 "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
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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  The New Year is fast approaching, and with it all the usual trappings of the holiday: parties, noise-makers and sparkly hats, a toast at midnight, and the self-recriminating guilt over the things in our lives we haven’t mastered yet--a.k.a. resolutions.Here’s what it often sounds like: “This is the year I’m finally going to lose weight/get out of debt/travel/get a better job….” Or the even more angst-filled, “When January 1 hits I have to get myself in gear and finally start..” This is the language of guilt. And guilt poisons the soil of even the best-intentioned new endeavors, replacing creative possibility with shame over having been a failure to this point in our lives at the project in question and intense pressure to get it right this trip around the sun. Is it any surprise 80% of us abandon our New Year’s resolutions by February? At Complete Wellness, we’re proposing a different approach. One that supports, well, complete wellness--that happy synergy of mind, body, and spirit operating with their innate power and intertwined pathways of grace and beauty. And it starts with absolving ourselves from the shame-cycle of resolutions. Once free of the illusion that we “have to” do anything to be better, worthy, or happy, we can focus on the two things that actually lead to wellness: gratitude and practice. Instead of resolutions, we hope you’ll join us in setting realistic and wellness-based goals where the first step is gratitude for what you’ve already done. Start with a celebration, map out a few steps you can embrace to promote a practice of wellness in whatever area feels best for you, and let yourself enjoy what grows from soil you’ve tended with kindness. Throughout this month, our wellness practitioners will be sharing their thoughts on healthy goal-setting in different areas of well-being to help along the way. May each of us greet the New Year as 365 gifts, ours to cherish, ours to cultivate, and ours to share with love. AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC 11/30/2018 0 Comments The Present of Presence The holiday season is upon us. For some of us that means Christmas. For some Hanukkah. For others, Solstice. For most of us, though, it also means...work. Consider the way we say it: The holidays are upon us. There’s an unspoken “so get busy!” at the end of that sentence. But whatever your tradition, when you look into the heart of what it really means to you, you probably won’t find “busyness.” So how do we bridge the gap between busyness and meaning? You know the meme with the alternate Holiday To Do List? It asks us to trade "busy" tasks for more meaningful ones, like this: "Buy presents" becomes "Be present." "Wrap gifts" becomes "Wrap someone in a hug." "Send cards" becomes "Send peace." "Make cookies" becomes "Make memories." "Shop for food" becomes "Donate food." "See the lights" becomes "Be the light." That. Let's do that. We know the world is a hectic place and there’s lots of stuff that goes on this month. But it will all feel much more, well, like a holiday even if we did one or two of those things. This holiday season, we wish you the gift of presence. May you be present for your family, for your friends, and for whatever tradition you hold dear. And may you be present for those still, starlit moments when all those things fall silent before the dawn of new light. AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC. 10/28/2018 1 Comment The Gift That Keeps Giving This week we enter into the month of Thanksgiving--things like holiday prep, family, turkey (or tofurkey!) will take on increasing space in our thoughts and days, and we’ll be reminded once more that whatever is going on in our lives, somewhere, somehow, we’ve got a seat at a table of bounty where the centerpiece is a cornucopia, filled to the brim and spilling over, with blessings. For each of us the seat, the table, and the horn of plenty may look different, but the response is the same: gratitude. And the best part? Gratitude is itself a gift, crowning its giver with grace and oh so much well-being. We invite you to enter into this month with us with a heart open to giving thanks, and receiving the gifts that gratitude so lavishly bestows. Share your stories of thanksgiving, tell us what you’re grateful for and how it enriches your life, and know that we are grateful for you! AuthorComplete Wellness' blogs are written by Marissa Polselli of Wordtree, LLC. |
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