Miller Counseling Services, P.C.

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Looking for Nourishment, Respite and Healing?

Retreat With Us!

Join us in Durham, North Carolina, for an in-person or virtual retreat that offers nourishment, healing, and transformation for practitioners and individuals alike. Engage in a deeply immersive experience with somatics, breathwork, creative arts, and more, all within a supportive community dedicated to reconnecting with ourselves, others, and the earth.

We describe the workshop on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDp2eGAt2I&feature=youtu.be

Learn more and Register Here: https://paulascatoloni.com/retreats/embodied-step-into-you-one-day-retreat/

If you want to explore creativity as a spiritual/personal growth process through the practice of SoulCollage(R), I have a few spaces available for my day retreat workshop this weekend, Saturday September 21st at Heart2Hands Gallery and Studios in Clayton. It is such wonderful creative practice for us to have. SoulCollage(R) teaches us a lot about our life journey. I have used this creative practice for many years for myself. I would love to teach it to you! This particular workshop is about finding life balance and exploring the 7 chakras of the body by connecting with the messages of animal kingdom. We will be making SoulCollage(R) cards as seeds for your uniquely own collaged card deck. This creative practice, once learned, will be there for you to provide guidance and is fun and easy to do! This will be at Heart2Hands Art Gallery and Studios in Clayton! If you have not been to Heidi’s gallery yet, you are in for a treat too! So many wonderful local artists’ works are represented there! And the studio we use for the workshop is lovely and sunshine- filled! Check it out here. It’s not too late to register!

​Finding Life Balance with SoulCollage®: Celebrating Fall Equinox Under the Harvest Moon - Art Workshops - Heart2Hands Art Gallery & Studios Instructor: Susan Miller, PhD, LCMHC, NCC Expressive Arts Therapist, Mixed Media Artist, Creativity Coach, SoulCollage® Facilitator Whether you are just starting or are seasoned in making SoulCollage® cards, you will love this celebration of Fall retreat! No art experience necessary. The Fall Equi...

Looking forward to FALC’s 2024 Yearly Juried show in Cary at Page Walker and the Mayton. Looking forward to the artist reception 9/8 Sunday 2-4pm at Page Walker. Come on out and see the art!!!

I don’t expect anyone to have to believe like me.

The way you look at things is not simply a private matter. Your outlook actually and concretely affects what goes on. When you give in to helplessness, you collude with despair and add to it. When you take back your power and choose to see the possibilities for healing and transformation, your creativity awakens and flows to become an active force of renewal and encouragement in the world. In this way, even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation in a broken, darkened world. There is a huge force field that opens when intention focuses and directs itself toward transformation.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Lahinch, Co Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

A very interesting quote.

Any doors need to close in your life.

There are still some spots available for my Dreaming Under the Full Harvest Moon: Vision Boarding with Reiki-Infused Yoga Nidra workshop at Current Wellness in Downtown Raleigh on October 7, Saturday! Come to the calm and connect with your intentions for this powerful transition into Fall. This is like a mini-new year where you are able to really go deep into what you are desiring for your future. The Full Harvest Moon was September 29th, and we will still be in the energy of this beautiful transitional time just after the Fall Equinox. We will start by making Full Moon vision boards, ending with relaxing Yoga Nidra infused by the warm energy of Reiki. You will leave with a shift in your spirit, embracing the Fall season and your life with purpose.
I am getting all the goodness ready for you! Everything Moon!!!
https://currentwellnessraleigh.com/events/dreaming-under-the-full-harvest-moon/

All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. Transience turns everything to air. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense. Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happens to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost. This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience. This is probably why the soul never surfaces fully. The intimacy and tenderness of its light would blind us. We continue in our days to wander between the shadowing and the brightening, while all the time a more subtle brightness sustains us. If we could but realize the sureness around us, we would be much more courageous in our lives. The frames of anxiety that keep us caged would dissolve. We would live the life we love and in that way, day by day, free our future from the weight of regret.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)

Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Galway, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

WRITE ME DOWN

If one day I don’t remember, do not feel helpless, my love.
You will have much work to do.
You must remember me enough for both of us….

Write me down.

Put the things that make me ‘me’, in a beautiful box, with my treasured photos and my joyous memories.
Build my essence whole again with pictures, words, music, recipes.
The things which sparked my spirit.

If one day I begin to fade, my love, do not feel hopeless.
Put yourself straight to this task.

I was very much here, so very much alive, you know that better than anyone.
You know me enough for the world, so tell the world who I am.

Because if I have forgotten me, it is vital that you don’t.

Remember me, my love, remember all of me, enough for two…
And then I won’t be gone.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘wild hope’ 🩶
UK: https://amzn.eu/d/eDGFsCs
US: https://a.co/d/h6FEaTv

ART: NIKKI DAWES

If you allow yourself to be the person that you are, then everything will come into rhythm. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessing in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love, rather we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara, 25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

Yay to this woman who is following her dreams! May she be an inspiration to listen to your heart!

Hey y’all! I wanted to take a moment and re-introduce myself. My name is Brit Guerin (she/they), and I’m the co-founder and co-owner of .

I don’t have a business background 🤷🏼‍♀️; but rather a background in fitness and mental health. I absolutely love teaching movement and embodiment classes; as well as working with clients via my private practice. It’s an absolute honor to get to do this work.

I decided to take a huge risk 🫣and start the Current back in 2019 because I saw a huge need for inclusive fitness and wellness spaces. I envisioned a space where people in larger bodies and/or folks with an eating disorder history could come to move their body in an affirming space and community. A space where we could redefine movement that is liberating and life-giving rather than punitive and restrictive.

I also wanted to create a movement space where folks could focus on quality movement rather than competition or movement for aesthetic reasons. This is important to me because I’ve been down a road where I was moving my body too much and too intensely, for unhelpful reasons. I was burnout and unwell. After learning about Health at Every Size (TM), I began redefining movement for myself. I’ve grown and healed so much with this new lens on wellness. And because joyful and intuitive movement was life changing for me, I wanted to share this with our community.

Fortunately, my amazing partner agreed to take this risk with me. He also has zero background in business 🤷🏻‍♂️but he believed in me and believes in our mission. (Nothing you can’t Google, amiright?)

While I had this vision, it’s our team and community who make this happen. As you may know, we cannot fight diet culture alone. Everyone on our team and each member support our mission of body liberation and intuitive movement. Our space simply wouldn’t be what it is without the humans who occupy it. Thank you for believing in and supporting this mission. I hope that our space can continue to be a place a refuge from systems that tell us we are more worthy when we are small. Here’s to continuing to take up space, together. 💛

photo via

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
How much disease it has fought off.
How many times it could have failed but battled on,
how many ways it could have broken but did not.

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
And each day it has done this amazing job,
without your help,
without your approval,
your acceptance,
your kindness.

Each day it has soldiered on,
regardless of the constant stream of negativity,
pulsing its way from your brain to your cells.
Not good enough.
Not attractive enough.
Not the right shape.

Perhaps it’s time to see your body for what is truly is,
An amazing and mind-blowingly competent machine.
To get your soul to where it needs to be in this life.
To let you live.

I wonder if you know,
how much better you would be as a team.
I wonder.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I Knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ

Art by Plus Love Designs (you can buy on etsy, this artist’s work is magical)

Where did your summer plans of self care go? Did you just realize the summer is rapidly passing by and you still haven’t prioritized your own needs? Have you felt like you somehow have lost yourself in the summer heat? Come to the quiet…the calm…a time of creative immersion…a day retreat on August 5th Gathering Summer Wisdom with the Creative Practice of SoulCollage(R) where you can take a deep dive into the 4Rs: Reflection, Release, Restoration and Renewal. You will leave refreshed and aware of what YOU need after learning how to tap into your inner wisdom from creating SoulCollage(R) cards with your facilitator, Susan Miller - Artist at Art Gallery and Art Studio in Clayton, just a heartbeat from the Raleigh area!
Lighted Path Coaching & Art Studio
Register here: https://lightedpathcoaching.org/soulcollage-workshops/

OR

https://heart2hands.art/art-classes/SoulCollage%C2%AE-Day-Retreat-with-Susan-Miller-PhD-p544454600