Resources and Reflections
from Peace by Piece Therapy

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

Self Preservation is the ultimate Self Care
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP and RYT 200 breaks down the myth of self-care

The “Unburdened System” of disordered eating
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP writes on the unburdened internal system when it comes to food and body.

The Burdened Food and Body Internal System
Leslie Slemmons, LISW-CP writes on the burdened internal system when it comes to food and body.

Sitting in the body when it’s difficult- for those with Eating Disorders
Leslie Slemmons, IFS Level 1 Therapist and Yoga Teacher discusses eating disorders and meditation

Being in Your Body as Movement, Rest, and Self-Care
Leslie Slemmons, licensed clinical social worker and yoga therapist, shares ways to be in your body through movement, rest, and self-care.

Internal Family Systems
Leslie Slemmons, licensed clinical social worker and Level 1 IFS therapist shares basic information about Internal Family Systems.

A Language That Can Help You Understand Your Emotions- Somatics
Understand how somatic therapy can help support the mind body connection to help release trauma and gain further inner freedom.

Marginalized. Being ignored by society
Learn how to support individuals during Marginalized Mental Health Month through practicing decolonizing mental health.

Caregivers and embodied transformation
An introduction to embodied transformation with licensed therapist Leslie Slemmons from Bluffton, South Carolina.

Mindset practices to prepare for childbirth
Prepare your body and mind for childbirth with three Somatic practices from a trained yoga and therapist.

Celebrate Asian American Awareness Month: how to create an inclusive therapy practice
Leslie Slemmons, certified yoga therapist from Bluffton, South Carolina, shares her ideas on inclusive therapy and Asian American Awareness Month

4 ways yoga can support childbirth
Leslie Slemmons, certified yoga therapist from Bluffton, South Carolina, guides pregnant women with practical prenatal support through yoga.

How to tell if you’re burned out
Leslie Slemmons, certified yoga therapist from Bluffton, South Carolina, explores the concept of burnout and how to identify if your stress or anxiety is rooted in burnout.