A commercial. A tastefully arranged display at the supermarket showcasing pens and highlighters. In August it picks up in volume and intensity, and by the time the first pumpkin spice latte makes its cinnamon and nutmeg infused appearance, it’s everywhere: Back to school! The phrase elicits an array of responses, from the reluctance of students and the eager anticipation of parents to the particular mixture of both known only to teachers. This year, it also got us thinking... What does ”back to school” mean for us? Most of us reading this blog are no longer in school in any official capacity, but does school always coincide with learning? What other ways do we learn? What things do we focus on learning? And how do we tend to the expansion of our mind, imagination, and spirit when it’s left entirely to us to manage? This September, we invite you to join us in an exploration of what it means to be a student...of life, of the Universe, of all that IS. We invite you to embrace the lifelong learner in you--the part of you that gets curious, fascinated, excited, and motivated to know more. We invite you to go back to school with us, and to share what you learn. Also feel free to share your pumpkin spice latte! AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC  "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter." - Henry David Thoreau At Complete Wellness, we’re all about being in the moment... which is why this month’s blog might seem a bit strange at first, but hang in there with us for a moment to explore an idea… Every season has its gifts and beauty and purpose, and we’re all for going with the flow and embracing them as they happen. But as we get ready for the last month of summer, we’re thinking that it’s possible to enter into each season fully while still treasuring the best feelings and lessons we’ve experienced so far. What does that mean for us right now? It means that the warmth, freedom, and joy of summer can remain as a spark in our hearts as we prepare for quieter seasons, keeping the embers lit until it is their time to blaze again next year. This August, we invite you to savor the remaining days of summer with us, and to join us in an exploration and celebration of the ways we can keep just a bit of its light and warmth with us to tap into whenever we need it throughout the year. AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 6/30/2019 0 Comments Declaring Our Independence With the 4th of July around the corner we’ve got independence on our minds. Just a tad over 200 years ago a bunch of scrappy colonists gave the boot--and probably a few other gestures--to King George. And just a just a few blocks away, at Liberty Hall, stands a replica of the Liberty Bell, which the citizens of Quakertown helped to keep safe during the Revolutionary War. From this we learn two things: First, don’t mess with Quakertown. And second, freedom is possible anywhere, if you declare it and take action. At Complete Wellness, we’re using the month of July to focus on freedom, and asking ourselves the question, what am I ready to declare my independence from? Maybe it’s a nutritional habit that doesn’t serve our well-being. Maybe it’s the tendency to put our own self-care on the back burner. Maybe it’s a limiting belief that’s holding us back from being as happy and healthy as we can be, Whatever it is, overthrowing it has got to be at least as doable as defying the might of the British Empire. This July, we invite you to join us in an exploration of freedom, and a declaration of independence from whatever is keeping us from the fullest expression of our sovereign right to be ourselves, free, happy, and well. AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 6/1/2019 0 Comments The gateway to summer “June is the gateway to summer.” --Jean Hershey OK, so maybe this year June feels more like the floodgate-way to summer, but gateway it is, and at Complete Wellness, a gateway is an invitation to do one of our favorite things: make a grand and bold and celebratory declaration! So without further ado, we are declaring 2019 to be the Summer of You. Each month, we’ll focus on a theme to help make the season a time of joy, reclamation, reconnection, and happy discovery. And of course, it all starts with wellness. In fact, June is the perfect month to debunk a common wellness-related myth about that quintessential summer theme: vacations. (SPOILER ALERT: we’re about to turn yet another commonly held belief on its head and present an alternative that actually supports wellness.) Our culture focuses on vacation as a single event that is meant to restore your well-being after a year of ignoring the needs of body and soul in the frenetic pursuit of Working to Achieve Goals. No wonder we’re experiencing skyrocketing rates of burnout! We’re kicking off the Summer of You with a June theme that offers a different path--and a different result--by declaring that Wellness is a State of Mind & Body. Now don’t get us wrong, we think vacations are awesome! But we also think that wellness isn’t something you have to put off to a once a year event or something you have to travel to. Wellness is a state of mind and body, and it’s only as far away as a new thought or action. This June, we invite you to join us in an exploration and celebration of all the ways we can embrace new thoughts and actions to incorporate wellness into our everyday lives, right here, right now. Welcome, Summer! AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 5/6/2019 0 Comments Celebrating Whole Health It’s a month that kicks off with May Day flowers, Beltane festivities, and the joyous embrace of all things living and growing and loving. May awakens our senses and invites us to explore the vibrancy of life with passion and joy. It’s about fullness, wholeness, and wholeheartedness, so we thought it was the perfect month to focus on whole health. There’s a Chinese proverb that says, “When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.” Not only do we agree, but here at Complete Wellness, we see ancient wisdom about the heart-body connection and raise it our own take on community and connections of all kinds. When we say “whole health,” then, what we mean is:
This May, we invite you to join us in an exploration and celebration of whole health. We can’t wait to see what magic unfolds! AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 3/22/2019 0 Comments Growing with Spring Spring is here, and as days begin to lengthen all of nature abandons itself to the loving gaze of the sun, stretching, unfurling, and welcoming the growth that was just a whispered promise during winter’s quiet. AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC. 2/28/2019 0 Comments Making Your Own Luck Legend has it that the first three leaves of a four-leaf clover symbolize faith, hope, and love, and that God added the fourth leaf for luck. Now we love legends as much as the next quirky group of natural healing and wellness advocates, but this one got us thinking… What happens if you find a three-leaf clover? Does that mean that all you get is faith, hope, and love? That doesn’t sound too unlucky to us! And just how uncommon are four-leaf clovers? Turns out they are a mutation of the three-leaf kind, so they are pretty rare--but not as rare as...wait for it...FIVE-LEAF clovers, or, better yet if the logic holds, the uber elusive six-leaf clover. When it comes to accessing luck through the appendages of plant life, it may well be fun, but it also seems a bit ... arbitrary. And understanding that may be the biggest stroke of “luck” yet. The dictionary defines luck as “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.” You may have noticed we like to put our own twist on things (think chronic wellness instead of chronic illness, and wellness revolution instead of resolutions), so we’re going to do it here, too. In the universe of Complete Wellness, luck isn’t about chance, or our success or failure (as if things were as simple as that anyway, lol!) depending on outside forces we have no influence over. It’s about claiming our own power and manifesting our own wellness and abundance. OK, so we didn’t so much tweak the definition as propose its exact opposite. Nonetheless, this March, we’re suggesting that our own actions have the power to shape our wellness and our lives. Oh, don’t get us wrong--we’re still going to clap when we find clovers of any kind, and delight in the idea of leprechauns and all manner of supposedly legendary creatures--but we’re going to do it knowing that each one of us has the power to make our own “luck.” Join us this month for a fun exploration of legend and our own brand of “luck”--you may just spot a few clovers along the way. AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 1/31/2019 1 Comment The heart of the matter Somewhere around the second week of January, it started. Stores pulled their tinsel and garland-themed finery from their shelves and windows, replacing them with shiny pink and velvety red. In a matter of days the transformation was complete, and now, there’s no escaping it: Valentine’s Day is upon us, with all of its chocolate-covered expectations. So now that February is here we’d like to do, well, what we like to do at Complete Wellness: take something that is expected and commercialized and charged with varying degrees of stress and turn it over, looking deeper, until we find the thing that can resonate with heart, mind, body, and soul. Turns out, it comes down to love. The sappy, doe-eyed kind that Hallmark banks on? Yes. It’s that. It’s also the mischievous glance between friends at an inside joke. The unexpected, unguarded smile of a stranger. The boundless joy of your dog when you come home. The parent’s eighty-fifth attempt to get her child to eat vegetables. The adult child’s arm around the shoulders of an elderly parent. The contentment of our own grace-filled company. The poet Rumi says, “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” Every thing. That’s even more than every one. If we take Rumi at his word, Love is everything we’ve already said, plus: the dialogue of warmth between us and the sun, the fluid touch of water when we dive into its embrace, the ancient blessing of a tree whose branches whisper above us and whose roots build mazes below us. It comes down to Love, in all of its everyday splendor. This month, we invite you to connect on an even deeper level with all of the Loves in your life, from romantic and familial love to friendship and self-love. We’ll be sharing inspiration and ideas as well as some special events. Finally, we’ll be taking Rumi’s advice, and we hope you’ll join us: “Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.” AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC |
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