Resources and Reflections
from Peace by Piece Therapy
Grounded, Not Just Busy: How Simple Rituals Help You Come Home to Yourself
Simple mindful rituals to regulate, ground, and reconnect with your authentic self.
What People Get Wrong About Inner Child Healing (and What to Do Instead)
Inner child healing isn’t about growing up. It’s about tending to your tender, vulnerable parts with compassion through IFS shadow work, and somatic yoga.
Healing Through Play: Why Your Inner Child Needs Joy, Not Just Shadow Work
Playful healing through mindfulness and creativity — reconnecting with your inner child’s joy.
Why Play is Missing from Modern Yoga- And How Joy Helps You Reclaim Your Whole Self
Discover why play is often missing from modern yoga and how bringing it back can unlock joy, healing, and your whole, authentic self.
What If Feeling Stuck Is Just Your Inner Child Saying, “Hey, Remember Me?”
Inner child healing through mindfulness and creativity to release stuckness and rediscover self.
Is Your Nervous System Silencing Your Voice? How the Vagus Nerve Shapes Self-Expression and Trauma Healing
Ever feel like your voice disappears when you try to speak up? Discover how the vagus nerve shapes self-expression, how trauma blocks your voice, and somatic tools to help you heal and reclaim your true self. Your voice deserves to be heard.
From Shame to Self-Expression: How the Body Holds Back- and How Yoga & Therapy Help You Speak Again
Shame impacts more than your thoughts- it shapes your body and voice. Learn how somatic therapy and yoga help you heal and express your authentic self. (pictured) Women releasing emotion through yoga practice and somatic healing.
When Sadness Hides: Why Repressing Emotions in Therapy Slows Healing
Somatic therapist helping a woman reconnect with her emotions during therapy
Why Mothering Yourself Feels So Hard When You Have Anxiety and Trauma
Struggling to mother yourself? Learn why anxiety, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation make self-care feel impossible- and how healing begins.
Why You Feel So Overwhelmed: Understanding Anxiety, Trauma, and Your Nervous System
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP and RYT200, looks at overwhelm and discusses how anxiety and trauma affect your nervous system- and how therapy and somatic practices can help.
Why Grief is Essential in Healing Trauma and Anxiety: How Somatic Yoga, Breathwork, and IFS Therapy Help You Move Through Pain
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP, RYT200 explores grief as a sacred part of healing trauma, and through somatic yoga, breathwork, and therapy, women can gently reconnect with their bodies and begin to transform pain into peace.
Mindfulness in Minutes: How Even 60 Seconds Can Shift Your Day (and How to Start Today)
Jessica Hooper, CYT 200, RMT 100, explores how even 60 seconds of mindfulness can create meaningful shifts in your well-being and shares simple steps to start your practice today.
Empathy vs. Compassion: Understanding the Difference for Deeper Healing
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP and RYT 200, discusses ways to prevent empathic distress through compassionate healing.
Is Your Nervous System Working or Overworking? A New Way to Understand Stress and Healing
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP writes about advocating for seeing our nervous system differently through our language of regulated versus dysregulated.
The Power of Self-Love: How Mindfulness and Therapy Can Heal Anxiety and Trauma
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP and RYT 200 shares easy and quick practices of self-kindness to embody self-love as healing.
How to use somatic yoga for trauma healing and anxiety relief
Somatic yoga poses for anxiety relief and trauma healing
Wintering- connecting with your soul
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP and RYT 200 discusses how to hibernate well this winter season