Walking in Balance Blog

I have created this blog as a place to reflect on my personal and professional journey towards wellness. As a counselor and a yogi, I also will reflect on how these lessons can be used to help others on their own journeys. Some posts will also include creative directives for use with clients in a counseling practice as well.

I named my private practice, Walk in Balance, after the Cherokee saying, Walk in Balance and Beauty. Many indigenous spirituality beliefs (including Native and Cherokee) is about finding balance as a state of finding peace and harmony with oneself, nature, and the universe. I have always been drawn to these teachings in both Native and Buddhist philosophies. Mindfulness and yogic philosophy are important tools that I use both personally and clinically, forming the basis of my approach in my existential counseling approach.

"Balance is the key to everything. What we do, think, say, feel, they all require awareness.
And through awareness, we can grow." -Koi Fresco 
 
In other words, balance is called Good Medicine. When we are suffering physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, or spiritually, we are in a state of disequilibrium or imbalance. When we are imbalanced, illness occurs. To walk in beauty is to have faith in the healing process, to have faith in oneself, finding your own unique and inner beauty, acting in accordance with natural and universal laws: doing the right thing at the right time for the right reason.

These healing values include:
  1. Finding harmony within oneself.
  2. Finding harmony with others.
  3. Feeling gratitude and expressing generosity.
  4. Passing on lessons learned to others.
  5. Finding a balance between reflecting on the past to honor it, planning for the future, but staying centered in the present.
  6.  Finding strength in flexibility: taking life as it comes and accepting where you are at right now.
  7. Agreeing to and continuing only in those things which make you happy and/or bring you fulfillment. 
  8. Care for your present needs - what you need in every moment. 
  9. Listen carefully to others, as well as yourself.
  10. Speak with intention and kindness, always.
I have found, both personally and professionally, that living with these healing values makes what feels impossible, possible. I hope that this blog inspires others to find their own healing paths or to keep moving on the healing paths that they have already started.

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